#rite

The great advantage of being a writer is that you can spy on people. You're there, listening to every word, but part of you is observing. Everything is useful to a writer, you see - every scrap, even the longest and most boring of luncheon parties. ↗

— Graham Greene

#being #boring #even #every #everything

A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction. ↗

— Graham Greene

#fiction #journalists #keep #more #more and more

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane. ↗

— Graham Greene

#connected #course #does #filling #fingers

It's our responsibility to pass on what we inherited, not to squander it, but to build on it. ↗

— Christine Gregoire

#inherited #our #pass #responsibility #squander

There's the soundtrack to The French Connection II'I think It's my favorite soundtrack. It hasn't been released. I actually had to go and get the film and just make a recording of it to get the music. ↗

— Jonny Greenwood

#been #connection #favorite #film #french

Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well. ↗

— Germaine Greer

#advise #anyone #brings #children #down

Don't have a favorite subject, I think I want to carry on doing this because I really enjoy it. ↗

— Rupert Grint

#carry #doing #enjoy #favorite #i

For me the stunts are so cool, they're one of my favourite things when we're doing the film. ↗

— Rupert Grint

#doing #favourite #film #me #stunts

Ron was always my favorite character, because I feel like I relate to him, like we've both got red hair, we both like sweets, we've both got lots of brothers and sisters. ↗

— Rupert Grint

#because #both #brothers #character #favorite

I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but two or three. Life is much simpler ignoring reviews and the nasty people who write them. Critics should find meaningful work. ↗

— John Grisham

#find #hate #i #i have learned #ignoring