#ss

Please drop a note to the clerk of the weather, and have a good, rousing snow-storm -- say on the twenty-second. None of your meek, gentle, nonsensical, shilly-shallying snow-storms; not the sort where the flakes float lazily down from the sky as if they didn't care whether they ever got here or not, and then melt away as soon as they touch the earth, but a regular business-like whizzing, whirring, blurring, cutting snow-storm, warranted to freeze and stay on! ↗

— Kate Douglas Wiggin

#business

But she'd forgotten. She'd forgotten because she'd been so busy thinking of her own fucking feelings. As if she fucking mattered. ↗

— Stacia Kane

#business

American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up. My idea was: Enjoy baking, sell your bread, people like it, sell more. Keep the bakery going because you're making good food and people are happy. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#business

I think novelists are in the education business, really, but they're not teaching you times tables, they are teaching you responsiveness and morality and to make nuanced judgments. And really to just make the planet look a bit richer when you go out into the street. ↗

— Martin Amis

#novels #writing #business

...the irrational will have its say, perhaps because 'irrational' is the wrong word for it. ↗

— Robertson Davies

#business

She wanted a degree in business technology, not to be the next freaking Nora Roberts. ↗

— Mari Carr

#business

If you do shit gold, Father, find a privy and get busy, he wanted to say, but he knew better. --Tyrion Lannister ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#business

No business can be made easier to do than excuses are to make. ↗

— Orrin Woodward

#success #business

Sure, everything is ending," Jules said, "but not yet. ↗

— Jennifer Egan

#change #time-passing #youth #change

Predictions are uttered by prophets (free of charge); by clairvoyants (who usually charge a fee, and are therefore more honored in their day than prophets); and by futurologists (salaried). Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist's business is lying. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#business