A Quote by Carl Sandburg

I'm either going to be a writer or a bum.

Carl Sandburg

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Bum Either Going Writer

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Carl Sandburg
American - Poet
January 6, 1878 - July 22, 1967

If I am honest with myself, a not-insignificant fraction of my enjoyment of any episode of 'Game of Thrones' is delivered in its opening moments. I sit down, settle in, and... BUM-bum, bah-dah-BUM-bum.

Robin Sloan

I could do with losing a few pounds off my bum, but I enjoy my social life and going out for dinner far too much to have the nicest bum in the world.

Emily Atack

No one wants to be a rake, it's not attractive. Boys like a bum. Even I've got a bit of a bum.

Megan McKenna

I do a bit of work on my bum, but, like, I don't have a Dylan Bruce bum.

Jordan Gavaris

When I started in comics, people were always trying to classify me as either/or. Either a writer who appealed to women or a writer who appealed to guys. This need to categorize was just exhausting.

Gail Simone

If you are going to be a writer, you have to have self-belief, every writer gets rejections, they say the difference between a successful and unsuccessful writer is an unsuccessful writer gives up, if you keep going you will succeed.

Anthony Horowitz

As a ski bum and someone who came up in a ski bum family, I understand the essence of what Colorado is all about.

Grace Potter

The only surgery I've had is my lips, I haven't had anything in my bum - I don't need to, I've got a big bum!

Megan McKenna

I was a snowboard bum and a climbing bum.

Jason Momoa

If you're going to come wanting to work really hard, you're never going to bum me out.

Dito Montiel

I knew I wasn't going to be a rocket scientist - let's not be fools - but I wasn't going to be a bum.

Mr. T

When you're in the States and you're a writer and you've got money and you walk into a bank, you're a bum with money.

Norman Spinrad

I think Bhutanese food - long dissed by every food writer out there - has gotten a bum rap.

Hanya Yanagihara

Any adjective you put before the noun 'writer' is going to be limiting in some way. Whether it's feminist writer, Jewish writer, Russian writer, or whatever.