Work Quotes

It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.

To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.

In order for a long piece of work to engage a novelist over an extended period of time, it has to deal with questions that you find very important, that you're trying to work out.

I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.

But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work.

The storytelling gift is innate: one has it or one doesn't. But style is at least partly a learned thing: one refines it by looking and listening and reading and practice - by work.

I was really more interested in dramatic work, but I thought, 'Well, I guess I could do comedy.'

Quotes by Donny Most

I'd like to work with Justin Bieber. He's talented and he's so young. I know what he's going through. I've lived what he's living through right now. Working with him would complete a circle of sorts for me. And he...

It's a lot of work to keep reinventing yourself and coming up with new stuff, but that's what it takes to be in show business.

With success came an ever-growing burden of responsibility. I lived with a near-constant low-level anxiety that I would make a mistake that would not only threaten my career, but also my brothers' - not to mention the livelihoods of many...

When you record an album and it goes platinum... yeah, you're in the studio and you work hard for months, but it's not like your whole body hurts. Maybe you get a little hoarse and tired. But on 'Dancing With...

Honors and awards are very interesting, and I truly accept them. I have very high regard for what they mean. What they mean is that they're pointing to the work.

It seems to be very clear that each new generation that comes - not only audiences but young bands as well - are very encouraged and enthused and inspired by my work.

'Sunshine Superman' was a pioneering work that for the first time presented a fusion of Celtic, jazz, folk, rock, and Indian music as well as poetry.

Songwriting is a burst of inspiration and then a long bit of work and a tremendous bit of desperation.

I wasn't perfect, although during the '60s, I may have appeared to be. After all, I was partying away there for awhile. From age 17 to 25, I worked only on the outer man, and I did pretty well, but...