#fire

I love stories. When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#big #bore #club #fire #going

We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#call #department #down #fire #house

You never ask why you've been fired because if you do, they're liable to tell you. ↗

— Jerry Coleman

#because #been #fired #liable #never

Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm. ↗

— Carlo Collodi

#cold #common #cozy #expensive #far

It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#borne #engine #excellent #fire #formidable

My uncle's house burned down when I was 6 years old. We got out safely. But ever since, I've had a nightmare of dying in a fire. ↗

— David Copperfield

#down #dying #ever #fire #got

They'll totally hire me if I say I got fired from my job on the Hill because of a sex scandal. ↗

— Jessica Cutler

#fired #got #hill #hire #i

Storytelling is what lights my fire. ↗

— Hope Davis

#lights #storytelling

I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets. ↗

— Anita Diament

#already #any #before #book #came

Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home. ↗

— Christopher Dodd

#foot #here #home #indispensable #soldiers