#aw

There's that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#get #literary #schism #success #unwritten

When I think about writers who use fiction as social commentary and to raise social awareness but who are also very popular, I think of Dickens. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#also #awareness #commentary #dickens #fiction

I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom was going away to college. My relationship with him, which is a very close one, really developed in more recent years. ↗

— David Hyde Pierce

#away #because #by the time #close #college

After the war, prompted by the Cardinal Archbishop of Paris, I entered Parliament so that a priest could speak out for the poor, as canon law at that time still permitted. ↗

— Abbe Pierre

#archbishop #canon #cardinal #could #entered

I used to lie awake at night, willing myself to put in the hard work, the determination, the passion. ↗

— Kevin Pietersen

#determination #hard #hard work #i #lie

In the past I've thrown my wicket away on certain occasions. ↗

— Kevin Pietersen

#certain #i #in the past #occasions #past

Obviously if you are an accountant, a criminal lawyer, a president, or a senator, or if you work in a funeral parlor, you have to wear a tie, but more and more people are wearing very casual clothes. ↗

— Jean Pigozzi

#casual #clothes #criminal #funeral #lawyer

When you take a picture of someone, never show it to them right away. If they don't like it, they may erase it. ↗

— Jean Pigozzi

#erase #like #may #never #picture

If success attends my steps, honor and glory await my name-if defeat, still shall it be said we died like brave men, and conferred honor, even in death, on the American Name. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#attends #await #brave #brave men #conferred

Praying without ceasing is not ritualized, nor are there even words. It is a constant state of awareness of oneness with God. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#ceasing #constant #constant state #even #god