Staff Writer Quotes

#1. A lot of the traditional sitcom stuff I did - I think I could have gone that route when I was younger as a staff writer, and I just didn't want to.

Brian Posehn

#2. I majored in Southern history in college, and much of my early work at my first job - as a staff writer at 'Memphis' magazine - focused on race relations.

Hampton Sides

#3. I was working for Time-Life Books from 1962 to 1970, as a staff writer, and after that, I was a journalist. Eventually, I became an editor at 'The Saturday Review' and 'Horizon.'

Edmund White

#4. My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father.

Charles Kuralt

#5. When you think about it, we're strapping strange planks of wood to our feet and launching off of giant snow walls. It's pretty intense.

Shaun White

#6. I'm on a seafood diet - I see food, I eat it.

Dolly Parton

#7. No man was ever great by imitation.

Samuel Johnson

#8. I do not try to dance better than anyone else. I only try to to dance better than myself.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#9. I've hung out in the writer's room a few times, but the fact is we've got such a good writing staff, I don't want to get my peanut butter fingerprints on anything.

Patton Oswalt

#10. He who is great must make humility his base. He who is high must make lowliness his foundation. Thus, princes and kings in speaking of themselves use the terms "lonely," "friendless," "of small account." Is not this making humility their base?

Laozi

#11. The only way to see everything, my dear, is to see it absolutely.

Sherry Lynn Ferguson

#12. The self is the resultant of the interest of the genes.

Eric Baum

#13. My books are just pure escapism for kids.

Dav Pilkey

#14. Nabhan's forecasts nailed three of the largest seismic events on the West Coast in 1996.

Erin Aubry Kaplan

#15. O'Neill presents a very complex multi-layered kind of challenge. His characters are always deeply complex and, to a great extent, inaccessible.

Gabriel Byrne

#16. In every different house, the same things are spoken, the same lies are said, the same dreams are dreamed!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#17. Spend less time on social media and more time reading and writing.

James Gary Vineyard