Quotes About Influence

I hope you don't have friends who recommend Ayn Rand to you. The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky.

Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a constructive way that she never felt the lack.

Everywhere I go, I am asked if I think university stifles writers. My opinion is that it doesn't stifle enough of them.

The isolated imagination is easily corrupted by theory, but the writer inside his community seldom has such a problem.

There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

You can choose what you write but you can't choose what you make live.

With grown people, a road led either to heaven or hell, but with children there were always stops along the way where their attention could be turned with a trifle.

He don't know it's anything he can't know, the old man said. That's his trouble. He thinks if it's something he can't know then somebody smarter than him can tell him about it and he can know it just the same. And if you were to go there, the first thing he would do would be to test your head and tell you what you were thinking and howcome you were thinking it and what you ought to be thinking instead. And before long you wouldn't belong to your self no more, you would belong to him.

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. The Nature and Aim of Fiction

My advice to all parents is beat your children moderately and moderately often; and anything that Wm. Heard Kilpatrick & Jhn. Dewey say do, don't do Ã¢â'¬Â¦

I was always the one in my family that was into make-up and I was always the one teaching my family and friends.

My family background was deeply Christian.

The Carter family history means a lot to me.

I watch my films with my mum and other family members, you know. I also know there are thousands of women who watch my films. I don't want to set wrong examples.

I can't see any value in being a celebrity, famous for being famous.

It was I who made Fellini famous, not the other way around.

There are many examples of great songs that become more famous when they are covered.

I don't want girls to aspire to being famous for the sake of being famous.

There's a definite responsibility that comes with being famous. You shouldn't be able to just dress up and look pretty.

Snooki is famous for absolutely nothing.

I hope we go down in history for being something more than just another famous act that got ripped off.

I don't like the idea of famous people.

I've never been one for crushing on famous people.

I know who famous people are, so I listen to them.