#wanting

The most important basis of any novel is wanting to be someone else, and this means creating a character. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#basis #character #creating #else #important

In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects. ↗

— David Knopfler

#behind #biographical #clean #come #day

I used to hate doing color. I hated transparency film. The way I did color was by not wanting to know what kind of film was in my camera. ↗

— Helmut Newton

#color #did #doing #film #hate

How can you possibly do everything you want to do in life if you start doing a bunch of things twice? ↗

— Lorii Myers

#humor-inspirational #no-excuses #wanting #humor

According lecture, entire effort United States to incite desire, inflict want, inspire demand. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#american-society #consumerism #wanting #inspirational

I can remember running around at the age of 3, wanting to play golf, cricket and football. I was always active, one way or another, driving my parents mad. ↗

— Ian Botham

#age #always #another #around #cricket

I started out wanting to coach football. ↗

— Lee Majors

#football #i #out #started #wanting

I can understand wanting to be invisible and mistrusting people and wanting to understand everything before you engage with the world. ↗

— Rooney Mara

#engage #everything #i #i can #invisible

I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#certain #created #did #even #ever

Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place. ↗

— Moliere

#better place #follies #greater #make #none