Graham Quote by Robert Gottlieb Download Open image “Most writers are vulnerable and insecure, and Kay Graham was more so than most.” — Robert Gottlieb ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Graham Insecure More Most Than Vulnerable Writers Writing
“It's not that [writers] are pompous jerks. We are insecure. We feel like we're fading away in this vast sea of scriveners.” — William Browning Spencer Copy Share Image
I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good. — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
“And you’re an author?” Richard asked, knowing very well that Graham was indeed G.M. Russell. “I’m sorry, I’m not exactly sure I’ve heard of… — Brittainy C. Cherry Copy Share Image
Just because someone has stylistic limitations doesn't necessarily make them a worse writer. — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
There're so many great writers out there who aren't getting the exposure they deserve. — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable. — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
“...I've been ripped off, lied to, slandered, gossiped about slapped, falsely accused, and had my truths not believed. I've had my heart broken, had… — Jessica Page Morrell Copy Share Image
If writers possess a common temperament, it's that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the recognition they… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
I suppose all writers are crazy, but if they are any good, I believe they have a terrible honesty. — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
“I think the worst way a writer can self-betray is by not being true to his or her experience of being alive. It’s my… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Paul Taylor's 'Offenbach Overtures' has lots of zip and charm, and its pair of dueling soldiers in red, who end up starry-eyed about each… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Jodi Melnick is hotly self-absorbed. Her onstage musicians are much too loud, and like so many narcissistic performers, she goes on much too long:… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
'Porgy and Bess' has never been thought of as a dance show, and yet it's filled with dance. It uses dance to punctuate the… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
We know how Merce Cunningham works and how he thinks - we've been told, over and over again, by him and by others. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
When I was at Cambridge in the early fifties, there was a school nearby for training Army officers in Russian, and some imaginative genius… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Many people say to me, particularly about my dance writing, 'It sounds just like you.' But it sounds just like me after I've made… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
Schumann's 'Quintet in E flat for Piano and Strings' is one of the sublime moments in Romantic music. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
What makes a publishing house great? The easy answer is the consistency with which it produces books of value over a lengthy period of… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
For me, the real pleasure in writing is in having an excuse to pursue my curiosity about people who have meant something to me. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
We have a lot of black Anglo-Saxons. Their skin is black, but their brain is white. When I get real mad at them, I call them 'graham crackers.' — Paul Mooney Copy Share
There's no point pretending that all of Martha Graham's pieces are equally strong. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I work every day until I do not have more to say. I learned from Graham Greene that a very good way is to… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
Family is everything, although I've been fortunate enough to have worked with some of the most amazing minds over the years, including Renzo Piano,… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
My parents were interested in history and the world. My father read Graham Greene and Georges Simenon and was a strong trade unionist and… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
'The Discovery of France' by Graham Robb is teaching me lots about a country I've long loved but realise I didn't really know. — Diana Quick Copy Share Image
For a while we were chasing a book by Graham Greene to do Brighton Rock as a musical. We didn't get the rights, so… — Neil Tennant Copy Share Image
If you'd told the young Graham Norton that I'd one day have this amount of money, I'd have assumed it would have come from… — Graham Norton Copy Share Image
Martha Graham, along with George Balanchine, is one of the two commanding figures in 20th-century American dance. For those much younger than I am,… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“He slipped his hands around my waist and pulled me against him, tossing the ice cream cone over his shoulder. It landed with a splat on the sidewalk. "So does that mean I have a varsity girlfriend?" I giggled like a total girl and linked my hands behind his neck. "Yeah I guess it does." "Sweet." Then he bent his… — Stephie Davis Copy Share
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