#lists

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective. ↗

— Dave Barry

#extremely #how #journalists #know #little

I say we have not even had the decency to maintain the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us - our roads, our bridges, our wastewater systems, our sewer systems; by the way, those weren't Bolsheviks, those weren't socialists that built those things for us - much less build the infrastructure we need for the 21st century. ↗

— Michael Bennett

#assets #bolsheviks #bridges #build #built

At least the fundamentalists haven't tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#faith #fundamentalists #haven #least #message

In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#austere #between #chastity #christianity #close

Novelists are always resisting autobiographical readings of their work, because they know how false those can be. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#autobiographical #because #false #how #know

Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather rough translation of the book they'd intended to write. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

#being #being honest #book #finished #here

Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry. ↗

— William Golding

#carpentry #daily #job #level #much

Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#any #arranged #collected #could #delay

I constantly make lists and itineraries and then can't stick to any of them. ↗

— Freema Agyeman

#constantly #i #lists #make #stick

Hype is the awkward and desperate attempt to convince journalists that what you've made is worth the misery of having to review it. ↗

— Federico Fellini

#awkward #convince #desperate #having #hype