#ending

Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile. ↗

— Rudy Rucker

#awhile #beginning #done #finish #keep

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor. ↗

— John Ruskin

#fortunes #founded #labor #land #large

The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or she is telling. ↗

— Richard Russo

#comprehending #deepest #failures #fiction #fiction writer

I give up on spending time on these courts; I give up on practicing before the tournament I hate. I hate this. ↗

— Marat Safin

#courts #give #hate #i #practicing

The world is a perpetual caricature of itself; at every moment it is the mockery and the contradiction of what it is pretending to be. ↗

— George Santayana

#contradiction #every #itself #mockery #moment

Be able to blow out a dinner candle without sending wax flying across the table. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#across #blow #candle #dinner #flying

Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#brought #crossword #doing #moments #puzzles

News reporting is a cycle: No matter how much you work at sending a message, it's only successful if it's received. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#how #matter #message #much #news

What I am defending is the real rights of women. A woman should have the right to be in the home as a wife and mother. ↗

— Phyllis Schlafly

#defending #home #i #i am #mother

Well, I think that California has had a history of always spending more money than it takes in. ↗

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

#california #had #history #i #i think