Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money.
Jef I. Richards
Recitation: by Male by Female
There's a lot of ignorance about how long it takes to write a novel. There's a lot of ignorance about how long a novel is in your head before you start to write it.
John Irving
IgnoranceStartLongYouWriteHead
I tend to have an endless number of ideas for writing projects. I don't necessarily say that as a good thing. Maybe it's a good thing, but I have ideas for all kinds of projects: contemporary novels, graphic novels, anything that happens to go through my mind.
Matthew Pearl
GoodMindIdeasWritingGoSay
I care about narrative structure; I care about how stories unfold.
Jeff Nichols
CareStructureNarrativeStoriesHow
There's no such thing as downtime for your brain.
Jeffrey Kluger
BrainYourDowntimeThing
I found one remaining box of comics which I had saved. When I opened it up and that smell came pouring out, that old paper smell, I was struck by a rush of memories, a sense of my childhood self that seemed to be contained in there.
Michael Chabon
MemoriesChildhoodSelfSmellBox
Why did I write 'The Emperor of All Maladies?' A 56-year-old woman with an abdominal sarcoma, having undergone two remissions and a relapse, asked me to describe what she was battling. By the time I had finished answering her, I realised that I had written 600 pages.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
TimeWomanMeWhyWriteShe
Your grandparents came of age in the Great Depression, when everyday life was about deprivation and sacrifice, when the economic conditions of the time were so grave and so unrelenting it would have been easy enough for the American dream to fade away.
Tom Brokaw
LifeAgeGreatTimeDepression
My head is massive. My head is, like, off the charts.
Luke Hemsworth
HeadOffLikeMassiveCharts
So many people are are using the Internet now to watch movies and TV shows online.
Luke Pasqualino
PeopleInternetNowMoviesWatchTV
Nothing in my early childhood suggested to anyone - except maybe my father - that one day I would be standing here and be known simply as Judge Judy.
Judy Sheindlin
FatherDayChildhoodJudgeEarly
For all that has been said of the love that certain natures (on shore) have professed for it, for all the celebrations it has been the object of in prose and song, the sea has never been friendly to man. At most it has been the accomplice of human restlessness.
Joseph Conrad
LoveSeaManSongSaidNever
I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized.
Davy Crockett
DeadWouldRatherThanPolitically
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