#why

If there were a better, clearer, shorter way of saying what the fiction says, then why not scrap the fiction? ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

#clearer #fiction #saying #says #scrap

Magic has been something I've been really good at since I was really young. The ability has always come easy to me, I'm not sure why. ↗

— David Copperfield

#always #been #come #easy #good

Richard Pryor is, in my mind, the most honest comedian. He bared his soul to people. I think that's why everybody loved him so much. ↗

— Joe Rogan

#everybody #him #his #honest #i

That's why I haven't been so anxious. But now, lots of people write and say, 'I want to find out what you're doing.' So I know that this book will enlighten them. ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#been #book #doing #enlighten #find

So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask,'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do you want to play this instrument? What do you want to do?' ↗

— Ornette Coleman

#came #i #improvise #instance #instrument

I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins. ↗

— Jackie Collins

#am #back #because #better #collins

'Urban Renewal' was sweet because I've been - unfairly, I would say - plonked in the middle of the road because of a handful of songs. It came at a good time for me, because you do take a bit of a browbeating and, as you get older, you become better at accepting it and realizing why it happens. ↗

— Phil Collins

#because #become #been #better #bit

Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#here #i #i am #impossible #knowing

I always wanted to be a snake. Every time I saw a snake on TV. I'd always say 'Why not me?' ↗

— Dane Cook

#every #every time #i #i always #me

I like things that are kind of eclectic, when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It's where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance, where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. That's my style, and that's what my work is about. ↗

— Giambattista Valli

#against #ancient #another #architecture #bangs