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It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens. ↗

— Donna Tartt

#comments #happens #hard #i #influence

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you. ↗

— Susan Sarandon

#develop #empathy #imagination #opens #powers

Movies are just ridiculously expensive. ↗

— Anthony Michael Hall

#just #movies #ridiculously

He who opens a school door, closes a prison. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#closes #door #opens #prison #school

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle. ↗

— Albrecht Durer

#avoided #devotes #evil #happens #himself

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older. ↗

— Mario Andretti

#happens #older #wait #you

She not only expects the worst, but makes the worst of it when it happens. ↗

— Michael Arlen

#happens #makes #only #she #worst

You know those award shows. The cliche is that it's an honor just to be nominated, but that happens to be true. Whoever wins it in the end, I don't know, sometimes it feels arbitrary. Sometimes it feels like it's deserving. ↗

— Hank Azaria

#award #award shows #be true #cliche #deserving

Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense. ↗

— Fawn M. Brodie

#begins #character #crawling #curiosity #flesh

I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're absolutely a lot harder to write than romances. They take more plotting and real character development. ↗

— Sandra Brown

#books #character #character development #development #harder