Skirting Direct Quotes & Sayings

Do as you like
if you know what it is. — Mason Cooley

I think training your instinct comes from writing and reading. There's no big secret. And reading slush helps, as well; I'd recommend everyone edit a literary magazine at some point. It's time-consuming, but there's a lot to learn from other writers who are also learning. The patterns (twelve stories about whales in this batch?) are also interesting. — Mary J. Miller

Wow, that was really prophetic. The spa fumes must be going to my head. — Kirsty Dallas

Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman. — Victor Hugo

I didn't come in here to argue with a woman with big hair — Jayne Ann Krentz

Love isn't blind ... It just involves a lot of looking the other way — Ben Mitchell

It's so much easier to write for an actor than for an imaginary character and then try to fit that character to an actor. It doesn't work very often in my experience. — Michael Schur

Yeah, I do. HipHop was, though I would not say all, cause I try to keep myself open to other things, but nearly all I listend to for the last 14 years of my life. — DJ Shadow

Throughout my trading career, I have continually witnessed examples of other people that I have known being ruined by a failure to respect risk. If you don't take a hard look at risk, it will take you. — Larry Hite