#lis

The idea that you're not a writer until you're published is a lie. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#lie #published #until #writer #you

Our top priority is our troops, who are making the extraordinary effort to fulfill the mission they have been given. Democrats will work with this Administration to better define that mission and a realistic expectation of success in Iraq. ↗

— Jim Clyburn

#been #better #define #democrats #effort

You know, people call mystery novels or thrillers 'puzzles.' I never understood that, because when I buy a puzzle, I already know what it is. It's on the box. And even if I don't, if it's a 5,000-piece puzzle of the 'Mona Lisa', it's not like I put the last piece in and go, 'I had no idea it's the 'Mona Lisa'!' ↗

— Harlan Coben

#because #box #buy #call #even

It's interesting, as I said on the last tour in America, the audience actually came out, they had to have been the kind of fans who listened to my music via their parents, you know what I mean? ↗

— Joe Cocker

#america #audience #been #came #fans

Some of the songs I do once in a while that I kinda... my set list is basically like my hits, there is a good reason why they are there; people really like them. ↗

— Joe Cocker

#good #good reason #hits #i #i do

True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#covered #habit #keeps #prevents #realism

As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off was my wife's money and little bits I was picking up for journalism. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#carve #had #i #journalism #little

When you walk the track and you see a corner and realise you were going round it at 160mph, you wonder who could be so stupid to take a corner at that speed. But in the car, you don't even think about that. ↗

— Sebastian Vettel

#car #corner #could #even #going

Twitter is my bar. I sit at the counter and listen to the conversations, starting others, feeling the atmosphere. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#bar #conversations #counter #feeling #i

Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#free #publishers #sales #see #threatening