“After you've written a story, the thing to do is sell it. Sounds simple, and it is, if one will follow certain basic principles of salesmanship.” IfsStoriesCertainSoundSimplePrinciplesWrittenSellsThings To DoBasic PrinciplesSalesmanship Author:Erle Stanley Gardner
“I had two projects that fell apart during preproduction. The first one was this movie that Judd Apatow and I had written about two guys following the Rolling Stones. It was going to be half concert film, half pseudo-documentary. It was Mick Jagger's idea.The other one was Simple Plan, based on a novel by Scott Smith. It's a great book - really stark, not a comedy - about a guy who finds $4 million in a plane crash and decides to keep it.” FirstsTwoBookIdeasFilmGuySimpleHalfMillionsNovelComedyPlansWrittenProjectsStonesFollowingPlanesConcertsCrashRollingDocumentariesStarksRolling StonesGreat BookPseudoTwo GuysJaggerPlane CrashesSimple Plan Author:Ben Stiller
“The music that really moves me is music that's written by people where there isn't a lot of money and they're really singing with just their voice and a guitar about their feelings and about their life. Their poetry is relatively simple, in the sense that it's about their soul in jeopardy.” PeopleSoulFeelingsMovingVoiceSimpleWrittenSingingGuitarPoetry IsLots Of MoneyJeopardy Author:Anton Yelchin
“What makes it [economics] most fascinating is that its fundamental principles are so simple that they can be written on one page, that anyone can understand them, and yet very few do.” SimplePrinciplesWrittenPagesEconomicsFundamentalsFascinatingFundamental Principles Author:Milton Friedman
“The techniques are all means of dealing with one simple idea: She wrote it. (That is, the "wrong" person--in this case, female--has created the "right" value--i.e., art.) Denial of Agency: She didn't write it. Pollution of Agency: She shouldn't have written it. Double Standard of Content: Yes, but look what she wrote about. False Categorizing: She is not really she [an artist] and it is not really it [serious, of the right genre, aesthetically sound, important, etc.] so how could "she" have written "it"? Or simply: Neither "she" nor "it" exists (simple exclusion).” WritingLooksMeanPersonsArtImportantIdeasArtistValuesSoundSimpleCasesWrittenSeriousStandardsFemaleCriticismTechniqueDenialGenreAgencyEtcSexismPollutionExclusionDouble StandardLiterary CriticismWrong PersonSimple IdeasCategorizing Book:How to Suppress Women's Writing Source: How to Suppress Women's Writing
“The prostitute is the scapegoat for everyone's sins, and few people care whether she is justly treated or not. Good people have spent thousands of pounds in efforts to reform her, poets have written about her, essayists and orators have made her the subject of some of their most striking rhetoric; perhaps no class of people has been so much abused, and alternatively sentimentalized over as prostitutes have been but one thing they have never yet had, and that is simple legal justice.” PeopleHas BeensMadeCareJusticeSinSimpleEffortClassWrittenOne ThingSubjectsPoetTreatedReformPoundsGood PeopleRhetoricEssayistsScapegoatOrators Author:Alison Roberta Noble Neilans
“Most of what has been written about me is one big blur, but I do remember being described in one simple word that I agree with. It was in a piece that tore me apart for my personal behavior, but the writer said that when the music began and I started to sing, I was "honest."” Has BeensSaidBigsRememberSimplePiecesWrittenHonestBehaviorMusic IsAgreeBlurSimple WordsPersonal Behavior Author:Frank Sinatra
“If you're going to invest a valuable asset (like time), go ahead and make it productive. Use a postit or two, or some index cards or a highlighter. Not to write down stuff so you can forget it later, but to create marching orders. It's simple: if three weeks go by and you haven't taken action on what you've written down, you wasted your time.” IfsWritingTwoUseActionOrderThreeStuffSimpleForgetBusinessTakenWrittenWeekHavensValuableCardsProductiveAssetsForget It Author:Seth Godin
“One of the best investors around, Joel Greenblatt, has written a popular, charming and funny book about investing in great companies at low P/E multiples. To simplify an already simple book, great companies are generally measured as companies that can generate lots of profit without requiring a lot of capital. This means that they have high ROEs.” MeanBookSimpleCompanyWrittenLowsInvestingProfitInvestorsCharmingSimplifyGreat CompanyFunny Book Author:David Einhorn
“Now you're gonna take beatings. It's written in our DNA, you know. You're gonna go down. You get up, it's that simple.” KnowsSimpleWrittenGet UpDna Author:Travis Rice
“Though a simple book can be written on selected topics, the central doctrines of economics are not simple and cannot be made so.” MadeBookSimpleWrittenEconomicsDoctrineTopicsSelected Book:The Early Economic Writings of Alfred Marshall, 1867–1890 Source: The Early Economic Writings of Alfred Marshall, 1867–1890