#pub

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks. ↗

— Erica Jong

#also #being #cover #ever #fool

I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets. ↗

— Erica Jong

#became #even #first #getting #i

I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing. ↗

— Erica Jong

#bankrupt #book #disappearing #down #effectively

More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#future #hold #more #must #officials

If we promise as public officials, we must deliver. If we as public officials propose, we must produce. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#must #officials #produce #promise #propose

We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#destiny #down #find #founders #government

I've had three novels published, and I was working a little bit in theater in Ireland. I wrote one film script just to see what it would turn out like. ↗

— Neil Jordan

#film #had #i #ireland #just

One of the things you learn being in the public eye is that you have the ability to raise awareness about serious issues, and, in the process, really help people. ↗

— Mena Suvari

#about #awareness #being #eye #help

Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare. ↗

— Vanessa Williams

#almost #control #eye #feet #giving

I prize the conditions under which I have lived because they have permitted me to choose my opportunities, to inquire into such matters as interested me, and to publish what I believed to be true, uncontrolled by any central authority. ↗

— Arthur Keith

#authority #be true #because #believed #central