#then

I think the hardest part of writing is revising. And by that I mean the following: A novelist has to create the piece of marble and then chip away to find the figure in it. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#chip #create #figure #find #following

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty. ↗

— Dennis Potter

#poetry #poets #puberty #reach #stop

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#artist #building #buys #creates #equal

I was the youngest in my family. When the other kids went to school, my mother would make them breakfast and then she would go back to bed for an hour, so I was sort of babysat by television. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#bed #breakfast #family #go #hour

I locate that special problem in a character and then try to understand it. That's the genesis of all my work. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#genesis #i #locate #problem #special

Let me do five of those, and then some slower ones for those kids that can't understand what I'm sayin. ↗

— Big Pun

#i #kids #me #ones #sayin

If you find yourself always playing the villain, or if you find yourself being typecast into a corner where you're not happy then that's probably rather miserable, but if I have been typecast I am quite happy about it. ↗

— James Purefoy

#always #am #been #being #corner

Nobody and nothing will stop Russia on the road to strengthening democracy and ensuring human rights and freedoms. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#ensuring #freedoms #human #human rights #nobody

The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#deliberately #interpreted #our #strengthening #times

It's about listening first, then selling. ↗

— Erik Qualman

#first #listening #selling #then