#your

But it is nice to know that you have other races lined up, because sometimes you can get so focused on your next marathon that it can become kind of unhealthy in some ways. So it's nice to have something else to slap you in the face and say, all right, there is life after the Olympics. ↗

— Ryan Hall

#because #become #else #face #focused

The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

#else #endeavors #first #first time #idea

The way you look for songs, you find yourself looking for little signals and clues about life and how things are. ↗

— Tom T. Hall

#clues #find #how #life #little

I imagined that it might be awkward to talk to your wife about her performance, so going into it I was a little nervous. But doing it was actually a wonderfully inspiring experience. ↗

— Lasse Hallstrom

#actually #awkward #doing #experience #going

One is, that they will feel about you that you're going to make something wonderful for them. And they help you by expressing themselves. Not telling you how to do it, but encouraging you and accepting your vision and working with you on that kind of a level. ↗

— Lawrence Halprin

#accepting #encouraging #expressing #feel #going

I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#believe #believe in yourself #else #hobby #i

I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#especially #fantasy #fiction #horror #how

My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#characters #constantly #friends #give #i

Nothing wrong with making money or doing what you need to do to sell, but I think it shows when you're writing something to pay the bills and when you're writing something because it's really your version of the world. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#bills #doing #i #i think #making

Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#came #down #end #get #goal