#lists

The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style ↗

— Stella Gibbons

#life

The only time I've ever learned anything from a review was when John Lanchester wrote a piece in the Guardian about my second novel, The Heather Blazing. He said that, together with the previous novel, it represented a diptych about the aftermath of Irish independence. I simply hadn't known that – and I loved the grandeur of the word "diptych". I went around quite snooty for a few days, thinking: "I wrote a diptych." [Colm Tóibín, Novelist – Portrait of the Artist, The Guardian, 19 February 2013] ↗

— Colm Tóibín

#conceit #critique #diptychs #grandeur #novelists

When everything was laid out before her, she felt safe, loved even. She was always trying to be more organized than she was. She knew it was weird and blamed her mother, with the lists and notes she’d leave whenever she and Dad went out of town. The labeled dinners in the freezer and the 20 emergency numbers on the phone showed she cared, even when absent, she cared. ↗

— Victoria Kahler

#lists #ocd #organization #love

Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists when you can ignore them like wise men? ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#grab #ignore #like #men #possessions

The guiding principle is not to manufacture the goods everyone needs, rather to earn profits for a few capitalists. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

#earn #everyone #few #goods #guiding

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves - and the better the teacher, the better the student body. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#better #better off #body #degree #inform

I'm controlling, and I want everything orderly, and I need lists. My mind goes a mile a minute. I'm difficult on every single level. ↗

— Sandra Bullock

#difficult #every #everything #goes #i

The idealists will always be in society, and we will survive. ↗

— John Zorn

#idealists #society #survive #will

Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader. ↗

— John le Carre

#casting #coming #creative #dressing #energy

General Sherman looked upon journalists as a nuisance and a danger at headquarters and in the field, and acted toward them accordingly, then as throughout his great war career. ↗

— Henry Villard

#acted #career #danger #field #general