#lives

I'm a very introverted person. Nothing that's happened has changed that, but one of the reasons I write for teens is it's a real privilege to have a seat at the table in the lives of young people when they're figuring out what matters to them. ↗

— John Green

#figuring #happened #i #i write #introverted

We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, 'I want to be Kurt Vonnegut.' ↗

— John Green

#i #i remember #kid #kurt #like

If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#beautiful #close #day #day to day #dirt

Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#austen #because #books #boring #boring people

Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care. ↗

— Mark Haddon

#enough #even #examine #humdrum #imagination

Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic. ↗

— Keith Haring

#been #brings #drawing #lives #magic

You've got as many lives as you like, and more, even ones you don't want. ↗

— George Harrison

#got #like #lives #many #more

The world is better because of Coretta Scott King. She affected countless lives and her voice will be deeply missed, especially by those who carry on her incredible undertaking. ↗

— Alcee Hastings

#because #better #carry #countless #deeply

Like the American soldiers who went before them, they are putting their lives on the line to protect ours. ↗

— Doc Hastings

#american soldiers #before #like #line #lives

Before we had the kids, my husband and I were traveling a lot and working and really enjoying our lives and each other. We both love the theater and books and travel and so we were really having a lot of fun. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

#books #both #each #enjoying #fun