Sara Sheridan The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two. – Sara Sheridan Cloud Quotes Cocktail Quotes Figure Quotes Fired Quotes Inspiration Quotes Lonely Quotes Mysterious Quotes Wandering Quotes Writer Quotes The digital revolution has wrest a little control away from corporate publishers and white, male, middle-aged critics, but the financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession. Writers have it easy. If you write a bestseller or have your book made into a movie, you’ll never have to work again, or so the myth goes.
David Grinspoon As a young planet, Venus was losing hydrogen rapidly to space. The oceans boiled off, and after some period of time, perhaps 600 million years, there was no surface water. – David Grinspoon
PatienceThomas Edward Brown As I pass it, I feel as if I saw a dear old mother, sweet in her weakness, trembling at the approach of her dissolution, but not appealing to me against the inevitable, rather endeavouring to reassure me by her patience, and pointing to a hopeful future. – Thomas Edward Brown
Luis Walter Alvarez At the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, we have long had a tradition of close cooperation between physicists and technicians. – Luis Walter Alvarez
Fiona Bruce I’m astonished at the freedom with which a depressingly large number of men feel they can just say what they want and write the most hideously misogynistic stuff about women. – Fiona Bruce
Florence Pugh What we don’t realise when we watch a normal film is how many times someone has run in just before a shot quickly to wipe away that sweaty moustache. You never see a normal spot, a bag under the eye or an unplucked eyebrow, because that’s not how Hollywood works. – Florence Pugh
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