#ff

One of the people that I respect the most now, a person I think has done a heck of a lot for this world as a leader, is Margaret Thatcher. She helped create a world that offers us a lot of excitement as we look to the next century. ↗

— Sanford I. Weill

#create #done #excitement #heck #helped

I became an art major, took every art class my school had to offer. In college, I majored in Advertising Art and Design. ↗

— Len Wein

#art #became #class #college #design

I realized the only thing I owed my audience was my own judgment and my own best effort. ↗

— Len Wein

#best #effort #i #judgment #my own

I've never sat down and thought about the difference between plot and theme. To me, that's never been important. ↗

— Len Wein

#been #between #difference #down #i

What makes a story is how well it manages to connect with the reader, the visceral effect it has. ↗

— Len Wein

#effect #how #makes #manages #reader

When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes. ↗

— Len Wein

#begin #between #changes #difference #draft

You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end. ↗

— Len Wein

#beginning #different #dozen #end #makes

You would be better off in exile than priding yourself on be like everyone else. ↗

— George Weinberg

#better off #else #everyone #exile #like

The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence - the ability to make yourself work at your craft, every day - the belief, even in the face of obstacles, that you've got something worth saying. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#actually #belief #believe #between #books

Having a day job again I found really kind of fueled my fiction, because it became almost this forbidden thing where I had to sneak off and do it in private. ↗

— Jennifer Weiner

#almost #became #because #day #fiction