#ear

It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard "Heartbreak Hotel" I thought, this is it. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#elvis #got #heard #heartbreak #hooked

Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well. ↗

— Paul McCartney

#certainly #come #dad #doing #earning

I was brought up to understand that we are all here on planet earth together. ↗

— Stella McCartney

#earth #here #i #planet #planet earth

In terms of the series, we worked separately, getting together in rehearsal to beat out the material. ↗

— Bruce McCulloch

#getting #material #out #rehearsal #separately

In early draft it never satisfied me, and that was when it clicked into place and it went so well as a diary. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#diary #draft #early #into #me

Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two of which will be polishing drafts. The ones in between will flesh out the characters and maybe I'll check my research. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#characters #check #down #draft #drafts

I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research. ↗

— David McCullough

#academic #been #could #find #go

My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America. ↗

— David McCullough

#also #america #army #book #century

My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader. ↗

— David McCullough

#book #clear #compelling #hope #i

There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing. ↗

— David McCullough

#comes #just #keep #point #researching