#ten

I'm an efficient, good, professional reporter. But I also write. And so what I try to do is write about places that I know that I care about intensely and write about them in a way that conveys the fact that I care. ↗

— Alma Guillermoprieto

#also #care #conveys #efficient #fact

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#earn #earns #even #given #happiness

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. ↗

— William Strunk, Jr.

#contain #drawing #lines #machine #paragraph

There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#between #box #common #could #deal

A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk. ↗

— Alec Guinness

#muffled #silk #silver #superb #tenor

If you look at my career, I've never gone to a team that had fulfilled their potential. ↗

— Ruud Gullit

#fulfilled #gone #had #i #look

I haven't written anything in four years. I'm sort of dried up. ↗

— Thom Gunn

#dried #four #haven #i #sort

We control the content of our dreams. ↗