“I would like all my friends, followers, fans and fellow travelers to know that I am fighting cancer and will therefore be taking a break from performing while getting the treatment and cure. I shall of course be continuing to write music - in my world it just has to be part of the therapy - and I fully expect to be back in good shape next year.” KnowsWorldWritingYearsFightingCoursesNextBreakFansShapesMy FriendsFellowsCancerCuresTherapyPerformingTreatmentFollowersContinuingTravelerNext YearFighting CancerTaking A BreakFellow Travelers Author:Jon Lord
“I love comedy and I would write things to myself as an exercise in writing. I didn't do well for years, and I quit. I started to break down why I was afraid and started to look at people I admired, like Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Freddie Prinze, George Carlin and all.” PeopleWritingYearsWellsLooksBreakComedyExerciseQuittingBreaking DownI QuitMurphy Author:George Lopez
“When I'm writing, which is 8-9 months out of the year, I'm in a concerted writing pace, where I work 5 days a week for at least a few hours a day, maybe a little bit more. But I won't work for more than 2 hours at a time. I'll work for a couple hours and take a break.” WritingYearsLittlesBitsHoursBreakWeekMonthsCoupleLittle BitPace Author:Amy Ray
“People say I'm not good at writing about men. My dad left when I was 16. Give me a break. I'm doing the best I can.” PeopleMenGivingWritingI CanLeftBreakDadGive MeMy Dad Author:Jennifer Weiner
“We live in a world in which the only utopian visions arrive in commercial breaks: magical visions of an impossibly hospitable world, peopled by bright-eyed attractive men, women, children... Where nobody dies... In my worlds people died. And I thought that was honest. I thought I was being honest.” PeopleMenWorldWritingChildrenDiesVisionBreakHonestDiedBeing HonestAttractiveMen WomenUtopianAttractive Man Author:Neil Gaiman
“Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing.” WritingLawBreakSeriousMakers Author:Louise Mensch
“Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation of writing.” WritingBreakNiceIsolationConventionsProvidingAttending Author:Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
“It's very important, at least to me as a writer, that there be some rules on the table when I'm writing. Rules come from genres. You're writing in a genre, there are rules, which is great because then you can break the rules. That's when really exciting things happen.” WritingImportantHappensBreakExcitingTablesThings HappenGenreExciting Things Author:Lev Grossman