#til

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#believe #change #change the world #i #immediate

Theater is still a medium which attracts young writers. You'd think that it would be all over by now, with television and film. But it's not. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#film #medium #now #over #still

I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing. ↗

— Rex Stout

#fun #i #more #reading #still

I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat. ↗

— J. Michael Straczynski

#getting #head #heat #i #i can

Convinced that the attachment of colonies to the metropolis, depends infinitely more upon moral and religious feeling, than political arrangement, or even commercial advantage, I cannot but lament that more is not done to instill it into the minds of the people. ↗

— John Strachan

#arrangement #attachment #cannot #colonies #commercial

But Racine's extraordinary powers as a writer become still more obvious when we consider that besides being a great poet he is also a great psychologist. ↗

— Lytton Strachey

#become #being #besides #consider #extraordinary

I didn't want to be 40 or 50 years old and still playing clubs, I didn't feel like I was making any progress, and I actually gave the band notice at one point. I began to have doubts about my abilities. ↗

— George Strait

#actually #any #band #began #clubs

I'm just not going to tour. One point I want to get across to everybody is that I'm still going to make records and I may still do some events. It's not the last time I'm onstage. It's been a part of my life for too long to quit everything. I have done it since the '80s, and I think it's time now to maybe see if I can live without that part. ↗

— George Strait

#been #done #events #everybody #everything

I think the best American poetry is the poetry that utilizes the resources of poetry rather than exploits the defects or triumphs of the poet's personality. ↗

— Mark Strand

#best #defects #exploits #i #i think

On gym days, I don't get to my desk until 4 in the afternoon, and everything except bedtime and the appointment with the liquid narcotic is pushed back a bit. ↗

— Peter Straub

#appointment #back #bedtime #bit #days