#thing

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of. ↗

— John Irving

#building #craft #i #never #novel

When I was still in prep school - 14, 15 - I started keeping notebooks, journals. I started writing, almost like landscape drawing or life drawing. I never kept a diary, I never wrote about my day and what happened to me, but I described things. ↗

— John Irving

#almost #day #described #diary #drawing

When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel. ↗

— Harold Kushner

#body #carry #feel #feeling #get

The intention was to shoot short films that can exist as shorts independently, but when I put them all together, there are things that echo through them like the dialogue repeats; the situation is always the same, the way they're shot is very simple and the same. ↗

— Jim Jarmusch

#dialogue #echo #exist #films #i

The things I really learned, I learned from watching my parents. They take care of business. Always have. ↗

— Kevin Eubanks

#business #care #i #learned #parents

Doing something like that, quite radically changing your approach to sound in one go, could leave you high and dry. It's happened before where people have changed direction and then everyone's stopped liking their music. ↗

— Tom Jenkinson

#before #changed #changing #could #direction

In video you are starting with nothing but a black screen. There's no game there. With pinball you at least start with that basic concept, but not with video. The challenge of going from no game to something today is only different because you have to create something so damn fun people will pay $1.00 every two minutes to play it. ↗

— Eugene Jarvis

#because #black #challenge #concept #create

Nothing endears so much a friend as sorrow for his death. The pleasure of his company has not so powerful an influence. ↗

— David Hume

#death #endears #friend #his #influence

The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake. ↗

— Basil Hume

#confidence #easter #gift #god #goodness

The month of January, we were number one. Now, this is something we're proud of, because we recognize we're up against a formidable operation there at CNN. ↗

— Brit Hume

#because #cnn #formidable #january #month