#mos

Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything else. ↗

— Katherine Anne Porter

#apprenticeship #craft #else #like #most

Years ago when you'd go to a working group most of the people in the working group would be from universities. Now most of the people are from companies who are building internet products and care what the standards turn out to be. ↗

— Jon Postel

#building #care #companies #go #group

I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives they have heard about as the raw material for their creativity. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#certainly #close #creativity #heard #i

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#degree #great #great literature #language #literature

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#entirely #even #glad #gloom #heart

Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#bears #good #good art #however #i

I'm really more prolific than most stand-ups. My act changes. I do fold in new experiences, new observations, whatever you want to call it. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#call #changes #experiences #fold #i

It is most unwise for people in love to marry. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#marry #most #people #unwise

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand. ↗

— Colin Powell

#always #argument #cut #debate #doubt

Surely, the best and most effective measure is to get the economy moving and shorten the period of recession or slowdown. That's the rationale for Gordon Brown's 'fiscal stimulus' and it sounds like a good one to me. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#brown #economy #effective #fiscal #get