Gagnon Artist Quotes

#1. I try to be as ruthless as possible. I ask myself of each sentence, "Is it clear? Is it true? Does it feel good?" And if it's not, then I rewrite it.

William Manchester

#2. How pleased we are to have our eyes opened but how easily we close them again.

Mark Haddon

#3. I miss Brighton enormously, enormously. There is so much I miss, including rain. I miss the verdant countryside.

Cate Blanchett

#4. And somewhere
out there,
in the river of
addicts,
alcoholics,
wife beaters,
doormats,
overeducated legalized thieves,
fascist police,
and bitter rivalries
someone told me
it's a good city,
and I don't know
what's more frightening

Phil Volatile

#5. A great show means we have to connect; we have to prove to [the audience] that we do something great or blow their socks off, but it has to be with them if it's going to be sustained for any length of time.

Scott Avett

#6. You keep saying that and I keep suggesting a psychiatrist. Maybe it's time you take my advice.

Jocelyn Adams

#7. Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.' ...
But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.'
There's wisdom in wine, goddam it!' I yelled. 'Have a shot!

Jack Kerouac

#8. You don't have to take it out on my typewrite ya' know. It's not the machine's fault that you can't write. It's a sin to do that to a good machine.

Sam Shepard