#ff

I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm too dumb to turn off my Twitter and everything so it's always on and it's a real distraction. It's a major distraction. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#because #day #distraction #dumb #everyday

If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles. ↗

— R. L. Stine

#different #many #much #read #soak

I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them. ↗

— Sting

#body #breathed #case #charts #commodity

It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile. ↗

— Sting

#man #smile #suffer #takes

It's never easy to write a song. It's the most difficult thing I do. ↗

— Sting

#difficult #difficult thing #easy #i #i do

Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult. ↗

— Sting

#difficult #life #like #spiritual #spiritual life

When I get really hammered I take my clothes off. That's a sure sign. It's been a long time since the last time I did that. Probably a year. ↗

— Michael Stipe

#clothes #did #get #hammered #i

Half the issues they - are so polished they're talking about - are dead by the time they get into the office, and into the midst of their tour where they're really productive. ↗

— James Stockdale

#by the time #dead #get #half #into

I was commanding officer of a supersonic fighter squadron, F-8 Crusaders. ↗

— James Stockdale

#fighter #i #officer #squadron

I was tortured fifteen times, that's total submission. They did that with shutting off your blood circulation with ropes, giving you claustrophobia and pain at the same time, bending you double. ↗

— James Stockdale

#blood #circulation #did #double #fifteen