#enter

Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center. ↗

— Adam Johnson

#book #center #character #imagine #literary

Writing detective stories is about writing light literature, for entertainment. It isn't primarily a question of writing propaganda or classical literature. ↗

— Steig Larsson

#classical #detective #detective stories #entertainment #light

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#bold #both #conquers #difficulties #diminishes

Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers. ↗

— Brian Lumley

#entertain #entertainment #entertainment business #gives #lots

I was the center square on Hollywood Squares for about fifteen weeks. ↗

— Jerry Mathers

#center #fifteen #hollywood #i #square

Let's not get too precious about it: actors are not heart surgeons or brain surgeons. We are just entertaining people. ↗

— Malcolm McDowell

#brain #entertaining #entertaining people #get #heart

I get a bit of a kick out of exporting private enterprise and incentives. ↗

— Fred L. Turner

#enterprise #exporting #get #i #incentives

To so enter into it in nature and art that the enjoyed meanings of life may become a part of living is the attitude of aesthetic appreciation. ↗

— George H. Mead

#appreciation #art #attitude #become #enjoyed

No administration could stop the tidal wave of immigration that swept over the land; no political party could restrain or control the enterprise of our people, and no reasonable man could desire to check the march of civilization. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

#administration #check #civilization #control #could

America is a nation with no truly national city, no Paris, no Rome, no London, no city which is at once the social center, the political capital, and the financial hub. ↗

— C. Wright Mills

#capital #center #city #financial #hub