“Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.”
~ Chaz Bono, b. 4 March 1969
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Jean Harlow (b. Mar 3): “I like to wake up each morning feeling a new man.”
3 Mar
“I like to wake up each morning feeling a new man.”
~ Jean Harlow, b. 3 March 1911
Margaret Atwood: “Writing is not a job description.”
1 Mar
“Writing is not a job description. A great deal of it is luck. Don’t do it if you are not a gambler because a lot of people devote many years of their lives to it (for little reward). I think people become writers because they are compulsive wordsmiths.”
~ MARGARET ATWOOD
Javier Bardem (b. Mar 1): “I don’t see this heart-throb thing.”
1 Mar
“Really, I don’t see this heart-throb thing at all.”
~ Javier Bardem, b. 1 March 1969
Gloria Steinem: “Writing is the only thing…”
28 Feb
“Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.”
~ GLORIA STEINEM
Brian Jones (b. Feb 28): “We piss anywhere, man.”
28 Feb
“We piss anywhere, man.”
~ Brian Jones, b. 28 February 1942
John Updike: “Reserve an hour or more a day to write.”
27 Feb
To young writers, I would merely say, “Try to develop actual work habits, and even though you have a busy life, try to reserve an hour or more a day to write.” Some very good things have been written on an hour a day… So, take it seriously and just set a quota.
Try to think of communicating with some ideal reader somewhere. Try to think of getting into print. Don’t be content just to call yourself a writer and then bitch about the crass publishing world that won’t run your stuff. We’re still a capitalist country, and writing to some degree is a capitalist enterprise, when it’s not a total sin to try to make a living and court an audience.
“Read what excites you,” would be my advice, and even if you don’t imitate it you will learn from it… I would like to think that in a country this large – and a language even larger – that there ought to be a living in it for somebody who cares, and wants to entertain and instruct a reader.
~ JOHN UPDIKE
Tennessee Williams: “Honest writing cannot be separated from the writer.”
26 Feb
“If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.”
~ TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
Johnny Cash (b. Feb 26): “Success is worrying about everything except money.”
26 Feb
“Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.”
~ Johnny Cash, b. 26 February 1932
Chelsea Handler (b. Feb 25): “I didn’t become a comedian to work this hard.”
25 Feb
“I didn’t become a comedian to work this hard.”
~ Chelsea Handler, b. 25 February 1975
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