#earl

Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#dragon #george #giant #grammar #harry

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#day #i #imagine #journalists #long

Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#early #entirely #good #influence #much

A study of the history of wages back through the years indicates clearly that when the cost-of-living rises appreciably wages have shortly been adjusted upward also. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#also #back #been #clearly #history

I had 3 brothers, 2 died early, and one of them was living a good long time. ↗

— Edith Wilson

#died #early #good #had #i

I'm clearly not Brad Pitt, and I'm never going to be Brad Pitt. ↗

— Paul Giamatti

#brad pitt #clearly #going #i #never

Of course, in later years, I'd studied acting more than ever before - mostly with the late Stella Adler, who was marvelous! - but in my earlier years, I couldn't afford to do this. ↗

— Marie Windsor

#adler #afford #before #course #earlier

I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#deprived #early #early age #ghetto #girl

I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#i #i can #life #live #lot

I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#authentic self #become #being #could #done