The love scenes that worked, regardless of the director, were the ones where the actors weren't fearful. When somebody was fearful, you could see it right away. It takes you out of the story, and that's to be avoided at all costs.

Dance to the beat and when no music dance to the beat of the heart.

Roger W Hancock PoetPatriot.com

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

George Bernard Shaw

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

William Butler Yeats

Do not trust your memory; it is a net full of holes; the most beautiful prizes slip through it.

Georges Duhamel, The Heart's Dom

Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.

Johann von Goethe

Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be...

John Maynard Keynes

A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.

Daniel J. Boorstin

From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.

W. Somerset Maugham

Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place -- service -- social service -- the ants creed, the bees creed.

John Galsworthy

As with all other aspects of the narrative art, you will improve with practice, but practice will never make you perfect. Why should it? What fun would that be?

Stephen King

Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense.

Thomas A. Bennett

Ideas are a capital that bears interest only in the hands of talent.

Antoine Rivarol