#time

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#compose #composition #down #every #every time

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future. ↗

— Walt Disney

#change #conditions #constantly #focused #future

I'm lucky enough that directors sometimes seek me out for little projects that people don't even know about, that just surface later on. ↗

— Laura Dern

#directors #enough #even #i #just

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is one of the greatest films of all time. ↗

— Laura Dern

#goes #greatest #mr #smith #time

The boarding-school experience in Paris was very hard, I didn't put up with it very well. I was sick all the time, or in any case frail, on the edge of a nervous breakdown. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#breakdown #case #edge #experience #frail

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules. ↗

— Wayne Dyer

#emphasizing #ethics #live #one day #one day at a time

And what makes me happy now has changed as well... Its one thing to play in a bar or at a biker festival, and hear a guy who's been drinking beer all day come up and tell you how good you are. For a long time in your life that will make you happy. ↗

— Rick Derringer

#bar #been #beer #changed #come

I do not say that one who is vegetarian is full of compassion and one who is not, is otherwise. We sometimes find people, who are vegetarians, are very bad people. ↗

— Morarji Desai

#bad people #compassion #find #full #i

Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before? ↗

— Joan Didion

#anyone #before #choice #choices #devoid

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up. ↗

— Joan Didion

#daily #day #different #down #dread