#ms

Reading at meals is considered rude in polite society, but if you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. ↗

— Stephen King

#norms #politeness #reading #society #writing

Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity. ↗

— Peter Straub

#eventually #feel #fiction #fiction writers #forms

You get to the plate and nothing is going through your mind. You see the ball, you see the seams. ↗

— Jason Giambi

#get #going #mind #nothing #plate

There have been times when I reread - or at least leafed through - something because I'd sent a copy to a friend, and what usually happened was that I noticed dozens and dozens of clumsy phrases I wished I could rewrite. ↗

— Peter Straub

#been #clumsy #copy #could #dozens

Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts. ↗

— Barry Gibb

#charts #every #everybody #get #group

I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us. ↗

— Barry Gibb

#around #drag #eldest #few #i

Barry seems to be more flamboyant merely because he gets more interviews to talk about it. ↗

— Maurice Gibb

#barry #because #flamboyant #gets #interviews

I don't like lifts and will walk up 20 flights of stairs if I have to. Crowded rooms make me uncomfortable, too, although I can sing to a stadium full of thousands of people no bother. ↗

— Robin Gibb

#bother #crowded #flights #full #i

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#above #common #educations #every #every man

Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

#forms #government #hereditary #monarchy #present