#si

The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#because #catharsis #concerned #i #i write

Movies are as old as psychoanalysis. So if I were to put you or anyone else on a couch and say, 'Tell me your favorite movies,' it would be a way of psychoanalyzing you. ↗

— Andrew Sarris

#couch #else #favorite #i #me

You want to do something, you want to have the bravery to do something original. And there will always be people who are like, the classicists who are like, 'No, but it's got to have this.' In life, there are people like that attached to every single thing that there is. These are the same people that are like, still playing vinyl. ↗

— Peter Sarsgaard

#attached #bravery #every #got #life

I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation. ↗

— Siegfried Sassoon

#been #believe #change #clearly #done

Seventy-five percent of women who smoke would like to quit, and yet only two to three percent quit every year... It's significant because we can help women quit smoking. ↗

— David Satcher

#every #help #like #only #percent

The musician is perhaps the most modest of animals, but he is also the proudest. It is he who invented the sublime art of ruining poetry. ↗

— Erik Satie

#art #invented #modest #most #musician

When she became very ill with heart trouble, I saw that it would be impossible for my parents to provide for my studies, and I obtained their permission to go to sea to make a career for myself there. ↗

— Fritz Sauckel

#career #go #heart #i #ill

I often think about image, and image is something that - but in truth, the real artistic process, as I've understood it, is 95 percent intuitive, like seat-of-the-pants, at-the-moment decisions that you can't even explain, you know? ↗

— George Saunders

#artistic #decisions #even #explain #i

The German Doctors say that persons sensible of harmony have one sense more than others. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#german #harmony #more #others #persons

Stories, as much as we like to talk about them, retrospectively, as emanations of theme or worldview or intention, occur primarily as technical objects when they're being written. Or at least they do for me. They're the result of thousands of decisions made at speed during revision. ↗

— George Saunders

#being #decisions #during #intention #least