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american-novelist musicality point
The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content. Rick Moody
american-novelist burden freedom lose realize until
Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. Margaret Mitchell
american-novelist time tour
Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book. Richard Russo
american-novelist create decorative exotic material
With my gaudy, exotic material I wanted to create large, dreamy constructions that would not be decorative but powerfully expressive. Edmund White
american-novelist exhibit form masses men public substitute usual vice
It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny. James F. Cooper
american-novelist imaginary ingenuity leaving office safety skills test
Through Kinsey, I get to test my ingenuity and my skills with imaginary firearms... all without leaving the safety of my office chair. Sue Grafton
american-novelist eminent figures opposite questions raised reality rhetoric
The reality has been the opposite of the rhetoric especially when questions have been raised about eminent figures in the establishment. Serge Lang
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Why do writers write? Because it isn't there. Thomas Berger
american-novelist art asking questions science source
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
book writing long
My theory about writing is that one should write books you'd like to read, but no one else has written yet. So, as long as I stick with that, I'm entertaining myself, and then hopefully my readers as well. I hope to god I realize that I'm repeating myself, if I ever do. But if I don't, I'm sure my readers will let me know. Charles de Lint
book writing want
I don't actually talk about my books much, because I find if I talk about them I don't want to write them anymore. I write to find out what happens. You know how you read a book? That's what I'm doing except I'm just doing it a lot slower because it takes a lot longer to do.
book writing seven
I'm really bad at describing my books. Journalists like to have things like "It's The Terminator Meets the Seven Dwarfs." And I can't do that with my books. If I could, I probably wouldn't write them.
book writing differences
To me there's no difference between writing YA and adult except that in YA I make the book a little shorter and the protagonists are teens. The difference is in the readers.
book night cities
I like living in the city where I have all my books and music and can go out to buy that night's dinner or easily see a band. But I also like the wild places, especially hiking in the desert and the Eastern woodlands. Do I have to choose?
book biblical world
The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world. Charles Dickens
book beer words-of-wisdom
No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.
book night men
Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.
book reading writing
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
books favorite george science
When I was a kid, one of my favorite books was George Gamow's 'One Two Three ... Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science.' Mark Frauenfelder
books crowds front kids larger lives performance performing poetry program reading view
The performance is part of a larger picture. Getting up and performing poetry in front of big crowds is another way for these kids to view their lives from a different perspective, and we want the kids in our program 20 years from now to be reading the books some of these kids have written.
books might
There are books up there I haven't read for many years but I wouldn't put them out. I never know when I might want to read them again. Norman MacCaig
books books-and-reading dozen geeky order sorts understand web
There are books on HTML, JavaScript, Java, ActiveX, and all sorts of other geeky subjects. But not only don't you need to understand these things in order to set up a Web site; you can read a dozen such books, and you still won't know everything you need to do.
books books-and-reading favor program
We're in favor of any program that can give our books more exposure.
books flea found hill loved market natural oak open period selling short since sold time wife
We started off in the Oak Hill Flea Market, about 1988, selling just about everything, but after a short period of time we found that books sold best. After a while we just got too big for the flea market and since my wife and I always loved books and reading, the natural progression was for us to open a bookstore.
books-and-reading burn burns soon
Where one burns books, one will soon burn people. Heinrich Heine
books fall love trying
I am happy to keep working on books because I'm always reading, and I'm always trying to fall in love. Nina Jacobson
books fairy stories telling
When my sister and I were very young, my father used to tell us fairy stories that he'd made up. My mother was always telling him that he should write them down, but he would say, 'Well, they've all been done before. There are so many blooming books in the world - why should I write another one?' Nicolas Roeg
hope struggle essence
Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.
hope balance heirs
Hope is a prodigal young heir, and Experience is his banker; but his drafts are seldom honoured, since there is often a heavy balance against him, because he draws largely on a small capital, is not yet in possession, and if he were, would die. Charles Caleb Colton
hope expectations heirs
Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
hope heart lovely
There are hopes, the bloom of whose beauty would be spoiled by the trammels of description; too lovely, too delicate, too sacred for words, they should only be known through the sympathy of hearts.
hopes-and-fears seasons
Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons Chogyam Trungpa
hopefully takes work
We know what it takes to win. Hopefully we will do the work it takes to get back.
hope mental team weeks work
We know we will have the same mental breakdowns that every team will have, we just have to hope they don't come at inopportune times. At least then we will be able to work on them during the weeks to come.
hopefully improve means performance tough
We know we have to improve significantly on the Kettering performance. But hopefully that was a one off. It'll be tough up there but by no means impossible.
hopefully last strong struggled weekend
We struggled last weekend at Jacksonville. Hopefully this will jump-start us to have a strong end of the season. Chris Johnson
pay attention share
I've bought QPP shares but unfortunately both times I bought it they immediately dropped by over 10p. Do you pay much attention to the dealing notes? Alan Green
pay attention objects
Faith is occupied with the Object upon which it rests and pays no attention to itself at all. Aiden Wilson Tozer
pay ifs
I would pay to do what I do if I had to. David McCullough
pay debt turns
As it turns out, we don't "all" have to pay our debts. Only some of us do. David Graeber
payroll-tax taxes payroll
I've never supported a wage tax and I've never supported a payroll tax. David Dewhurst
payroll-tax taxes payroll
Ive never supported a payroll tax.
pay attention use
Pay close attention to the particular thoughts you use to deprive yourself of happiness. Byron Katie
pay attention pay-attention
I said, I'm going to stand up and somebody is going to pay attention to me. Buddy Guy
pay willing
When you want something, you have to be willing to pay your dues. Les Brown
saved
The love received is the love that is saved. Eddie Vedder
saved season
Pau has been doing it for us all season and he did it again. He saved us. Eddie Jones
saved year
Marc-Andre has saved us a lot this year and he did it again. Sidney Crosby
saved
I was the one who saved the town.
saved score struggling
He saved us with that effort, ... especially the way we've been struggling to score runs. Bruce Bochy
saved year
He saved the year for us with that tackle. Hines Ward
saved woke
He saved our lives. He woke up because he couldn't breathe.
saved
Anything we love can be saved. Alice Walker
saved
You are not saved by your works. You work because youre saved. Adrian Rogers
somebody wished
You get everything you could have ever wished for if you're willing to give that eternal bliss away to somebody else, to give it back. Michael Franti
somebody
We want somebody who's going to do a lot for the county. We're not going to rush.
somebody
We want somebody who is really going to do it.
somebody waiting
We're just waiting for somebody to fall. It's going to happen.
somebody stay wants
Let's put somebody in there that wants to stay and will be successful.
somebody step
Somebody just has to step up and take over. With our backs, somebody will do it. Rich Rodriguez
somebody
Somebody is supplying these lawyers. They've got an agenda.
somebody step
Somebody is going to have to step in and take the load.
somebody
Somebody is going to have to play that hasn't been out there.