L.V. Jones Quotes

Being rejected is not nice, and it never gets any easier no matter where you are in your career.

If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.

I dont get distracted until the weight of other things left undone finally tips the balance; my mind is flooded with calls, bills, supermarkets, letters, and I have to stop and sort things out.

My father was a screenwriter, but he was also a novelist.

Oh, I always think everyone feels left out.

Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.

When Im writing, I spend all my time in The Grocer on Elgin buying ready-made meals; I think they are the only reason my husband and kids havent left me.

When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.

Art is inspiring. Walking into a gallery, or when the lights go up on a stage; that thrill of getting something that has nothing to do with acquisition.

Our minds and memories are crowded with the common experience of nature.

When we're about telling the best possible story, making the best possible book - we're thinking about the reader, rather than about our egos. And then we serve the story. Not the other way 'round.

A picture book is a story told in two languages - word and image. And the illustration is the front door of the book.

In a successful picture book, you always want the voice of the text to match the voice of the art; so that it seems as if the same person writing is the one illustrating and vice versa.

You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.

My criticism hasn't necessarily been informed by the critics I've read. The conversations I've had with friends and fellow musicians have shaped my thinking more than the work of any critic.

Meryl Streep, despite not being a Prime Minister, is reasonably convincing in 'The Iron Lady.'

I was happiest, frankly, when I had a day job and then I went and was in my band that I never, ever had dreams of making money, ever.

The only time I made money was when I licensed my own solo guitar record, which sold maybe seven copies.

I’m always surprised when writers say they don’t believe in a god or religion but they believe in creating a world on two hundred pages using symbols. We’re all worshiping something.

A book is basically just symbols arranged to form this story, this world. But on the other hand, books, novels, literature in general, is what shows us at our most human.

The more we get away from believing and studying literature, the worst we become, the more we lose our soul.

Death is terrifying and beautiful, a final thing we can all do together.

I think literature is somehow both a fantasy and a reality we should all get back to.

I'm a white guy listening to the Cure and thinking about Pynchon influences.

I just want to be able to get onstage and move and move around.

I just want to give my love to God.

I sing because I'm happy.

As for me, I rarely write a song. But when I do write a song, like "Ain't No Chimneys in the Projects," which came to me at three a.m. one morning, on a whim - I get a percentage.

I'm grateful to be alive, because I really did not think I was going to be alive, onstage performing songs.

I know for one thing that alcohol will have no more part in my life.

I never took any kind of vocal lessons or teachings of how to - I never even took piano lessons. And a voice just came to me and said, go play the piano in the church.

You know a man can play the part of a saint just so long for a day comes when his true, his true self unfolds.

Not only do I say, get up and get out, I tell the cancer to get up and get out. And if you don't get up and get out, I'm going to shout you out. And I get to shout.

My fans have written me such kind emails. My management at Daptone helped me heal, too. I'm in a good place.

I remember my sister and I - my big sister would get up on her chair in the kitchen and sing Mary Wells' "What's Easy for Two Is So Hard for One." It was 1966, and I was 10 years old.

I'm not planning on singing too late. Maybe another eight or 10 years is enough before I retire. It would also be great to revisit all these stunning places around the world where I have toured.

Record designers marvel on that stuff. They go back and look at old covers, then make new ones.

I'm blessed to be in an environment where people are sincere.

I really can't wait to dance with Ellen DeGeneres!

[I've worked as a guard at Rikers Island] from 1988 to 1990.

My goal for these next few years, for the next forever, is to try and keep positive things around me. If somebody is coming at me with negative stuff, just back away from me.

I'm coming back to give the people what they want.

Everything I've done and everything I've gained in my life has been with my music.

When I got sick this past summer, I couldn't - my mind just wasn't on music. The rest of the band understood. But once October came, I felt ready to get back again.

Doctors removed my gallbladder and pancreas, which are supposed to break down sugar and alcohol.

Juicing has helped me bring my pressure down. Organic natural foods, too.

I can't eat processed food.

I've got to find local farmers and get natural foods.

I'm going to dress a little different. Those frilly dresses I used to wear on stage, that was the old me.

Maybe I won't have as much energy. And maybe the highs in my voice won't be what they used to be. But exercise is helping me pace myself.