#tin

Well just meeting J. K. Rowling was amazing because she created all this world. And all the fans, we all get so obsessed with it and then you met the one person who made it all up. It was just so amazing. And I was just so amazed that that she wrote this book and all of the films have happened. ↗

— Evanna Lynch

#amazing #because #book #created #fans

And that's what I've learned too: writing is key. ↗

— Trish Stratus

#key #learned #too #writing

Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap. Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#crap #day #even #every #every day

Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials. ↗

— Helen Frankenthaler

#difficulty #fascination #learning #materials #medium

I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to New York! They sent it back because it wasn't novel. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#because #i #new #new york #novel

Revelations come when you're in the thick of it, pitting yourself up against something larger than yourself. ↗

— Frank Langella

#come #larger #pitting #revelations #something

He has to do the heavy lifting and the windows and the wash, and also protect the president. ↗

— Alan K. Simpson

#heavy #lifting #president #protect #wash

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. ↗

— Edith Sitwell

#employed #great #keeping #many #now

We were building a - what I thought was a fantastic company. We had great people. We were changing - we were changing the way the marketplace operated. We were creating a market for natural gas and electricity that had never existed before. ↗

— Jeffrey Skilling

#building #changing #company #creating #electricity

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one's tail. ↗

— T. E. Lawrence

#tail #tied #tin #value