It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much.
One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.
Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.
Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult?
Oh! I'm stupid as well as insane.
Where everyone else sees a straight line, you see a maze, and when I'm done talking to you, the maze starts to make more sense --Reply by Dove to Aly's silent inquiry
Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them before that. For one thing, they'll read thicker books. Besides, has anybody looked at the news or read the newspapers recently?
I try to make music that's really real. I've always liked music that makes me feel something. I'm not a brain first, music second person.
Practice random acts of kindness. . . and watch Mom!
When you write a show, you just never know if it will have a future or if the show will end up ever having a production, but, that doesn't mean that the songs - the best of the best songs - can't be pulled out and put on a CD. And, if the shows that they come from end up happening, then people will regard this as like a quirky little concept recording. And, if the shows don't end up happening, at least the songs will live on in some capacity.
I haven't laughed so much over anything since the hogs ate my kid brother.