#out

The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#challenge #faced #man #modern #modern man

One step outside the gate, and we are among the sand-hills that stretch for miles and miles round Vera Cruz. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

#cruz #gate #miles #outside #round

Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the outlet Imagine such a valley ten miles across, with just such a sloping plain, not of snow but of earth. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

#downward #earth #every #forming #gradually

There was no romance about the mosquitos, however. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

#however #romance

All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how the exploration of the Solar System would be changed if there were an indigenous presence out there. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#changed #expansion #exploration #got #history

I describe my plots as follows; A character is walking down the street when all of a sudden a piano falls on them. They spend the rest of the story digging out from under that piano. How they dig, how long and how well, this all depends entirely on the character. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#depends #describe #dig #digging #down

My overcoat is worn out; my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening; it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark. ↗

— William Tyndale

#alone #also #ask #dark #evening

If I get blocked, it is generally because I don't know enough about some aspect of the story or the characters. The answer for this is generally more research, or making more background notes, so the place and person can be more fully realized inside my own mind. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#answer #aspect #background #because #blocked

My joking answer to this question is that I leave a bowl of milk out on the back porch every night for the Idea Fairy. In the morning, the milk is gone and there's a brand-new shiny idea by the bowl. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#back #bowl #brand-new #every #every night

She said she was going out, and would get the dinner. That is the last I saw her, or said anything to her. ↗

— Lizzie Andrew Borden

#dinner #get #going #her #i