#liter

To me, working out is literally like eating a meal or drinking water or breathing. ↗

— Hilary Swank

#drinking #drinking water #eating #like #literally

Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics. ↗

— Lynn Swann

#country #discover #education #great #had

With dancing, you have to know spatial movement with somebody. It is steps. It's literally steps and knowing how close to be or how far away. You have to have the beat in the right place with the camera. ↗

— Channing Tatum

#beat #camera #close #dancing #far

Literary life used to be quite different in Britain in the years I lived there, from 1971 to 1989, because money was not a factor - no one made very much except from U.S. sales and the occasional windfall. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#britain #different #except #factor #i

There is grand romance in The Lord of the Rings. It's an important part of epic literature. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

#grand #important #literature #lord #lord of the rings

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#alone #author #away #being #enough

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. ↗

— Cyril Connolly

#grasped #journalism #literature #once #read

In January 1912 Leonard proposed marriage. She was unable to answer directly and he pressed further in a passionate letter: ‘It isn’t, really it isnt, merely because you are so beautiful – though of course that is a large reason & so it should be – that I love you: it is your mind & your character – I have never known anyone like you in that – wont you believe me? ↗

— Jane Goldman

#beauty

Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history. ↗

— Robert Hall

#biography #composed #composition #concentrated #delightful

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature. ↗

— Steig Larsson

#classical #detective #detective stories #entertainment #light