#he

Some people like to do everything always the same thing. That's another way: To do the same thing. ↗

— Ridley Scott

#another #another way #everything #like #people

Your behavior is the sum total of your action and reaction to issues and people around you. ↗

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#dreams #fulfilling-purpose #inspiration #risk-it-be-different #success-self-improvement

But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer. ↗

— Robert E. Howard

#failure #first #grandfathers #his #i

A lifetime with such a woman was not nearly enough. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#christopher #hathaways #kleypas-hero #love-in-the-afternoon #love

It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments. ↗

— Robert E. Howard

#because #culture #education #environments #into

Never the less, at the age of fifteen, having never seen a writer, a poet, a publisher or a magazine editor, and having only the vaguest ideas of procedure, I began working on the profession I had chosen. ↗

— Robert E. Howard

#began #chosen #editor #fifteen #had

That religious earnestness forever tends toward fright and hence towards brittleness and inquisition is clear enough in mythology and history. ↗

— Thomas Howard

#earnestness #enough #forever #fright #hence

If there were no schools to take the children away from home part of the time, the insane asylums would be filled with mothers. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#asylums #away #children #filled #home

Your wife is psychotic." "Michaela is just angry. Anger does fascinating things to a woman - not two react the same." "Yeah, well, she's overreacting. With a knife." He nodded with a small, almost nostalgic smile. "It was my wedding gift to her. The handle is ivory." Sick bastard. "Well, at least my murder weapon will have sentimental value." "That's actually an honour, you know." "I'll keep that in mind as my life flashes before my eyes. ↗

— Rachel Vincent

#rachel-vincent #anger

I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession. ↗

— John Howe

#been #before #books #ever #first