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The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all "bottom line" editors; everything depends on the money. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#bottom #bottom line #depends #editors #everything

Painting is damned difficult - you always think you've got it, but you haven't. ↗

— Paul Cezanne

#damned #difficult #got #haven #painting

I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#great #great depression #hope #i #i think

I loved school. But when I started 'Party of Five' in the fifth grade, I was taken out of school and tutored on the set. ↗

— Lacey Chabert

#five #grade #i #loved #out

I need to decide whether to apply for college or delay it for a couple of years while I pursue some more acting projects. Right now I'm trying to sort things out, so I can make the right choices. ↗

— Lacey Chabert

#apply #choices #college #couple #decide

As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I could write about World War Two from a totally new place. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#clicked #could #exciting #i #new

When you write something it has to hit the level that you accept as being good. ↗

— Will Champion

#being #good #hit #level #something

I believe my publisher has shown a great deal of faith in me over a lot of years but I'm not prepared to be so arrogant to say that the long-term literary value of my work would compensate them for a financial failure. ↗

— Andrew Vachss

#believe #compensate #deal #failure #faith

I was surprised that my wife thought it was a good idea, then again with my agent, another woman, then my editor, another woman - in spite of the fact that all three of them reacted positively I still have this fear. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#agent #another #another woman #editor #fact

I wasn't involved, except to the degree that they sent me drafts of the script as the writer turned them in. They asked me at one point to write a memo about what I thought of it. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#asked #degree #drafts #except #i