“Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!”
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer
Lawrence J. Quirk, Child of Fate - Margaret Sullavan, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1986, ISBN 0312514425, p. 77.
“Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!”
Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer
“Learn to pay yourself first, you'll never be broke”
Cornelius Keagon (1996) Liberian humanitarian aid worker
“If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you, and you'll never learn.”
Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451
Source: Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
“It's taken me years of practice to learn how to act natural.”
Craig Clevenger The Contortionist's Handbook
Source: The Contortionist's Handbook
“You can't forget the things you did in the past, or you'll never learn from them.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels
Source: City of Fallen Angels
Fyodor Dostoyevsky book Notes from Underground
Part 1, Chapter 7 (page 20)
Notes from Underground (1864)
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
As quoted in Marilyn Monroe : In Her Own Words (1983), edited by Roger Taylor
Context: Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents.