#no

I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#bbc #been #challenging #did #enough

I liked 35 and in both my novels that is the age of the lead characters. I tried making them my age but they just seemed to keep moaning about stuff. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#age #both #characters #i #i tried

I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#cracking #going #hyper #i #idea

But compared to writing a novel, where you can be God, I did the Bay of Pigs invasion in six pages once, and there were 50,000 guys with boots that I didn't have to pay, and all those extras; we didn't have to pay them. ↗

— John Sayles

#boots #compared #did #extras #god

I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water. ↗

— John Sayles

#america #dead #defeats #feel #final

I never thought about being a writer as I grew up. A writer wasn't something I wanted to be. An outfielder was something to be. Most of what I know about style I learned from Roberto Clemente. ↗

— John Sayles

#being #grew #i #know #learned

When I was really young I didn't know that there was such a thing as a screenwriter. I wrote stories. ↗

— John Sayles

#know #really #screenwriter #stories #such

I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty much get to do the first, second and third draft yourself without a whole lot of interference. ↗

— John Sayles

#first #get #getting #got #i

Those are fun, especially if they're going to shoot them in four weeks, because you know they're not going to mess with anything you do, so it can be very imaginative. ↗

— John Sayles

#because #especially #four #fun #going

A noble heart will always capitulate to reason. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#capitulate #heart #noble #reason #will