#then

You read a book from beginning to end. You run a business the opposite way. You start with the end, and then you do everything you must to reach it. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#book #business #end #everything #must

Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things. ↗

— Morris West

#all things #caught #center #define #existence

And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people. ↗

— Morris West

#always #enough #i #interest #interests

If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man. ↗

— J. Paul Getty

#count #man #money #rich #rich man

Actually, I've done it the other way so many times where you rehearse the band and you do the whole thing with lights, the show and the crew - everything. Then you see what happens and you're already committed to dates. I'm just sort of putting out feelers this way. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#already #band #committed #crew #dates

I read The Bell Jar, and then I read her memoir and her diaries, and a third book, an outside opinion. Just the way she made the pillows so neat on the oven door. It just seems to be the opposite of, if you're going to take your life, in a horrible rage it happens. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#book #diaries #door #going #happens

Right now, it hasn't affected my music other than the fact that I don't have time to write any of it. That's no different from when I first started and I lived at home. I would play the guitar in the afternoon and then my mom or my dad would come home and I'd have to quit. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#afternoon #any #come #dad #different

Then again, I think about high school every day and I think about being a little kid every day too. ↗

— Paul Westerberg

#again #being #day #every #every day

A friend of mine, now retired, was then a major exec at a major bank, and one of her jobs, the last four years, was the farewell interview. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#farewell #four #friend #her #interview

If you think of movie studio executives, say, as society, then I root for the independent producers. ↗

— Donald E. Westlake

#i #independent #movie #producers #root