I am not - thank heavens - one of those 'driven' writers who spend a fortnight buckled with empty fright over an untouched page only to wake at two in the morning feverish with paragraphs.
The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.
I'm reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.
Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved and found as fossils they can never expect to find more than a fraction.
My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on. To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation, but I'm working on the foundation.
The press is the only institution that is truly accountable. The founding fathers put the First Amendment first for a reason.
My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.
Only one in four jokes ever works, and I still can't predict what people will laugh at.
Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.
There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris, and everybody said, 'Ooh, hey, I can do that.' There's only a few people that have flown in early 1908. In four years, 39 countries had hundreds of airplanes, thousands of pilots.
The only thing that differentiates you and me from a couple of fourteen year old pyromaniacs is balistic glass!
Weβre not the only mammals who are partial to blackberries, far from it. Foxes and badgers will also gobble them up, helping to distribute the seeds, which survive the transit through the gut.
Online advertising is increasingly only a fraction of what is being lost from print advertising, and it is under constant pressure.
Human identity is the most fragile thing that we have, and it's often only found in moments of truth.
I have found that the only way to give feedback without triggering white fragility is not to give it at all.
Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.
Jeffersonian democracy, faulty as it is, and only the fragment of it that we have, is a thing of such preciousness, a thing of such value.
I am only one-eighth the writer I might have been had I contained all the fragmented languages of Trinidad.
The press is the only profession protected in the Constitution because of how important the framers viewed the press. But in authoritarian regimes, they control the press.
It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
