#of

They can't give a Nobel to someone who's dead so I think they were probably thinking they had better give it to me now before I popped off. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#better #dead #give #had #i

When I started, there were no big interviews, no television, no profiles and all that. The publishers were quite shockingly uncommercial, but they did look after their writers. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#big #did #i #interviews #look

When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#into #lake #lovely #peace #profoundly

I've never related to the work geek at all-it sounds much more horrible than nerd. Like a freak biting a chicken's head off in a sideshow. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#chicken #freak #geek #head #horrible

My fiction has been influenced by the visual arts, though not in obvious ways, it seems to me. I don't offer tremendous amounts of visual information in my work. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#been #fiction #i #influenced #information

There is no off position on the genius switch. ↗

— David Letterman

#off #position #switch

It's official, Arnold said he will enter the race for governor. At least that's what everybody thinks he said. ↗

— David Letterman

#enter #everybody #governor #least #official

President Bush says he needs a month off to unwind. Unwind? When the hell does this guy wind? ↗

— David Letterman

#does #guy #hell #month #needs

I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself. ↗