History's greatest composers would be appalled to hear their greatest works reduced to distorted hold music for businesses.
When everyone is famous, no one will be famous.
The key to good writing is to leave Boo Radley in the house until the end of the story.
You will never know loneliness when you have a dog, when you lose that dog it will be loneliness like you've never known.
You don't have to reinvent the wheel... just steal the hubcaps.
I didn't grow up in a Norman Rockwell house... my house was more akin to Norman Lear.
Don't just do what is required, do what is respected then, at you'll know, you did the right thing even if it works out wrong.