#earl

It is perhaps both a blessing and a curse that fictional worlds spring into my mind nearly fully formed and it takes quite a while to sift through everything to find the story. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#both #curse #everything #fictional #find

Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#bad #broad #early #generalization #his

I was born in '74, so I missed out on all the great early '60s and early '70s. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#early #great #i #i was born #missed

I'm clearly most well known for my music. Eventually, ultimately, I'll be writing books. I'm still writing articles now. I just consider myself a writer. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#books #clearly #consider #eventually #i

I now resolved to go to bed early, with a firm purpose of also rising early the next day to revisit this charming walk; for I thought to myself, I have now seen this temple of the modern world imperfectly; I have seen it only by moonlight. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#bed #charming #day #early #firm

Sidney Lumet's chief preoccupation wasn't art. It was right and wrong in the American city, nearly always in New York. ↗

— Wesley Morris

#american #art #chief #city #nearly

You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it. ↗

— Alex Morrison

#clearly #first #mind #must #see

I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice. ↗

— Van Morrison

#early #i #learnt #never #recordings

It always strikes me how almost unbelievably bad are the early versions of my novels. ↗

— Nicholas Mosley

#always #bad #early #how #me

My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always said was the worst experience in his life. When he was 8, his father disappeared and he was on his own from the age of 8. ↗

— Walter Mosley

#always #died #disappeared #earliest #experience