#w

Women like silent men. They think they're listening. ↗

— Marcel Achard

#listening #men #silent #think #women

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship. ↗

— Marcel Achard

#courtship #made #never #only #politics

Comedy, drama, Westerns, sci-fi... it's all fine if the story's compelling and the character is interesting to me. I do like action a lot. ↗

— Jensen Ackles

#character #comedy #compelling #drama #fine

Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#constant #create #different #effort #given

The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money. ↗

— Marcel Achard

#comparable #easy #finally #first #later

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#brought #door #him #his #knocks

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#done #repair #sometimes #take #ten

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#mouths #old #old people #our #people

Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have to begin to learn to rule ourselves again. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#away #begin #democracy #learn #ourselves

Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in almost automatically because the characters are now pulling the story. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#almost #automatically #because #characters #come