#out

I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#advise #any #beginning #consider #draft

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#empty #fatiguing #futile #i #suppose

The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#him #out #small #take #very

I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#actual #actual process #closely #examining #i

First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life. ↗

— Pat Benatar

#first #first of all #i #life #personal

When the first record came out, I'd go down to radio stations pretty much every day to get the record played, and I would walk in and they'd tell us how much they loved the record, but they weren't sure how much they could play it because they were already playing a girl. ↗

— Pat Benatar

#because #came #could #day #down

But I think the only thing that annoys me about that is if I suddenly find someone on commercial radio or something like that, mimicking my voice or actions and trying to promote a product and pretending it's me doing it. ↗

— Richie Benaud

#actions #annoys #commercial #doing #find

Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini? ↗

— Robert Benchley

#coat #dry #get #into #martini

It is all about marketing; that is where the real craft comes in. The best actors do not necessarily become the biggest stars. And vice versa. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#become #best #biggest #comes #craft

Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#coming #downstairs #feel #hear #impulse