Own Work Quotes

166 Own Work quotes by 155 unique authors

What I want to tell you today is not to move into that world where you're alone with yourself and your mantra and your fitness… — Joan Didion
Personally, I feel that in my own work I wanted to look programmed or impersonal but I don't really believe I am being impersonal when… — Roy Lichtenstein
I'm so critical of my own work that it's difficult for me to disassociate myself and watch it as an audience. — Tobey Maguire
All I can tell you is that you cannot make choices in your own career, either career choices or choices when you're actually working as… — Brandon Lee
My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books. I've learned that… — Jeff VanderMeer
It's very strange to go from being completely secluded and doing your own work for yourself, to having an audience - and having an audience… — Jhonen Vasquez
Had I to give advice to writers (and I do not think they need it, because everyone has to find out things for himself), I… — Jorge Luis Borges
Read like mad. But try to do it analytically - which can be hard, because the better and more compelling a novel is, the less… — Sarah Waters
I consider that 9/11 was the day when war was started against my own work and against myself. Even though we are not sure of… — Adam Michnik
I am in that glorious position where I can redesign and re-package my own work. — Cameron Mackintosh
There is no truer and more abiding happiness than the knowledge that one is free to go on doing, day by day, the best work… — Robin G. Collingwood
There is probably some long-standing "rule" among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: "When you start stealing from your own work you're in bad… — Hunter S. Thompson
The monopoly capitalists - even while employing purely empirical methods - weave around art a complicated web which converts it into a willing tool. The… — Che Guevara
Naturally, no one knows more about music than musicians. They talk about their own work all the time, but they rarely get to talk about… — Michael Azerrad
I think as long as you're being creative and finding your own work interesting, that's all that matters. — Katy B
I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work. — James Frey
It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's… — Jonathan Franzen
In fact, since no one's been interested in my work, I took the responsibility recently to invest in my own work, so I'm producing a… — Joseph Jarman
I am not one of those guys who pretends not to enjoy his own work. — David Wain
The ability to take pride in your own work is one of the hallmarks of sanity. — Nikki Giovanni

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