- Horror
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- Nov 07, 2020
Something Quotes
On possibility and ideas that don't fit a category.
These quotes use 'something' to point at ideas that resist easy labels: a genre dismissed as less than serious, alliances formed for practical reasons, and cultural needs that never fit a fixed category. For more, see our Doing quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Go For It
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I see something, I go for it.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
Elvis was, at least the times I was around him, Elvis was a practical joker. He was always, had some little mischievous something going.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote my first play because I wanted to try directing something, and I couldn't afford the rights - it was an adaptation of a book called 'The Wave' by Morton Rhue.
- Story
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- Nov 07, 2020
So I'll write it, and then I'll find out that I actually wrote something that is utterly useless. You can't use it in the story and it doesn't fit. So I just throw it away. I've done that countless times.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Since I was 21, I have not been able to sleep past 9 A.M.; I just want to get up and do something.
- Found
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- Nov 07, 2020