#pear

I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#appearance #artificial #background #book #calculated

Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#music #shakespeare #music

To weep is to make less the depth of grief. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#grief #sorrow #shakespeare

Make a list of all the varieties of aliens you can come up with. (And if it's less than 3,000, then THE PEARS ARE LAUGHING AT YOU, MY FRIEND.)" -Scott Westerfeld from NaNoWriMo Pep Talk. ↗

— Scott Westerfeld

#pears #writers-block #writers-block

I feel like any single woman of color who's been onstage has a Shakespeare monologue in her back pocket, and a monologue from 'For Colored Girls.' It's just part of what you should have, as a woman of color. ↗

— Kerry Washington

#back #been #color #colored #feel

I'm disappearing, avoiding most things. ↗

— Syd Barrett

#disappearing #i #most #things

For this new-married man approaching here, Whose salt imagination yet hath wrong'd Your well defended honour, you must pardon For Mariana's sake: but as he adjudged your brother,-- Being criminal, in double violation Of sacred chastity and of promise-breach Thereon dependent, for your brother's life,-- The very mercy of the law cries out Most audible, even from his proper tongue, 'An Angelo for Claudio, death for death!' Haste still pays haste, and leisure answers leisure; Like doth quit like, and MEASURE still FOR MEASURE ↗

— William Shakespeare

#measure-for-measure #shakespeare #death

I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. ↗

— Gore Vidal

#chance #i #miss #never #sex

Any hand can condem, but it takes a helping hand to build. ↗

— Nate Spears

#nate-spears #passage #poet #poetry #quote

You're fun to look at," decided Galinda. Boq's face fell. "Fun?" he said. I'd give a lot to achieve fun," Elphaba said. "The best I usually hope for is stirring, and when people say that they're usually referring to digestion- ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#ugly #life