#iv

I don't want my readers slowed down by long passages of narrative. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#i #long #narrative #passages #readers

Since I can barely write two books a year the best solution seems to be co-author projects. My goal isn't to get another writer to clone me... it's more to produce a book that shares my vision of positive, fun entertainment. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#barely #best #book #books #clone

You can get through very serious and sometimes horrible and sometimes embarrassing and very awkward situations with humor. It gives us a way out. ↗

— Janet Evanovich

#embarrassing #get #gives #horrible #humor

For a long time all I wanted for Christmas were books about outdoor survival. I was convinced that the woods were calling me. I camped a lot, I took classes. At 18, I told myself if I don't live in the woods by myself by the time I'm 25, I have failed. ↗

— Chris Evans

#books #by the time #calling #camped #christmas

I hate myself in interviews. All of a sudden, you stop and you're like, 'Chris, how dare you?' I don't live in Darfur. I have both legs. But you can't walk around all the time being like, 'I'm so grateful I'm not in Darfur.' ↗

— Chris Evans

#being #both #chris #dare #darfur

Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas. ↗

— Dale Evans

#action #child #every #every time #give

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#creativity #enemy #lousy #must #self-conscious

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#dead #dream #drop #eyes #factories

What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give. ↗

— Dame Edith Evans

#give #i #theatre #want

I have been wounded altogether twenty times; eleven of these wounds were received at Northfield. ↗

— Cole Younger

#been #eleven #i #received #these