#bout

Seriously, Jack, I think you might be the only guy in this city who hasn’t read his stuff. Collin McCann is like the Carrie Bradshaw of Chicago men.” “You mean Terry Bradshaw,” Jack corrected. “No, Carrie,” Wilkins repeated. “You know, Sarah Jessica Parker. Sex and the City.” A silence fell over the room as Collin and Jack stared at Wilkins, seriously fearing for the fate of men. ↗

— Julie James

#fbi #funny #humor #julie-james #men

Make evil intelligible, justice desirable, sorrow endurable, and love possible. My hero taught me that, and for once, I don't mean Batman. ↗

— Victor Giannini

#quotes-about-writing #victor-giannini #intelligence

I never write the storyline ahead of the novel and stick to it like glue. I prefer my writing to be organic. It takes on a life of it's own. ↗

— Airambooksie

#quotes-about-writing #quotes-for-writers #life

In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high. ↗

— Laura Ingalls Wilder

#country #evenings #grass #grew #high

I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education. ↗

— William Wiley

#age #artist #aware #been #being

A final word: I am not knowledgeable about the internet. I do not have a computer. I guess that at 74 years of age, I don't have the patience to learn. ↗

— David Wilkerson

#age #am #computer #final #final word

If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the rigours of the desert - then it is easier to understand why greener pastures pall on us; why possessions exhaust us, and why Pascal's imaginary man found his comfortable lodgings a prison. ↗

— Bruce Chatwin

#nature-of-man #nomad #pascal #walkabout #home

I am a big Bewitched fan... something about the way Elizabeth Montgomery twitched her nose. ↗

— Barry Williams

#am #bewitched #big #elizabeth #fan

The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator which is often socially impressive. ↗

— Kenneth Williams

#acquaintance #give #impressive #nice #nodding

Within a few hours I had them off, was about ready to play the shows. That night I opened, and during the week Harris was over to the house to talk my mother into letting me leave home. ↗

— Mary Lou Williams

#during #few #had #harris #home