#them

I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#balk #book #certainly #children #easier

I can say now: all the combatants who participated in the fight for freedom in South America came to Algeria; it's from there that all those who fought left. We trained them, we arranged for the weapons to reach them, we created networks. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#america #arranged #came #combatants #created

I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#advise #any #beginning #consider #draft

It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#make #second #sing #songs #them

You get to know them, they get to know you and see if they like you. Then they'll vote on you to become a prospect. You have to be sponsored by a Hells Angel. ↗

— Chuck Zito

#become #get #hells #know #like

I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#forward #good #hard #i #i think

Other men wear white suits in summer and it doesn't seem to bother them. But my white suit seems to be a little whiter than theirs. I think also that it may have something written on the back of it, although I can't find it when I take the suit off. ↗

— Robert Benchley

#although #back #bother #find #i

We still want to idealize moms, and sometimes we want to idealize actresses who are moms, too. I know that's something I've experienced, but we're all just doing the best we can and we're all trying to raise our kids and talk to them about everything that needs to be discussed. ↗

— Annette Bening

#best #discussed #doing #everything #experienced

I've been around for such a long time. My first hit record was over 20 years ago and the people who bought my records then are married now and they probably still play these records and their children like them. ↗

— Bonnie Tyler

#around #been #bought #children #first

Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#having #importance #know #leaders #lives