#own

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up. ↗

— Joan Didion

#daily #day #different #down #dread

Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful. ↗

— Joan Didion

#another #antithetical #because #book #down

Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#alive #artists #duty #era #hand

I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#down #i #million #movies #turned

If I'd known how much packing I'd have to do, I'd have run again. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#how #i #known #much #packing

Downloading songs is not good. ↗

— Obie Trice

#good #songs

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#children #down #first #lives #months

The real reason your pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing at you. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#head #him #keep #laughing #pro

My own laugh is the real thing and I've had it all my life. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#i #laugh #life #my life #my own

We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#aids #communication #down #each #fight