Sometimes you learn more from films that aren't terribly successful and, indeed, sometimes you learn more from real disasters than you do from the ones that succeed.
The pathos of life is worse than the tragedy.
It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for having written at all.
The truth is I've got the land on my back, an' it's drivin' me. Land is a hard driver.
And where was happiness if it sprung not from the soil? Where contentment if it dwelt not near to Nature?
Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.
to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.
I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work.
I never knew what life was until it ran out in a red gush over any lips, my hands!
Technology is not destiny. We shape our destiny
Friendship is born at that moment when a single particular person claims to a different: 'What! You far too? I assumed I was the only real one particular.