#nin

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#doing #none #outlining #people #planning

Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#actual #brought #curious #experience #facts

There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints. ↗

— Rita Dove

#complaining #complaints #instead #life #something

Reagan didn't socialize with the press. He spent his evenings with Nancy, watching TV with dinner trays. But he knew that to transcend, you can't condescend. ↗

— Maureen Dowd

#evenings #his #knew #nancy #press

Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains. ↗

— Edward Dowden

#tragedies #villains #without

There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory. ↗

— Francis Drake

#beginning #continuing #end #finished #glory

I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure. ↗

— Jim Doyle

#child #conscience #cure #disease #family

I'm really happy in Liverpool and the club feels such a family. I feel great, I have a nice house and my family have been here from the beginning so they could help me. ↗

— Royston Drenthe

#beginning #club #could #family #feel

I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and I decided that I would never accept a job just because I needed the money. ↗

— Fran Drescher

#badly #became #because #decided #did

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation. ↗

— Elizabeth Drew

#conversation #instead #lengthens #merely #mind