#apt

It is natural to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes to that siren until she allures us to our death. ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#death #eyes #hope #illusions #indulge

Now some alien force seems to have come and captured the Dodgers. I don't know what happened to my Dodgers. ↗

— Leigh Steinberg

#captured #come #dodgers #force #happened

The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story's flaws before you invest a lot of time writing the first draft, and it's almost impossible to get stuck at a difficult chapter, because you've already done the work to push through those kinds of blocks. ↗

— George Stephen

#already #because #before #benefit #blocks

If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

#because #big #changing #creatively #environment

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#engages #groundwork #heart #lessons #most

Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment. ↗

— Patrick Stewart

#captain #died #fish #lion #moment

For sure I would be a very emotional captain. A very hands-on captain. ↗

— Payne Stewart

#emotional #hands-on #i #sure #very

I very rarely saw Tom Kite around. I've talked to Tom about it. I don't think Michael Jordan needed to be on the captain's cart with Kite; he needed to be walking in the gallery, supporting them from outside the ropes. ↗

— Payne Stewart

#around #captain #cart #gallery #i

If you do enough planning before you start to write, there's no way you can have writer's block. I do a complete chapter by chapter outline. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#block #chapter #complete #enough #i

If you capture the first thought that you have when you're creating, and then play that to people, it's kind of like the listeners are part of that beginning. And that's the most exciting part. ↗

— Joss Stone

#capture #creating #exciting #first #kind