"I had mostly been writing humor books, and my instinct is generally to go for the joke."

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Source : Interview with Roger Sutton, www.hbook.com. February 3, 2015.

Jory John

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Instinct Quotes

“I'm very excited about dance and love it with a deep passion. I also struggle, tire and become discouraged. But what has always revived me...has been the rebirth of energy each time the creative process is awakened and artistic activity begins to unfold even in some infinitesimal measure.”
“However well equipped our language, it can never be forearmed against all possible cases that may arise and call for description: fact is richer than diction.”

Source : "Philosophical Papers" by J. L. Austin, James Opie Urmson, Geoffrey James Warnock, 3rd ed., New York: Oxford, (p. 195), 1979.
“Start with good people, lay out the rules, communicate with your employees, motivate them and reward them. If you do all those things effectively, you can't miss.”
“There are two kinds of secrets: those we keep from others and those we hide from ourselves.”
“Theodore Roosevelt regarded leadership as his one gift, the area in which he might be considered to possess genius. He presented his views on leadership throughout his voluminous writings. He intended for future writers to study them with an eye toward action, as he himself had done of historic figures.”
“I'm not trying to cut myself off from the rest of the culture by not licensing.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Whether you're gay or straight, with a physical disability, your skin's a different color, it's absurd in this age to not be aware and be concerned of the inequity in rights.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“My prayer for the new year is that I may have the courage and the stamina to let Life happen to me, to accept its joys and successes, and to take in stride the learning that stretches us and the growing pains. Perhaps, to put it simply, my wish for the New Year is: may we love more, live more, laugh more. And so may you!”

Source : Jean Hersey (1964). “A Sense of Seasons”

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