Briskin Quotes

#1. I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once, when I was number one on the bestseller list, I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.

Jacqueline Briskin

#2. Each of us encounters many diverse experiences that make us grow and transform, but we seek to return to our roots, which is quietude.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#3. Great teams have players who understand their responsibilities.

Bruce Brown

#4. The challenge in scoring a sequel is, how do you not get bored? The only way around that one is to go, "Okay, let's throw everything out that we had before and let's just see it as an autonomous movie, and let's just start again."

Hans Zimmer

#5. But knowing about someone doesn't equate to knowing them.

Kasie West

#6. Anybody can have a life. Careers are hard to come by.

Jay Leno

#7. It takes most of us a long time to learn our craft. So keep at it. Don't give up.

Jacqueline Briskin

#8. Midway through, a fuzzy-chinned young man approaches the desk with a battered copy of Dune and a motley handful of coins. Mo waves him away. Oh, just take it, Felix. Spend the money on a haircut.

Robin Sloan

#9. To me, the act of writing itself is infinitely more important than any success I have achieved through it. Not that I'm knocking success, but after all, I'm the person locked in front of my TRS 80 anywhere from eight to twelve hours a day.

Jacqueline Briskin

#10. Don't take anyone else's definition of success as your own. (This is easier said than done.)

Jacqueline Briskin

#11. The object of all life is development; and everything that lives has an inalienable right to all the development it is capable of attaining

Wallace D. Wattles

#12. Today, the real England sometimes feels like 50 million people driving around a motorway forever.

Paul Kingsnorth

#13. Little did I conceive of the greatness of the defeat (at Bull Run), the magnitude of the disaster which it had entailed upon the United States. So short-lived has been the American Union, that men who saw it rise may live to see it fall.

William Howard Russell