"People who say they read more write better."

-- Stephen D. Krashen

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes

“Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed.”
“Whatever the reason, first place was always Solo, always, always, always, and second place was usually Chewbacca, because if you weren't the one saving the galaxy, you might as well be eight feet tall and covered with hair.”

Source : Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.30, Vintage
“I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction.”
“If what you own cannot be protected, you own nothing.”

Source : Jack Valenti's testimony as President of the MPAA to the U.S. House of Representatives, cryptome.org. April 12, 1982.
“When the story is good enough, people can watch something three times the length of an opera.”
“Guy on the plane I'm on has a text alert that sounds like a gunshot... And he isn't putting it on vibrate.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 9, 2014
“I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.”
“First of all we had very few users. We might have had a hundred accesses a day. So there was really no demand from the users to add their own links. Things changed over time though as our access rates doubled every month. Through word of mouth on the Net more and more people began using it.”

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