#yin

For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#badly #either #hear #listening #lying

I had passed through the entire British education system studying literature, culminating in three years of reading English at Oxford, and they'd never told me about something as basic as the importance of point of view in fiction! ↗

— Philip Pullman

#basic #british #education #english #entire

What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write a page of one than I'd learned in seven years or so of trying to write criticism. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#criticism #help #i #learned #more

Let me do five of those, and then some slower ones for those kids that can't understand what I'm sayin. ↗

— Big Pun

#i #kids #me #ones #sayin

Hospitals are very extreme places - you can be in a maternity room one minute, and by someone's bedside as they're dying the next. ↗

— James Purefoy

#dying #extreme #hospitals #maternity #minute

I was desperately unhappy trying to adjust to the world. ↗

— Al Purdy

#desperately #i #trying #unhappy #world

I really like playing people who are exciting to watch and who burn brightly. ↗

— James Purefoy

#burn #exciting #i #like #people

I'm on record saying that HBO is the best television company in the world, and I believe they are. I think they absolutely understand how to make television that is really, really vital and interesting and visceral, and all the things that television really should be. ↗

— James Purefoy

#believe #best #company #hbo #how

If you find yourself always playing the villain, or if you find yourself being typecast into a corner where you're not happy then that's probably rather miserable, but if I have been typecast I am quite happy about it. ↗

— James Purefoy

#always #am #been #being #corner

I liked playing Morph in Mash and Peas and doing Phil Daniels in the Blur Rock Profile was a giggle too. ↗

— Paul Putner

#daniels #doing #giggle #i #liked