#ten

Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather rough translation of the book they'd intended to write. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#being #being honest #book #finished #here

I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that closely resembles the sentence I first set down. I just find that I have to keep zapping and zapping the English language until it starts to behave in some way that vaguely matches my intentions. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#again #along #behave #closely #constantly

You have started the book with this bubble over your head that contains a cathedral full of fire - that contains a novel so vast and great and penetrating and bright and dark that it will put all other novels ever written to shame. And then, as you get towards the end, you begin to realise, no, it's just this book. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#book #bright #bubble #cathedral #contains

Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#good #listeners #long #politicians #very

There are 10,000 local governments in the state of New York. Ten thousand! Town, village, lighting district, water district, sewer district, a special district to count the other districts in case you missed a district. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#count #district #districts #governments #lighting

There is no dispute that Albany needs to be changed. There is no dispute that the current situation in Albany is untenable. Nobody knows that better than I do. ↗

— Andrew Cuomo

#better #changed #current #current situation #dispute

I was the last Republican lieutenant governor and it's been over 20 years. ↗

— Mike Curb

#governor #i #last #lieutenant #over

Women have demanded and gotten better jobs and more power. But the one thing we deserve is a better relationship with ourselves. ↗

— Ann Curry

#demanded #deserve #gotten #jobs #more

They put me in a whole body suit, from my neck to my ankles. It was so bad, I couldn't straighten my legs. ↗

— Kieran Culkin

#bad #body #i #legs #me

I don't mind if somebody comes up to me and shakes my hand, but if I'm in the middle of a restaurant and somebody asks me for a picture, I can be a jerk and say no, or I can say yes and draw more attention to myself, which is exactly the opposite of what I want. ↗

— Macaulay Culkin

#attention #comes #draw #exactly #hand