#ram

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#creative #creative writing #creative writing programs #deal #give

If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air. ↗

— Doris Lessing

#cat #diagram #embodied #fish #given

I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

#book #charts #diagrams #draw #elaborate

When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years. ↗

— Carl Levin

#beyond #current #decision #go #impacts

I think this orchestra's strengths involve drama and voice. ↗

— James Levine

#i #i think #involve #orchestra #strengths

I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change. ↗

— Philip Levine

#dramatic #dramatic change #hard #i #imagine

My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist. ↗

— Philip Levine

#novelist #temperament

Our role is to maintain and monitor a framework in which fair competition can flourish. ↗

— Arthur Levitt

#fair #flourish #framework #maintain #monitor

The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution. ↗

— Steven Levy

#cusp #dramatic #economic #industrial #industrial revolution

I'm very serious about becoming a dramatic actor. I don't want to play cameo parts walking on as Carl Lewis the athlete. I want to go on stage or screen and be taken seriously. ↗

— Carl Lewis

#actor #athlete #becoming #cameo #carl