#idea

My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel what they feel. Only third comes the idea. ↗

— David Brin

#comes #convey #credible #duty #feel

Well, rather than to give you my impression on Los Angeles, per se, my older sister's husband is and American, therefore I have a pretty good idea of the, perhaps the characteristics of Americans in general. ↗

— Nobuo Uematsu

#angeles #characteristics #general #give #good

Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive. ↗

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

#been #belief #capacity #devoted #get

You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish. ↗

— Anita Brookner

#begins #decided #decisions #entirely #healthier

I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy. ↗

— James L. Brooks

#everybody #had #hated #i #idea

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

#ideal #life #never #our #still

Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love. ↗

— Morihei Ueshiba

#best #combines #commodities #develops #economy

The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down. ↗

— Eric Brown

#dissatisfied #down #get #guilty #haven

I wasn't thinking of competing with any artists as such, I was more thinking of being among them, and sharing thoughts with them; like sharing views, ideas, etc. ↗

— Dennis Brown

#any #artists #being #competing #etc

I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off. ↗

— Rita Mae Brown

#come #general #give #happen #i