#make

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor. ↗

— Ring Lardner

#big #big enough #come #editor #enclosing

There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens. ↗

— Tommy Lasorda

#baseball players #happen #happens #make #make it happen

You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#feel #feelings #make #right #something

Naturally I drew register a little exaggerated, in order to create something new in the sense of a sublime literature that sings of despair only in order to oppress the reader, and make him desire the good as the remedy. ↗

— Comte de Lautreamont

#desire #despair #drew #exaggerated #good

It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#body #difficult #exacting #into #live

I am quite prepared, if we can do it without any disrespect to the Crown of England, to bring our titles to the marketplace and make a bonfire of them. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#any #bonfire #bring #crown #disrespect

You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great writing, and mediocre actors will make it feel mediocre. Without the actors, you have nothing. ↗

— Denis Leary

#feel #good #good writing #great #like

The Term Paper Artist' represents two models of writing, one of the little boy bouncing his ball, generating stories for the sheer pleasure of it, and the besieged adult, writing to make a living, having to contend with a very competitive, very unreliable world in which public image counts. ↗

— David Leavitt

#artist #ball #bouncing #boy #competitive

Economically, it's more expensive to make movies. I hope digital movies change that. ↗

— Ang Lee

#digital #economically #expensive #hope #i

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books. ↗

— Alvin Lee

#books #go #make #read #world