#things

I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the story itself that will carry me, and the reader, from beginning to end. Second, the story has to weave through larger themes that can illuminate the world of the subject. ↗

— David Maraniss

#am #arc #beginning #book #carry

You never know how things are going to go. I think you hope that people are going to dig what you do and that you're going to get the chance to do it on a really comfortable level. ↗

— Amanda Marshall

#comfortable #dig #get #go #going

It's better for me to go up against someone's passion with my passion and then clarifying something that he wrote. Then I know how to work around certain things. ↗

— Penny Marshall

#around #better #certain #certain things #go

I am sure that no traveler seeing things through author spectacles can see them as they are. ↗

— Harriet Martineau

#author #i #i am #see #seeing

It can have its effect only through the intervention of God, inasmuch as in the ideas of God a monad rightly demands that God, in regulating the rest from the beginning of things, should have regard to itself. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#demands #effect #god #ideas #inasmuch

I just don't want to talk about my personal life. I feel like it's mine, I'm not trying to promote it. It's nice to have things that are your own, that you value enough that you don't have to use to sell a movie. ↗

— Jennifer Jason Leigh

#enough #feel #i #i feel #i feel like

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose. ↗

— Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

#certain things #his #lose #over #things

Small things have a way of overmastering the great. This small press can destroy a kingdom. ↗

— Sonya Levien

#destroy #great #kingdom #press #small

Good schools, good jobs, good government. These are not unreasonable demands. But sadly, some of our people have already lost heart and have left Hawaii to look for these things elsewhere. ↗

— Linda Lingle

#demands #elsewhere #good #good government #good jobs

I want to do a little bit of everything. I love sci-fi. I think it's more the characters that draw me towards things. I like strong women. I'm very interested in futuristic stuff, anything. ↗

— Sabrina Lloyd

#bit #characters #draw #everything #futuristic