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- The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you will write.
- Nothing on earth is more gladdening than knowing we must roll up our sleeves and move back the boundaries of the humanly possible once more.
- The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less.
- Take a quick dip, relax with a schnapps and a sandwich, stretch out, have a smoke, take a nap or just rest, and then sit…
- The Pulitzer is more useful than meaningful.
- The gaps are the thing. The gaps are the spirit's one home, the altitudes and latitudes so dazzlingly spare and clean that the spirit can…
- Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me. This is easy to write, easy to read, and hard to believe.
- I woke at intervals until . . . the intervals of waking tipped the scales, and I was more often awake than not.
- I like to be aware of a book as a piece of writing, and aware of its structure as a product of mind, and yet…
- I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else.
- It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a…
- There is always the temptation in life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy friends and meals and journeys for years on end. It is all so…
- There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by. A life of good days lived in the…
- The world is wider in all directions, more dangerous and bitter, more extravagant and bright. We are making hay when we should be making whoopee;…
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- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle