“Do you solemnly swear never to conceal a vital clue from the reader? Do you promise to observe seemly moderation in the use of gangs, conspiracies, Super Criminals and Lunatics and utterly and forever to forswear Mysterious Poisons unknown to science? Will you honor the King's English? ... If you fail to keep your promise, may other writers steal your plots and your pages swarm with misprints.” IfsMayUseNovelForeverFailingMysteryReaderKingsHonorPromisePagesCriminalsStealingMysteriousPoisonPlotConspiracySwearModerationClueGangSwarmsMystery Novels Author:Dorothy L. Sayers
“Could anyone fail to be depressed by a book he or she has published? Don't we always outgrow them the moment the last page has been written?” Has BeensBookMomentsLastsFailingWrittenPages Author:Mary Ritter Beard
“Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.” IfsFacesWinningNationsFailingDemandEternalPagesIndependenceSlaverySacredGods WillCrueltyOppositionPensHeritageDeclarationPilgrimDeclaration Of IndependenceMajesticWe Will WinPlymouth Book:The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:
“The business plan should address: "How will I get customers? How will I market the product or service? Who will I target?" The principles of a business plan are pretty much the same. But after page one to two, everything is unpredictable, because costs or competition will change and you don't know how things will be received by the market. You have to be able to continually adapt. Companies that fail to adapt will die. Others are brilliant at adapting.” KnowsShouldTwoAbleDiesCompanyPrinciplesKnow HowPlansFailingProductsCostPagesCompetitionCustomersBrilliantAddressesTargetUnpredictableAdaptingBusiness Plan Author:Cameron Johnson
“To attempt to write seriously is always, I feel, to fail - the disjunction between my beautifully sonorous, accurate and painfully affecting mental content, and the leaden, halting sentences on the page always seems a dreadful falling short.” FeelsWritingSeemsFallFailingPagesSentencesAccurate Author:Will Self
“Digressions, incontestably, are the sunshine, the life, the soul of reading! Take them out and one cold eternal winter would reign in every page. Restore them to the writer - he steps forth like a bridegroom, bids them all-hail, brings in variety and forbids the appetite to fail.” SoulReadingStepsFailingColdEternalPagesWinterVarietySunshineAppetiteReignHailBridegroom Author:Laurence Sterne
“When they [visitors to his studio:] learn about the six-week daily-strip deadline and the 12-week Sunday-page deadline, a visitor almost never fails to remark: "Gee, you could work real hard, couldn't you, and get several months ahead and then take the time off?" Being, as I said, a slow learner, it took me until last year to realize what an odd statement that really is. You don't work all of your life to do something so you don't have to do it.” YearsSaidRealHardLastsRealizingFailingWeekMonthsSixPagesStudiosStatementsOddSundayLast YearRemarksDeadlineVisitorsLearnersTime Off Author:Charles M. Schulz