Jim Denney > Quotes

“As Jane Austen once wrote in her diary, "I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on till I am." And Madeleine L'Engle observed, "Inspiration usually comes during work rather than before it.”
― Jim Denney, Writing in Overdrive: The Secrets to Writing Faster, Writing Freely, Writing Brilliantly

“That's the way to tour Disneyland, with a complete suspension of disbelief, with a drunken sense of joy and eyes wide with wonder. Let the child inside you come out and play. Laugh and shout! Plunge into the mind and soul of Walt Disney.
---Ray Bradbury”
― Jim Denney, Walt's Disneyland: It's Still There If You Know Where to Look

“Just as writers write the books they always wished they could read, Walt built the playground his inner child had always wanted to explore. Tom Sawyer Island was the tangible fulfillment of all his boyhood wishes.”
― Jim Denney, Walt's Disneyland: It's Still There If You Know Where to Look

“If you want to experience Walt's original Disneyland, Star Tours and Indiana Jones can wait. Slow down and enjoy the sounds of America's past.”
― Jim Denney, Walt's Disneyland: It's Still There If You Know Where to Look

“The original Tom Sawyer Island was perhaps the most deeply personal expression of Walt's own boyhood dreams to be found anywhere in Disneyland. Tom Sawyer Island is the playground Walt wished he could have had as a boy. It's the only attractraction in the Park that Walt himself drew up with his own hands, in his barn on Carolwood Drive.”
― Jim Denney, Walt's Disneyland: It's Still There If You Know Where to Look

“If you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer.”
― Jim Denney, Writing in Overdrive: The Secrets to Writing Faster, Writing Freely, Writing Brilliantly

“Being a writer is a peculiar sort of a job," Neil Gaiman once observed. "It's always you versus a blank sheet of paper — and quite often the paper wins.”
― Jim Denney, Writing in Overdrive: The Secrets to Writing Faster, Writing Freely, Writing Brilliantly

“It was as if those who created the Tarzan makeover didn't grasp the mind of Walt Disney.”
― Jim Denney, Walt's Disneyland: It's Still There If You Know Where to Look

“Walt explained his reason for going to Latin America this way: 'While half of this world is being forced to shout 'Heil Hitler,' our answer is to say, 'Saludos Amigos.”
― Jim Denney, Walt's Disneyland: It's Still There If You Know Where to Look

“Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one." ―Salman Rushdie”
― Jim Denney, Writing in Overdrive: The Secrets to Writing Faster, Writing Freely, Writing Brilliantly