#yea

Have a working spouse, because you won't earn a living from writing - not at first, if ever. My wife worked for years to support us. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#earn #ever #first #living #spouse

This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

#different #fifty #get #i #me

I think that everyone at any age should ask themselves, 'where do I want to be today, where do I want to be tomorrow, and where do I want to be in a hundred years?' We all have clear answers to those questions. We only have so much time. It's a real shame if we don't spend our lives trying to do that. ↗

— Jack Antonoff

#answers #any #ask #clear #everyone

The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan. ↗

— Fiona Apple

#i #just #me #only #plan

I went to school for about 2 years on a technical course, and I learned a lot. I learned about air mixture ratios and all the stuff; I learned how to draw blood. ↗

— Tom Araya

#air #blood #course #draw #how

Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be as light as possible, to touch the ground gently, to swoop and soar, and to surprise. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#buildings #course #engineers #gently #given

When you're in a club or a theater or even an arena, yeah, you want visuals, you want a good light show. But Slayer has always been about the sound. We have to sound good. It has to be tight. ↗

— Tom Araya

#always #arena #been #club #even

I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write. ↗

— Tom Araya

#i write #just #lyrically #musically #write

I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#am #auctions #charity #currently #doing

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#done #first #i #million #never