A. J. Burnett Quotes

You know, one wonderful thing that came out of my Enquirer experience is that, in my case, it was ruled tabloids are magazines. Which means they didn't have the protection that a newspaper has.

I don't eat much meat, fish, or poultry.

The plateau of Mexico is 8,000 feet high, and that of Puebla 9,000 feet.

At sunset we are rattling through the streets of the little town of Cordova.

We were very kindly received by the English merchants to whom my companion had letters, and we set ourselves to learn what was the real state of things in Mexico.

During the Tertiary period the whole valley of Mexico was one great lake.

The mug from the washstand was used as Becky's tea cup, and the tea was so delicious that it was not necessary to pretend that it was anything but tea.

a person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone.

I pretend I am a princess,so that I can try and behave like one.

People who have power respond simply. They have no minds but their own.

When I die, people will say it is the best thing for me. It is because they know it is the worst. They want to avoid the feeling of pity. As though they were the people most concerned!

There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents.

The most original novelist now writing in English.

Keep it simple. Let's do the obvious thing -the common thing- but let's do it uncommonly well.

Rarely have I seen any really great advertising created without a certain amount of confusion, throw-aways, bent noses, irritation and downright cursedness.

Plan the sale when you plan the ad

If you are writing about baloney, don't try and make it Cornish hen, because that's the worst kind of baloney there is. Just make it darn good baloney.

I believe that superior creative work always has been, is, and always will be the hub of the wheel in any successful agency

Too many ads that try not to go over the reader's head end up beneath his notice.

You've heard the saying, 'Analysis creates paralysis.' You can't be 100 percent sure of anything.

I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith.

You have to treat every hour of television you're given like a $100 million movie, and with 'A.D.,' we stepped it up even a stage further.

I've seen a study in the last year that digital sound actually induces stress in the listener.

Technology changes nothing.

You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.

It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.

Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.

I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on.

I don't remember a time when I wasn't waiting for a scab either to grow or to fall off my knee.

I think the hardest thing to do in the world, show-business-wise, is write comedy.

What I like to write about is stuff I know. I don't think I could write a novel. I don't think I have it in me to come up with those kinds of characters.

I have a great memory.

Heraldry is the fusion of fact and fancy, myth and manner, romance and reality. It is an exuberant union of family, art, and history.

I always wanted to do a story on the blues that not only reflected its nature and its content, but also alludes to the form itself…In short, a story that gives you the impression of the blues.

When you've lived through the golden age of photojournalism, there's no point in being nostalgic.

I hate being away, but I understand that for me, that's where the work, the stories are.

We have to be willing to do whatever it takes to win.

death is always sudden however long one waits.

The short story ... is the most democratic of all the arts; anyone may tell a story, and if it is an absorbing one someone will listen.

I am ill at ease with people whose lives are an open book.

Dear, dear, the miniature world of the family! All the emotions of mankind seem to find a place in it.

I naturally wanted to be saved, so when I came home I told my mom I wanted to be confirmed. That's the way I related to it, being raised an Episcopalian. I went to Dallas and got confirmed.

Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, but people don't know what it is like or how to make it.

There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

What I do when I write is I just write the way I would tell it, so it comes out just exactly the way I would talk to you.

Have you noticed that all you need to grow healthy, vigorous grass is a crack in your sidewalk? Having a baby is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.

As far as sitcoms go, I thought Jenna Elfman in 'Dharma and Greg' was a wonderful physical comedienne who had great timing.

Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.

There was no romance about the mosquitos, however.

We wonder, what if we got rid of cash? After all, cash is what keeps terrorists, drug dealers and gun dealers in business.