#scratch

Life lasts but a few scratches of the claw in the sand. ↗

— Wislawa Szymborska

#lasts #life #sand #scratches

Writers always say, 'I always knew I wanted to be a writer; when I was a three-month-old foetus a pen formed in my hand and I began to scratch my first story on the inside of my mother's womb.' I started later, in my early twenties. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#began #early #first #formed #hand

When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must scratch any way you can. ↗

— Samuel Lover

#comes #cure #i #itch #literature

One learns to itch where one can scratch. ↗

— Scott Reed

#learns #scratch #where

The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

#becomes #enough #having #itch #like

You don't hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news. ↗

— Thomas J. Watson

#ask #bad #bad news #company #easy

People have often asked if I'm gay because I don't go out of my way to spit and scratch and give people attitude. ↗

— Jason Bateman

#attitude #because #gay #give #go

I'm just starting to scratch the surface of what really makes me happy and it's taken me a while to admit that acting like a little child and being a jerk and a punk is fun. ↗

— Leonardo DiCaprio

#admit #being #child #fun #happy

I always start from scratch with a character - they're never based on anyone else. You get ideas of what people look like, and I'm a great people watcher. You can draw inspiration from people. ↗

— Amanda Burton

#anyone #based #character #draw #else

Scratch the surface of what's socially normal. I suppose in some way all of us have something we display to the public and things we feel too ashamed of or uncomfortable with to reveal to other people. ↗

— Michael Fassbender

#display #feel #i #normal #other