#ip

A period of time is as much an organising principle for a work of fiction as a sense of place. You can do geography, as Faulkner did, or you can dwell on a particular period. It provides the same framework. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#dwell #faulkner #fiction #framework #geography

I don't care about whose DNA has recombined with whose. When everything goes to hell, the people who stand by you without flinching--they are your family. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#family #friends #friendship #family

For me it was perfect, because it wasn't a very competitive environment, and it was a studio program. They basically send you off, and say, bring us some work, and we'll help you improve it. It really rewarded self-discipline. ↗

— Anthony Doerr

#because #bring #competitive #environment #help

My relationships with my loved ones always take precedence over work. ↗

— Lexa Doig

#loved #loved ones #ones #over #precedence

I was actually a bit disappointed about the amount of sex in the show. I think Backus should get out a bit more, get a relationship, perhaps make her a lesbian. ↗

— Lexa Doig

#actually #amount #bit #disappointed #get

You can measure the happiness of a marriage by the number of scars that each partner carries on their tongues, earned from years of biting back angry words. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#family #marriage #relationships #family

I've learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you'll miss them when they're gone from your life. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#parents-and-children #family

But I have tried to go over it very carefully, not merely what the evidence is, but with psychoanalysts and psychologists, and I think we're just about all agreed that Lincoln and Speed did not have a homosexual relationship. ↗

— David Herbert Donald

#agreed #carefully #did #evidence #go

We need leadership, and we need it now. ↗

— Byron Dorgan

#need #now

I did a couple songs with this hip-hop guy named Tim Dark. He was working in the same studio I've been working in, he heard my music and he said, aw man, I've got to do something with you. ↗

— Alan Vega

#been #couple #dark #did #got