Ifs Quote by Horton Foote Download Open image “When you're a writer, you have to write these stories, even if you don't get paid” — Horton Foote ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ifs Inspirational Love Paid Stories Write Write Stories Writer Writer Write Writing
If you can still write in spite of the fact that you're not getting paid, that nobody cares about what you're writing, that nobody… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
That's the thing about the writer's life is that you have to have self-discipline. Otherwise you'll never get paid. — Eric Heisserer Copy Share Image
Writers sometimes are paid a great deal of money, but much more frequently they're not paid or are paid only a little bit. — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write. — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
If you like to tell stories and compose sentences, and if you work hard at being good at these things, then you are a… — Trenton Lee Stewart Copy Share Image
It might be more difficult because you haven't got a book or a prop, but for the most part I like to write unpaid...… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
That's the advantage of being a writer: No matter what happens, as long as you survive it, it goes into the work. — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if… — Joyce Maynard Copy Share Image
There is not an amount of money that a writer can earn that I can't blow. — David Milch Copy Share Image
I've had a few jobs, but if you want to be a writer, you're better off getting a job that doesn't require that you… — John Cooper Clarke Copy Share Image
I have enormous respect for the human being because they're asked to take on a lot. And I don't think there's any easy solution.… — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
I often write about nonreligious people, and I try to find situations where their sense of humanity is restored or discovered. I think you… — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity.… — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
My mother, twenty-two, was Harriet Gautier Brooks, named for her paternal grandmother, but always called Hallie. My father, twenty-six, was Albert Horton Foote, named… — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
I've lived long enough to know things go in and out of fashion, and things not well received now can be totally reversed years… — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
A writer has an inescapable voice. I think it's inherent in the nature, and I think that we don't control it anymore than we… — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
I believe very deeply in the human spirit, and I have a sense of awe about it. I look around and ask, 'What makes… — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
I don't think I'll ever stop writing. I write almost every day. I'd write plays even if they were never done again. You're at… — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
Early on, I said to myself that I would like to write a kind of moral and spiritual history of a place. It sounds… — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
You have to watch out with my plays. They're like yeast. You think they're one thing, then all of a sudden subtext gets to… — Horton Foote Copy Share Image
Women still, when they have breast cancer, go to work; they still lead their lives. They have to. I just did what I was… — Monica Potter Copy Share Image
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to… — Laurie Helgoe Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
If you restore a car, and you're making money, then you're doing it wrong. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars,… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are. — Ruth Bader Ginsburg Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these… — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
