Matt Hughes Quotes

#1. What I am arguing, in effect, is that the full democratic system of the second half of the fifth century B.C. would not have been introduced had there been no Athenian empire.

Moses Finley

#2. Matt and Mark (Hughes) used to pound each other on the farm as young boys.

Mike Goldberg

#3. My only want and wish, really, was to tell a good story. I wanted to do good work, tell a good story, and give the character a voice. Those were my only expectations.

Uzo Aduba

#4. Embrace the unpredictable and unexpected. It is the path to the infinitely creative in you.

Deepak Chopra

#5. I don't like LA. The majority just seem to be so artificial. Look at how they worship everything they think is fashionable. Isn't it sick?

Billie Joe Armstrong

#6. Many first-time novelists end up rewriting their first two or three chapters, trying to get them 'just right.' But the point of the first draft is not to get it right; it's to get it written - so that you'll have something to work with.

Matt Hughes

#7. How fine is the mesh of death. You can almost see through it.

Jane Hirshfield

#8. Bill Phillips, one of his successors as chairman, captured the spirit in his mantra: "Work hard. Play hard. Sleep fast.

Kenneth Roman

#9. Writing the first draft is like hitting the beach on D Day. You don't stop to mourn the dead or comfort the wounded. You get off the beach because, if you don't, you'll die there.

Matt Hughes