#goin

I never bought the excuse of not having time to write. If you really want to do it, you're either going to find those hours or eventually decide not to be a writer. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#decide #either #eventually #excuse #find

The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#books #compelling #dreams #find #going

For TV you also get those pre-interviews when researchers ask you what you're going to say. The pre-interview drives me insane. If they've already decided the outcome, why don't I just hand in an essay? Maybe if we talk we'll find something out. I'd rather just have an awkward pause. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#also #ask #awkward #decided #drives

I think basically becoming famous has taken the place of going to Heaven in modern society, hasn't it? That's the place where your dreams will come true. It's an act of faith now; they think that's going to sort things out. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#basically #becoming #come #dreams #faith

Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#far #go #going #how #how far

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

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 think I think in the moment. So when I'm in character, I'm in character, and I'm obviously thinking about what's going on around me, but it's easier to do stuff when you're in character. ↗

— Sacha Baron Cohen

#around #character #easier #going #i

I want everybody who is watching to come to the Academy Awards with us. I'm going to pay for the bus. ↗

— Steven Cojocaru

#academy awards #awards #bus #come #everybody

We are going to have a huge Oscar issue, you are going to see everything in such beautiful detail. ↗

— Steven Cojocaru

#detail #everything #going #huge #issue