#ere

It's only a drawback in the States, where most people seem to have no real interest in other countries and the notion of a novel which might offer insight into life in the UK doesn't seem to appeal very widely. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#countries #drawback #insight #interest #into

They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#early #i #strapped #were #written

There is something universal in the theme of a man trying to save his family in the midst of the most terrible circumstances. It is not limited to Sierra Leone. This story could apply to any number of places where ordinary people have been caught up in political events beyond their control. ↗

— Edward Zwick

#apply #been #beyond #caught #circumstances

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#ever #fear #goes #heart #itself

When you walk the track and you see a corner and realise you were going round it at 160mph, you wonder who could be so stupid to take a corner at that speed. But in the car, you don't even think about that. ↗

— Sebastian Vettel

#car #corner #could #even #going

Twitter is my bar. I sit at the counter and listen to the conversations, starting others, feeling the atmosphere. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#bar #conversations #counter #feeling #i

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#being #brazil #career #death #encouraged

I'd be perfectly happy never to have to answer anything again about how I work with Ethan, or whether we have arguments, or... you know what I mean? I've been answering those questions for 20 years. I suppose it's interesting to people. ↗

— Joel Coen

#again #answer #answering #anything #been

If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction? ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#clearer #fiction #saying #says #scrap

Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#heart #interest #legal #legal rights #rights