#bone

The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in. ↗

— Dick Wolf

#book #character #compelling #draw #drove

I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they're not calling me up and asking me for dinner. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#asking #because #bone #books #calling

I'd sit around dreaming that the boys I saw at shows or at work - the boys with silver earrings and big boots - would tell me I was beautiful, take me home and feed me Thai food or omelets and undress me and make love to me all night with the palm trees whispering windsongs about a tortured gleaming city and the moonlight like flame melting our candle bodies. ↗

— Francesca Lia Block

#dreams #love #youth #beauty

I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show. ↗

— Andrew Wyeth

#bone #fall #feel #i #landscape

The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#bone #closer #cuts #err #establishing

During the mission, Walter Jones, a team member was given a package containing bone fragments by a Lao. The source said they were from a crash site. He presented photographs showing himself in company with others digging around obvious aircraft debris. ↗

— Bo Gritz

#around #bone #company #containing #crash

Gaming is the backbone of Nevada's economy. ↗

— Kenny Guinn

#economy #gaming #nevada

They shaved a little piece of bone off my small toe. You see, you balance yourself a certain way and this toe had grown under the other ones. So he cut it loose, where I could balance myself and it makes me walk straight. ↗

— Merle Haggard

#bone #certain #certain way #could #cut

I have to make my bones with Hollywood to get in. And when I do maybe I'll metamorphose from Mr. Muscles or whatever it is I am now and become an irascible tosser. ↗

— Tom Hardy

#become #bones #get #hollywood #i

It's a dog eat dog world, and Mr. Perfect is a Milk Bone. ↗

— Bobby Heenan

#dog #eat #milk #mr #perfect