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It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#eighteen #me #months #takes #usually

When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#into #lake #lovely #peace #profoundly

If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#make #none #reason #sense #some

I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#book #charts #diagrams #draw #elaborate

I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#arts #been #cartoonist #else #extended

I've never related to the work geek at all-it sounds much more horrible than nerd. Like a freak biting a chicken's head off in a sideshow. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#chicken #freak #geek #head #horrible

I've always liked Saturn. But I also have some sympathy for Pluto because I heard it's been downgraded from a planet, and I think it should remain a planet. Once you've given something planetary status it's kind of mean to take it away. ↗

— Jared Leto

#always #away #because #been #given

Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision. ↗

— Oscar Levant

#i #indecision #make #make up #mind

It's nice if people ask to use your song. You have to make a decision as an artist how you feel about that. ↗

— Jared Leto

#artist #ask #decision #feel #how

Teens are always shown as one dimensional. They're stereotyped. When I was in high school, I cared about more than getting a date or making the team. ↗

— Jared Leto

#always #cared #date #dimensional #getting