"The author O. Henry taught me about the……" — Chuck Jones
"The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birds—the birds were chickens and the flowers dried sunflowers rattling against a wall."
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Chuck Jones
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53 Quotes by Chuck Jones
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We must not confuse distortion with innovation; distortion is useless change, art is beneficial change.
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I'm not a believer in putting designers off in an ivory tower. They need to have a voice at the…
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Comedy is unusual people in real situations; farce is real people in unusual situations.
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Censorship, I believe, is the most dangerous enemy to all human communication, and piety of intention is probably the most…
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When critics sit in judgment it is hard to tell where justice leaves off and vengeance begins.
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The only time a wife listens to her husband is when he’s asleep.
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There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is the willingness to think.
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The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have,…
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When a young artist asked me for advice on drawing the human foot, I told him, ‘The first thing you…
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Painting does what we cannot do—it brings a three-dimensional world into a two-dimensional plane.
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Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to…
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If you make a fool of yourself in front of a cat, he will sneer at you, if you are…
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The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by…
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After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new…
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I have been told by hospital authorities that more copies of my works are left behind by departing patients than…
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There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first…
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Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is the foundation upon which sincere and meaningful repentance must be built. If we…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Once the curtain is raised, the actor is ceases to belong to himself. He belongs to his character, to his…
— Sarah Bernhardt
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You know, we love stories and we love narrative; we love to get lost in an author's world.
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I'm most impressed by the Russian writers, so I love reading the works of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. Another author who…
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If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.
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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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The idea is to become a best-selling author first and then the rest of my books will be slam dunks.
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