Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you. "

Related Quotes:

" I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater. "

" In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially. "

" The Internet is a big distraction. "

" Touch a scientist and you touch a child. "

" Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've done it all, and yet we don't take credit for it. "

" Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall. "

" I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her? "

" The important thing is to be in love with something. "

" If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you. "

" The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love. "

" I never ask anyone else's opinion. They don't count. "

" I have fun with ideas; I play with them. "

" I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. "

" I don't do research. I never have. "

" Everything is generated through your own will power. "

" I don't believe in colleges and universities. "

" The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible. "

" If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way. "

" I'm not a futurist. "

" I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring. "

" Why go to a machine when you could go to a human being? "

" You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do - and they don't. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don't want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who's the bore of all time. "

" If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it. "

" Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for. "

" Books are alive, you see. They're not dead, they're alive. "

" We've gotta reinvest in space travel. We should've never left the moon. "

" It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness. "

" Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down. "

" When you're older you want to learn from other people. "

" My goal is to entertain myself and others. "