#sca

Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#best #different #discard #every #figure

All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go. ↗

— Charles Cotton

#below #blessings #go #i #like

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible. ↗

— Ram Dass

#free #possible #think #you

I guess the bigger you dream, the further you have to fall if you don't get it, so it can be a bit of a scary thing to be that ambitious. ↗

— Elizabeth Debicki

#bigger #bit #dream #fall #further

We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#lot #scary #see #teens #them

Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex. ↗

— Jerry Rubin

#because #fragile #inside #men #most

The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art. If you try to run away from it, if you are scared to go to the brink, you are lost. ↗

— John Foster Dulles

#art #away #brink #get #getting

There was a time when it would be a great scandal if you announced you were going to be an actor. ↗

— Julian Sands

#announced #going #great #scandal #time

If you think of a work of fiction as a kind of scale model of the world, then the positive valences - where things turn out better than you thought they would - ought to be in there somewhere, too. ↗

— George Saunders

#fiction #kind #model #ought #out

It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention. ↗

— Brendan Gill

#level #nature #new #new yorker #often