#short

The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time. I don't do too many notes. I keep it mostly in my head. I usually start writing a new book around January, and it's due October 1. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#around #book #due #head #i

Nobody ever won a pennant without a star shortstop. ↗

— Leo Durocher

#nobody #pennant #shortstop #star #without

What they say about TV shows is true. You're really a family. You laugh, you fight, you get close, you know? Movies are shorter. They're over quicker. You don't form the same bonds. ↗

— James Gandolfini

#bonds #close #family #fight #form

You have to look at the discrepancy between what you hoped and imagined and the reality of yourself and all your shortcomings. ↗

— Richard Grant

#discrepancy #hoped #imagined #look #reality

You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimony. ↗

— John Barrymore

#how #month #never #pay #realize

Humans are aware of very little, it seems to me, the artificial brainy side of life, the worries and bills and the mechanisms of jobs, the doltish psychologies we've placed over our lives like a stencil. A dog keeps his life simple and unadorned. ↗

— Brad Watson

#mississippi #short-story #men

Dreams are, by definition, cursed with short life spans. ↗

— Candice Bergen

#definition #dreams #life #short #short life

When I had people scratchin' my shorts a bit, it played better. We lost a bit of that in all the personnel changes and it's an element we need to get back. ↗

— Tom Bergeron

#better #bit #changes #element #get

I live in a house over there on the Island, and in that house there is a man waiting for me. When he drove up at the door I drove out of the dock because he says I’m his ideal. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#american-dream #fitzgerald #jazz-age-stories #short-stories #women

What is a good performance? It lies in the hands and head of a performer... the shortest way between two people is not a straight line. ↗

— Earle Brown

#good #hands #head #lies #line