#more

My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#book #corner #curl #dusty #habit

No one uses a ribbon typewriter any more, but your final draft is not the time to try to wring a few more sheets out of your inkjet cartridge. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#cartridge #draft #few #final #final draft

Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment. ↗

— Lynn Abbey

#balance #because #commitment #different #dull

For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith. ↗

— Felix Adler

#faith #formulas #men #more #quarreled

I want to do as little as possible when I finish playing ball - just spend a lot more time with my family. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#family #finish #i #just #little

With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer... they've got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written on film or in literature. And we could hear the music accompanying the words... What more can you ask for? ↗

— F. Murray Abraham

#ask #beautiful #could #descriptions #ever

I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#begin #color #different #different color #different kind

It just gets frustrating playing the girlfriend, It's just this awful feeling, sitting in your house, waiting for a script to come. I like to be more proactive. ↗

— Joey Lauren Adams

#come #feeling #frustrating #gets #girlfriend

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. ↗

— John Adams

#atheist #believe #believed #blind #civilize

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#deal #did #folly #great #great deal