By : Willard Scott 0 Likes
I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
By : Doris Lessing
My father was a Presbyterian minister, working among the poor in West Virginia. He had taken what amounted to a vow of poverty when he accepted that call and so we never had much money.
By : James Green Somerville
Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure.
By : George Sand
Pray a little more, work a little harder, save, wait, be patient and, most of all, live within our means. That's the American way. It's not spending ourselves into prosperity or taxing ourselves into prosperity.
By : Mike Huckabee
I used Jimmy to give me what I needed to keep going and to know that I was on the right path with it. I thought I saw Jimmy's soul all the time we worked. He never covered his soul and I never covered mine. We saw into each other's souls, very definitely.
By : Kim Novak
At one point I took on a new job, and I just didn't have time to do anything but work.
By : Sharon Olds
The same historical development that turned the citizen into a client transformed the worker from a producer into a consumer.
By : Christopher Lasch
I kind of have a happy magnet. I can't stand being depressed, so I work my ass off to get out of it as soon as possible.
By : Sarah McLachlan
The Dewey decimal system really works. So that's all I needed to know. Elementary school taught me that.
By : Michelle Rodriguez
Toby not being there doesn't bother me, I mean I can work with anybody as long as we get along and as long as they've got an understanding of what I want and what I'm aiming for. To start with, when he left, it was difficult.
By : Jay Kay
I think ethnic and regional labels are insulting to writers and really put restrictions on them. People don't think your work is quite as universal.
By : James Welch