#ld

The real solution is to improve the incomes of the poor and provide their children with decent education. ↗

— Carol Bellamy

#decent #education #improve #incomes #poor

UNICEF has repeatedly called on governments to ensure basic services for children and this includes providing food where the need exists. ↗

— Carol Bellamy

#called #children #ensure #exists #food

The world that she lives in is just magical, one of the most beautiful places I've ever seen. ↗

— Camilla Belle

#beautiful places #ever #i #just #lives

I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. Have you found work yet? she asked. Or are you still just writing? ↗

— Anne Tyler

#asked #came #child #found #i

An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#god #imbecility #institute #last #run

I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#advise #any #beginning #consider #draft

I believe implicitly that every young man in the world is fascinated with either sharks or dinosaurs. ↗

— Peter Benchley

#dinosaurs #either #every #fascinated #i

I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#backbone #behold #characters #enough #given

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#artist #be grateful #beyond #grace #grateful

I don't know if there is a gene for comedy, but my dad was a very funny man. He just didn't know it. He was a naturally funny character, and when my brother and I would laugh at things he said and did, he would say, 'What do you think is so funny?' ↗

— James Belushi

#character #comedy #dad #did #funny