Lin Quotes

People who don't like musicals like, 'why are they singing? Why aren't they just talking? If you make the lyric feel really conversational, it's much easier for them to bridge that gap.

We get the job done. So what happens if we win?

I got to holler just to be heard.

My power of speech, unimpeachable. Only 19 but my mind is older.

I'm just like my country. I'm young, scrappy and hungry.

If you think in terms of topping, you're in the wrong business. You can't think that way.

These New York City streets get colder, I shoulder every burden every disadvantage I've learned to manage. I don't have a gun to brandish. I walk these streets famished.

I know the action in the street is excitin' But Jesus, between all the bleedin’ ‘n fightin’ I’ve been readin’ ‘n writin’.

I'm not trying to make something that is difficult to perform every night. It needs to proceed at the speed of that character's thought because that's the only way it's actable.

I loved musicals. I loved being in the school play and being lucky enough to get parts in the school play. But they always took place in some other time and place.

I've had a little Hollywood experience, and there's nothing like the Disney story experience.

My kid gets me out of bed in the morning.

Disney's really incredible on story.

We sort of quickly realized every rhythm, Opetaia [Foa'i] takes the lead.

I came up with the "We are explorers," with sort of a counter-melody to [Opetaia Foa'i] melody. And so, it happened so organically, that it really, to me, is the most emblematic of our collaboration.

To fly, we must have resistance.

Every memorial in its time has a different goal.

It's funny, as you live through something you're not aware of it.

Some of your teachers are actually closer in age to you than you think.

I always say I'm no different than a 19th-century landscape painter, it's just that we have these incredible tools to look at the Earth and look at the world around us differently.

I do not think you can find a reason for everything you make.

You really can't function as a celebrity. Entertainers are celebrities. I'm an architect. I'm an artist. I make things.

I'm not in a hurry to do a lot of projects. I am very resolved in each project I take on.

I was always making things. Even though art was what I did every day, it didn't even occur to me that I would be an artist.

I cannot force a design; I do not see this process as being under my conscious control.

The role of art in society differs for every artist.

The only thing that mattered was what you were to do in life, and it wasn't about money. It was about teaching, or learning.

war is not just a victory or loss ... People die.

The foot can march or it can dance, but it cannot stand still until end-stopped.

If I could write a novel while I'm walking, I probably would.

Heterosexuality - whichever gender you are - says that the other gender is very important to you.

The things that I dislike passionately, I have come to realize, are also part of me.

Poetics is a science for stammering poets.

In the same way, the people whom I most abhor, I abhor them for elements that I abhor in myself.

The poem is not a physical body. It's a textual body that has life only insofar as it can act symbolically. It cannot physically act.

The problem of the female body is not something that I've studied, but my memoir does treat that theme.

You need to be distracted.

No one, evidently, except me has found "No Alarms" poem ironical that an obsessive theme in my writing was - and has continued to be - not being able to write.

This condition [irony] has nothing to do with writer's block, a psychological syndrome, which is one of the few I have not diagnosed for myself!

Sometimes, in my published complaints about not being a writer, I have recalled the prospect - the yearning to be a writer - as it first formed for me.

After Fifty Shades of Grey, I think my writing is pretty tame, isn't it?

You've read some of the poems in this new unpublished book [Walker's Alphabet], e.g., the poem "C." I have a number of poems whose titles are letters of the alphabet: A, B, C, D, E, F.

I do want to do the entire alphabet. There's in [Walker's Alphabet] a poem called "A Life" in that grouping. I was going to change that title to "A."

I only submit the poems I think are the strongest.

I have some weak poems in that new collection, which is why I'm not ready to send the collection out yet.

One arrives at a recognition that one needs to be distracted.

Wouldn't that be wonderful if I could do that? And that way, I could walk with the muse, rather than walk without her. The novel would write itself.

In various memoir pieces, I have traced the trajectory of yearning through decisions made, good and bad, that had somehow kept the ambition on track.

Signs of a maddening system of writing and counting that calibrates the values of something the poet does not yet know. Praxis is therefore poetics.

The city and nature, the built stone and the found stone, concrete and slate, poetry addresses them all democratically.