#liter

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.' ↗

— Paul McCartney

#down #huge #i #john #literally

I literally have meetings at eight o'clock in the morning, and I finish at nine o'clock at night. It sounds pathetic, but I don't even have time to go shopping. ↗

— Stella McCartney

#eight #even #finish #go #i

Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#energy #enthusiasm #force #human #human soul

I went to regular schools and I was home schooled a lot but I don't have any history in schools. Like, I literally don't exist. I didn't even get a birth certificate until the mid-80s. I always feel like I could be, like, 10 years younger, or maybe I'm 70! ↗

— Rose McGowan

#any #birth #birth certificate #certificate #could

Schizophrenia may be a necessary consequence of literacy. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#literacy #may #necessary #schizophrenia

Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#culture #literary #missing #our #quite

The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#best #best way #change #climate #climate change

When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#became #began #bubble #commented #contained

But that incessant drive to be out there in the literary universe that was important to me when I was in my twenties, like going to a Paris Review party or whatever, that seems totally irrelevant now. ↗

— Rick Moody

#going #i #important #incessant #irrelevant

Literature precedes genre. ↗

— Rick Moody

#literature #precedes