#cal

Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#fiction #ironically #marketplace #must #nonfiction

A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all. ↗

— Allen Tate

#any #conditions #history #instance #less

The candidate out front on Labor Day has historically been the one who stayed ahead in November. ↗

— Peter Jennings

#been #candidate #day #front #historically

Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied. ↗

— St. Jerome

#devil #engaged #ever #find #may

And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing, basically. Stealing from us old country boys down here. ↗

— Waylon Jennings

#because #black #country #down #everything

We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective. ↗

— Waylon Jennings

#album #being #called #civil #civil war

Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical. ↗

— Derrick Jensen

#easy #else #everything #just #onto

The real exertion in the case of an opera singer lies not so much in her singing as in her acting of a role, for nearly every modern opera makes great dramatic and physical demands. ↗

— Maria Jeritza

#case #demands #dramatic #every #exertion

A lot of people ask me why I don't expand and explore other musical areas, but I like the plain three- and four-chord rock-and-roll that I call the the semi-blues. ↗

— Joan Jett

#ask #call #expand #explore #i

I leave for the show at least an hour ahead, and I do some vocal warm-ups, and that's pretty much it. ↗

— Joan Jett

#hour #i #i do #least #leave