#sit

Of course, you always think about how it will be read. I always aim for a reading in one sitting. ↗

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up. ↗

— Joan Didion

#daily #day #different #down #dread

Being broke is a temporary situation. Being poor is a state of mind. ↗

— Mike Todd

#being broke #broke #mind #poor #situation

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#children #down #first #lives #months

We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#aids #communication #down #each #fight

I have enormous respect for Tom Daschle. The NRA has not yet taken a formal position on which I'm aware of on this matter, and I think Tom may be just getting a little ahead of things. ↗

— John Dingell

#aware #daschle #enormous #formal #getting

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#compose #composition #down #every #every time

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. ↗

— Walt Disney

#curiosity #curious #doing #doors #down

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#government #long #opposition #secure #without

There is no education like adversity. ↗