#starts

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill. ↗

— Babe Ruth

#feel #quit #run #should #starts

I remember when we were making 'They Call It Pro Football,' which was our 'Citizen Kane.' The first line is 'It starts with a whistle and ends with a gun.' ↗

— Steve Sabol

#citizen #citizen kane #ends #first #football

Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget of news, even a startling insight, halfway down the column, directed at the politiscenti. When pressed for time, the savvy reader starts there. ↗

— William Safire

#directed #down #even #halfway #happened

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar. ↗

— George Saunders

#character #drama #feel #foster #half

So for me the approach has become to go into a story not really sure of what I want to say, try to find some little seed crystal of interest, a sentence or an image or an idea, and as much as possible divest myself of any deep ideas about it. And then by this process of revision, mysteriously it starts to accrete meanings as you go. ↗

— George Saunders

#any #approach #become #crystal #deep

There's a really nice moment in the life of a piece of writing where the writer starts to get a feeling of it outgrowing him - or he starts to see it having a life of its own that doesn't have anything to do with his ego or his desire to 'be a good writer.' ↗

— George Saunders

#desire #ego #feeling #get #good

If someone starts agreeing with me, I don't like it. Out of pique, I become something else. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

#become #else #i #like #me

Winning starts with beginning. ↗

— Robert H. Schuller

#starts #winning

I'm always that annoying person that pulls out the camera in the middle of dinner and starts taking candids. ↗

— Maria Sharapova

#annoying #camera #dinner #i #middle

Once the return tide starts, it will be impossible to stem it, and it will prove our undoing. ↗

— Moshe Sharett

#once #our #prove #return #starts