Chuck Cannon quotes

“The first rule of improv is 'Never say no.' Use it when co-writing. To co-write, you need to be willing to be vulnerable with each other. You need to be stupid with each other.”
-- Chuck Cannon

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“Art does not explain.”
-- Chuck Cannon

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“I'm not listening for song ideas; I'm listening for soul ideas.”
-- Chuck Cannon

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“One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.”

“Nothing makes you feel more stupid than finding out you were wrong when you thought you were loved.”

Source : A.L. Kennedy (2010). “Night Geometry And The Garscadden Trains”, p.20, Random House

“People are stupid. There's a lot of dumb stuff that's successful.”

“We could have made it to the Arizona border in a few more hours if we hadn't been distracting each other with stupid little arguments. Don't get me wrong; I liked J.Lo fine. I've made that bed. But I'm not sure there's a person in the world I could be with twenty-four hours a day for three weeks without getting a little snippy. If I ever meet such a person, I'm marrying them.”

Source : Adam Rex (2013). “The True Meaning of Smekday”, p.302, A&C Black

“Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being.”

“The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.”

“Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.”

“Read. As much as you can. As deeply and widely and nourishingly and ­irritatingly as you can. And the good things will make you remember them, so you won't need to take notes.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction" by A.L. Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.

“Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.”

Source : Twitter post from May 08, 2013

“You don't need vision to be a visionary.”