Creators
Film — Animated
"You know, it's funny how...wrong an artist can be about his own work. Now, the one composition of Tchaikovsky's that he really detested was his Nutcracker Suite, which is probably the most popular thing he ever wrote."
— Deems Taylor, Fantasia
Film — Live-Action
Milo: If they're so great, how come they're not tearing up the charts, babe?
Rex: Because you never play them, babe. You suck.
Rex: Because you never play them, babe. You suck.
— Airheads
Real Life
Readers choose which books and stories they'll care about most and remember best, and if I am remembered only for a novel I wrote in 1984, and not for the better books I wrote after that, I'm not going to complain: Writers are lucky if readers care about and remember any of their works, and a writer is a fool if he criticizes his readers for liking the wrong book.
The worse it is, the better it sells.
—Lou Reed, attributed.
I thought the finished product a rather humdrum folktale told in pedestrian language, certainly miles from the Hawthorne story I liked so much. When The New Yorker asked to publish it, I was shocked. When it won first prize in the O. Henry Best Short Story competition for 1996, I was convinced someone had made a mistake (that did not keep me from accepting the award, however). Reader response was generally positive, too. This story is proof that writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.
— Stephen King, afterward on "The Man in the Black Suit."
Poe believed himself a poet, and only a poet, but circumstances led him to write short stories, and those short stories, whose writing he was resigned and that he had to face as occasional tasks are his immortality.
"Surely I've written better things."
— Ludwig van Beethoven, about his "Moonlight Sonata"
It's actually kind of fun and funny that i will, i will, you know, spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on shows, and the biggest memes that come out of these, this channel, is like i found an onion ring in my french fries, and I'm the guy from the among us sus guy.
