A Quote by Jade Bird

I don't want a middle-aged white man telling me how to write my feelings. It's not gonna work for me.

Jade Bird

Quote Topics

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Quote Author

Jade Bird
English - Musician
Born: October 1, 1997

The last thing reporters and editors want to be told is what to do and how to write. They don't want to be some politically correct, Orwellian, kind of like "you're telling me how to write about...?"

Jose Antonio Vargas

I get letters from people about my work. The thing that pleases me most is that my work touches their feelings. In fact, they don't talk about the paintings. They end up telling me the story of their life or how their father died.

Andrew Wyeth

When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.

Elmer Davis

You will find in me a middle aged man with a career behind me sufficiently brilliant to enable me to talk about many things interestingly; and I am not an unkindly soul, I believe.

George A. Moore

I think it's hilarious when middle-aged white men try to take themselves seriously. It makes me laugh.

Chris Bauer

As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write, I'm gonna write the way I wanna write!

Jacqueline Susann

As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write. I'm gonna write the way I wanna write!

Jacqueline Susann

It amazes me. I'm just a fat, middle-aged, bald guy, but people still want to meet me.

Rick Harrison

I vividly remember my sixth-grade classroom. I remember what it smelled like, where I sat, what I could see out the window, and how I felt about things. Peel away my decrepit middle-aged exterior, and an important part of me is still twelve years old. It helps me when I sit down to write stories for kids.

Rodman Philbrick

I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they help me to be fully alive on this journey, and show me that I must be willing to go where it takes me, even through the valley of the shadow.

Madeleine L'Engle

Of course I want the things I write to reflect well on me or anyone who might feel represented by me, but also, I'm not writing a guidebook on how to be or how my people should be seen. I'm telling very specific stories.

Jenny Zhang

I'm a white, middle-aged, married, middle-class male with kids. I couldn't be disenfranchised if I tried.

Nick Harkaway

I've heard stories of other people that are similar stories to me - their mother or father passing away. People have come out to me on Instagram. It's amazing that they can tell me and confide in me. I always want to take the time and write these long messages telling them how much that means to me.