#pen

Even if what you're working on doesn't go anywhere, it will help you with the next thing you're doing. Make yourself available for something to happen. Give it a shot. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#available #doing #even #give #go

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#carpentry #hard #just #literature #material

For a London play, rehearsal time would be four weeks for the entire show. In films, I'd spend six weeks on the big dance numbers to get them perfect before the actual shooting. ↗

— Jessie Matthews

#before #big #dance #entire #films

When you're just open but not honest, then you start free-associating garbage. ↗

— John Mayer

#honest #just #open #start #then

I've already lived one full life, and so now I'm about to endeavor to see what else the good Lord has in store for me, and I'm wide open. ↗

— Valerie Simpson

#already #else #endeavor #full #good

Eastern Washington families and businesses should be able to deduct every penny of state and local sales tax they pay throughout the year from their federal tax bill, especially when people in most states are deducting their state income taxes. ↗

— Cathy McMorris

#bill #businesses #deduct #eastern #especially

Mr. Obama's approach to engagement to some degree makes him dependent on people who wish neither him nor America well. This doesn't have to end badly and I hope that it doesn't - but it's not an ideal position after one's first year in power. ↗

— Walter Russell Mead

#america #approach #badly #degree #dependent

Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the way in which contagion spread. ↗

— Charles Jules Henry Nicole

#knew #me #most #nothing #open

On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#body #cents #copy #dollar #eighty

The new independent spirit at Warner Music is a perfect fit for a stand-alone label like Maverick. ↗

— Guy Oseary

#independent #label #like #maverick #music