#y

At most I'll spend three or four hours daily, sometimes less. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#four #hours #i #less #most

But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#c-s-lewis #life #living #play #religion

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#empty #fatiguing #futile #i #suppose

If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

#difficulty #entire #forever #free #lives

The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all. ↗

— Hilaire Belloc

#him #out #small #take #very

Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#door #everybody #his #insignificance #keep

What is art but a way of seeing? ↗

— Saul Bellow

#seeing #way

Goodness is achieved not in a vacuum, but in the company of other men, attended by love. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#attended #company #goodness #love #men

She was what we used to call a suicide blonde - dyed by her own hand. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#call #dyed #hand #her #own

I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#backbone #behold #characters #enough #given