#norm

Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#anything #book #close #dire #fantasy

If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#although #blurred #clear #colour #could

I'm a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four. ↗

— Joel Rosenberg

#four #i #man #men #normal

There was an enormous amount of pressure when my first album took off, and I struggled with the speed of everything and the exhaustion from the constant touring. ↗

— Norah Jones

#amount #constant #enormous #everything #exhaustion

Normal people with normal problems can be hilarious. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#normal #normal people #people #problems

Sadly, because of the enormous gap between rich and poor, some mothers can afford helpers, but many can't. Those who can would be kinder to refrain from criticizing other women. ↗

— Erica Jong

#because #between #criticizing #enormous #gap

This is the very womb and bed of enormity. ↗

— Ben Jonson

#enormity #very #womb

My conception of it was that in a normal film you have a story with different movements that program, develop, go a little bit off the trunk, come back, and end. ↗

— Neil Jordan

#bit #come #conception #develop #different

If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously. ↗

— Ken Kesey

#grass #help #legalized #our #problem

Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing. ↗

— Ken Kesey

#america #better #especially #get #hard