#not

About 15 years ago I went though a period of a year or so when I just couldn't find anything good. My wife noticed I was having trouble reading menus. I bought some cheap reading glasses in a drug store. I got home and suddenly all these books that weren't good were good. ↗

— Richard Russo

#ago #anything #books #bought #cheap

When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so that I usually don't write, or take notes. And I certainly don't begin. I just allow things to percolate for a while. ↗

— Richard Russo

#back #begin #certainly #close #end

It seems to me that there are two kinds of trickery: the "fronts" people assume before one another's eyes, and the "front" a writer puts on the face of reality. ↗

— Francoise Sagan

#assume #before #eyes #face #front

Because of the makeup of the NBA, it cannot afford for the public to turn on them. ↗

— Julius Erving

#because #cannot #makeup #nba #public

Think it not hard if you get not your will, nor your delights in this life; God will have you to rejoice in nothing but himself. ↗

— Samuel Rutherford

#get #god #hard #himself #life

Motherhood changed me because it is so fundamental what you're doing for another person. And you are able to do even though it takes a lot. ↗

— Meg Ryan

#another #because #changed #doing #even

It's just people should realize that the celebrity aspect of being an actor is very rarely enjoyable for people like me who would always rather go unnoticed and disappear into the crowd. ↗

— Winona Ryder

#always #aspect #being #celebrity #crowd

More immediately, I'm currently working on another Dracula in which there will be connections with ancient Egypt. That's about as far as I want to go in commenting on current work. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#ancient #another #as far as #commenting #connections

What has reality shows got to do with reality? It is beyond unreality; there is nothing real about it. ↗

— Morley Safer

#beyond #got #nothing #real #reality

There is a certain comfort in waking up and finding that Michael Jackson is still the Big Story. At least it tells you that nothing horrible has happened in the world that would force them to move on to real news. ↗

— Pat Sajak

#big story #certain #comfort #finding #force