“I think you will agree that I am alive in every part of this book; turn back twenty, thirty, one hundred pages - I am back there. That is why I hate the story; characters are not snakes that they must shed their skins on every page - there can only be one action: what a man is. When you have understood this, you will be through with novels.” ThinkingMenWritingBookCharacterStoriesActionHateTurnsNovelAlivePagesUnderstoodHundredSkinsI HateTwentiesAgreeThirtyShedSnakesI Am Alive Author:Kenneth Patchen
“A word of advice: If you get the choice between the upper and lower bunks in a cell, choose the lower. Prisons do not turn off their lights at night, and I spent a sleepless night, without a mattress, with a five-hundred-watt bulb shining directly into my eyes.” IfsLightEyeNightTurnsChoicesFiveAdviceHundredPrisonShiningCellsTurn OffBulbsMattressesSleepless NightsBunkWords Of Advice Author:William Powell
“If it could save a person's life, could you find a way to save ten seconds off the boot time? If there were five million people using the Mac, and it took ten seconds extra to turn it on every day, that added up to three hundred million or so hours per year people would save, which was the equivalent of at least one hundred lifetimes saved per year.” PeopleIfsWayYearsPersonsTurnsThreeHoursMillionsFiveTenHundredLifetimeSavedExtrasSecondsBootsMacs Author:Steve Jobs
“The reason I turn down 99% of a hundred, I mean a thousand, scripts is because romantic comedies are often very romantic but seldom very funny.” MeanReasonTurnsComedyThousandHundredRomanticScriptsRomantic LoveMean GirlsVery Romantic Author:Hugh Grant