#ems

I tend to plan as I write. And I want to leave myself open and the character open to keep on going until it seems to be the time to stop. ↗

— Roddy Doyle

#going #i #i write #keep #leave

I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it seems to be more a matter of inertia than it is of people having some real reason for thinking something else. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#critics #else #encountered #few #having

If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#build #copy #could #effort #factories

I swear to God, I would marry the first person who asked me, just because it seems so completely impossible that anyone would ask. ↗

— Minnie Driver

#ask #asked #because #completely #first

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

#his #i #love #particularly #poems

Suffering has roused them from the sleep of gentle life, and every day fills them with a terrible intoxication. They are now something more than themselves; those we loved were merely happy shadows. ↗

— Georges Duhamel

#every #every day #fills #gentle #happy

Look at the Palestinians with the huge, huge percentage of unemployed. What does that breed? Anyone who's unemployed in the world, you feel there's no meaning and there's a risk that you drift over to something desperate. Yes, we have to tackle the social problems as well. ↗

— Hans Blix

#breed #desperate #does #drift #feel

What surprises me, what amazes me, is that it seems the military people were expecting to stumble on large quantities of gas, chemical weapons and biological weapons. ↗

— Hans Blix

#biological #biological weapons #chemical #expecting #gas

It seems to me monstrous that anyone should believe that the jazz rhythm expresses America. Jazz rhythm expresses the primitive savage. ↗

— Isadora Duncan

#anyone #believe #expresses #jazz #me

They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#advice #fancy #give #had #i