I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next one coming out?
George R. R. Martin
Boy, there are days where I get up and say 'Where the hell did my talent go? Look at this crap that I'm producing here. This is terrible.... →
I can see a scene in my head, and when I try to get it down in words on paper, the words are clunky; the scene is not coming across right. So... →
When the writing is going really well, whole days and weeks go by, and I suddenly realise I have all these unpaid bills and, my God, I haven't... →
I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of these days, but I'll probably never get to them.
Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no... →
Judith Martin
So after being with somebody for any number of days like that, you can't help but feel for them. You can't help them, but you certainly can... →
Wink Martindale
My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.
Groucho Marx
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
Abraham Maslow
I never translated from my days in the Navy to being a congressman.
Eric Massa