#up

I hate first drafts, and it never gets easier. People always wonder what kind of superhero power they'd like to have. I wanted the ability for someone to just open up my brain and take out the entire first draft and lay it down in front of me so I can just focus on the second, third and fourth drafts. ↗

— Judy Blume

#always #brain #down #draft #drafts

I'm really quite bad at coming up with plot ideas. I like to create characters and just see what will happen to them when I let them loose! ↗

— Judy Blume

#characters #coming #create #happen #i

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature. ↗

— Harold Coffin

#awkward #catching #father #father time #middle

What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters. ↗

— Judy Blume

#get #how #i #i remember #morning

When I was growing up, I dreamed about becoming a cowgirl, a detective, a spy, a great actress, or a ballerina. Not a dentist, like my father, or a homemaker, like my mother - and certainly not a writer, although I always loved to read. ↗

— Judy Blume

#actress #although #always #ballerina #becoming

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will. ↗

— Clint Eastwood

#believe #come #forge #going #i

Mr. Speaker, for the last 5 years I have been working with a bipartisan group of my colleagues to make it illegal to continue the barbaric practice of game bird and illegal dog fighting. ↗

— Earl Blumenauer

#been #bipartisan #bird #colleagues #continue

It was not easy with a newborn, asking your wife to give up the family home and your security. ↗

— Heston Blumenthal

#easy #family #give #home #newborn

We won the war, but we are losing the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq. It is past time for a new approach, one that relies on accountability, responsibility, and phasing down the scope of our military commitment. ↗

— Earl Blumenauer

#approach #commitment #down #iraq #losing

I still love doing what I do, and I'm really lucky to get up in the morning and want to go to work. ↗

— Heston Blumenthal

#get #go #i #i do #love