#secretly

We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete. ↗

— Ross MacDonald

#bugged #burglars #caught #clues #concrete

I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian before I sold my first book, and I still volunteer my time to help with animal welfare causes. So that is a career I would be happy to return to - while still secretly writing strange stories back in my doctor's office. ↗

— James Rollins

#animal #back #be happy #before #book

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#done #flowing #good #good man #green

The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication. ↗

— Raymond Chandler

#his #however #man #moment #paper

One of the things that happens to people in grief is they secretly think they're crazy, because they realize they are thinking things that don't make sense. ↗

— Joan Didion

#crazy #grief #happens #make #people

Secretly, I had always wanted to go to Vegas, and have my own really bad act! ↗

— Sigourney Weaver

#always #bad #go #had #i

My parents thought all actors were secretly drug addicts, except for Clint Eastwood, whom they admired. But they thought it was very unlikely that I would ever be Clint Eastwood. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#clint #clint eastwood #eastwood #ever #except

I was kind of secretly hoping one of my kids would go out and make a million bucks. So when they put me in a home, at least I'll have a window with a view. ↗

— Joe Biden

#go #home #hoping #i #kids

I was a big sci-fi fantasy geek when I was younger... secretly, in my room. ↗

— Christina Ricci

#fantasy #geek #i #room #sci-fi

I didn't think marriage worked. I thought everybody who was married was secretly miserable - that it was something they just put up with for their children. ↗

— Salma Hayek

#everybody #i #just #marriage #married