#thin

My own laugh is the real thing and I've had it all my life. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#i #laugh #life #my life #my own

It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it's a lot more emotionally raw. ↗

— Cory Doctorow

#books #deliberately #emotionally #i #i think

Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do. ↗

— Cory Doctorow

#find #going #head #how #i

I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#am #bookstore #card #clerks #credit

I like commas. I detest semi-colons - I don't think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn't need them, they were fly-specks on the page. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#belong #commas #detest #found #gave

I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of rejections. I just got very lucky and it happened quickly for me. I don't feel like I'm a prodigy or something. ↗

— Anthony Doerr

#feel #getting #gone #got #happened

There's this large trend - I think the next trend in the Web, sort of Web 2.0 - which is to have users really express, offer, and market their own content, their own persona, their identity. ↗

— John Doerr

#express #i #i think #identity #large

I don't think I'd ever be cruel to an animal. ↗

— David Duchovny

#cruel #ever #i #think

There's nothing better than working up a good sweat. ↗

— Jennie Finch

#good #nothing #sweat #than #up

No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#adolescence #cool #create #dad #establish