“There is nothing like understanding that your work has touched somebody. That is the sole purpose of acting. To be able to move and inspire. If I can do that for one person it is already changing the world and that makes me feel accomplished.” IfsWorldFeelsPersonsI CanAbleMovingPurposeUnderstandingCan DoActingInspireChanging The WorldAccomplishedTouchedSole Author:Scott Cohen
“Titles are very hard. Sometimes a title comes before I start to write the book, but often I finish the book and I still don't have a title. I have to go through the book again and then sometimes I hope a title jumps out at me from what I've written.” WritingStillsBookSometimesHardWrittenTitles Author:Eve Bunting
“I write every day. I don't have a writing schedule. I write when I feel like it. Fortunately I feel like it all the time. I am writing for hours.” FeelsWritingHoursSchedules Author:Eve Bunting
“This is not the time for partisan bickering. This is not the time for politics as usual. Some of us are Democrats. Some of us are Republicans. Some of us are Independents. Above all, we must be Oklahomans first.” FirstsRepublicanDemocratUsualPartisansBickeringOklahomans Author:Brad Henry
“I hope never to retire. I write so many because it's the thing I like to do most - to write. And if you write every day, you just naturally get a lot of books.” IfsWritingBookRetiring Author:Eve Bunting
“I love being an author. I love actual writing, and I love communicating with children. And it keeps me young.” WritingChildrenYoungLove IsCommunicate Author:Eve Bunting
“I always have strong feelings when I'm writing a book. Sometimes when I'm writing a book, I even cry when I'm writing. Once I read a quotation that I thought was very true for me, which is: "No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader."” WritingBookSometimesFeelingsReadingStrongCryTearsReaderQuotationsWriting A BookVery TrueStrong FeelingReadershipTrueness Author:Eve Bunting
“New York is just New York. It's a hard city, it's a hard city to live in. It's a desperate city. It's filled with scam artists and people who are always looking for a way in and a way out and the majority of people have to really negotiate their way through that jungle to get to the other side; the other side being a place of tranquility and peace and home and safety.” PeopleWayHardHomeArtistSidesCitiesNew YorkSafetyMajorityFilledDesperateTranquilityJungleScams Author:Scott Cohen
“I think that when you do any kind of theatrical form, (you can't really do this in the theater) the task as an artist is to reach some form of catharsis yourself, and express something that allows an audience to have some form of catharsis. If there's no discovery in what you do, if there's no struggle in what you do to have that discovery, then, there's no meaning in what you do.” IfsThinkingKindFormArtistAudienceStruggleDiscoveryTasksTheaterTheatricalCatharsis Author:Scott Cohen
“To me good storytelling is about journeys. It's about people's journeys, people's discoveries and how they deal with those discoveries; circumstances that put people in different situations.” PeopleDifferentDealsSituationJourneyCircumstancesDiscoveryStorytellingGood Storytelling Author:Scott Cohen