David Simon What writer wants to make compromises with story? Story is the only reason you’re in it. – David Simon Compromises Quotes Reason Quotes Story Quotes Writer Quotes The trick to making a story matter is that every now and then, somebody you care about has to go. If it’s somebody that you don’t care about, then it doesn’t really have – the stakes aren’t there. But if you do that every now and then, then the story matters to people. And there are actual stakes involved, emotional stakes. I would be lying if I said the journalism doesn’t reflect my own choices as a reporter and a writer: what to say, what to emphasize, how to say it, what is true or untrue.
Ravi Shastri As a child I played cricket as a hobby. Once you started playing for your school, you became more ambitious. You reckoned you could play for the state. Then you started to think about the country. But it happened so quickly for me, I started playing for the school at 13, for Bombay at 17, and at 18 I was in the Indian side. – Ravi Shastri
Madam C J Walker As I bent over the washboard and looked at my arms buried in soapsuds, I said to myself, ‘What are you going to do when you grow old and your back gets stiff?’ This set me to thinking, but with all my thinking I couldn’t see how a poor washerwoman was going to better my condition. – Madam C J Walker
Little Simz I did a show in Germany, and some kid – he was disabled – he was actually in a wheelchair, and he came out to my show, and he couldn’t get across to me what he was trying to say, and you could see that he was frustrated because he couldn’t fully express himself, and I just felt like, ‘Wow, he’s just really passionate about me.’ – Little Simz
J G Ballard People think that by living on some mountainside in a tent and being frozen to death by freezing rain, they’re somehow discovering reality, but of course that’s just another fiction dreamed up by a TV producer. – J G Ballard
Guy Martin If you were to be put off by every little problem life throws at you, you’d get nowt done. – Guy Martin
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