#lis

There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#authorship #difficulties #find #honest #honest men

Never stop listening to your audience. ↗

— David Copperfield

#listening #never #never stop #stop #your

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English. ↗

— Eric Allin Cornell

#engineering #english #father #high #high school

In worshipping their nationhood men worship themselves and scorn others, and that is no healthy thing. ↗

— C.J. Sansom

#xenophobia #men

I don't know what 'operational control' of the border means, but I do understand the English language. And as I understand that phrase, that's not true. We do not have operational control. ↗

— John Cornyn

#control #english #english language #i #i do

I must confess, my Spanish is not so good - except I read a little, so I started with the English but then determined that it would have to be in Spanish. ↗

— George Crumb

#determined #english #except #good #i

I came to New York to study ballet and English. ↗

— Penelope Cruz

#came #english #i #i came #new

Those are the two best words in English, 'Bidding' and 'war'. ↗

— Evan Daugherty

#bidding #english #those #two #war

An audience shouldn't listen with complacency. ↗

— Peter Maxwell Davies

#complacency #listen

I don't want to sound like 'chirpy Evan' who's just bouncing around with his unrealistic views and doesn't understand what's going on. ↗