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stories hell cynicism
I read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them. Carl Barks
stories london rooms
But he always licked to get visitors alone in the billiard room and tell them stories about a mysterious lady, a foreign royalty, with whom he had driven about London. 'A devilish temper she had,' he would say. 'But she was a dem fine woman, sir, a dem fine woman. C. S. Lewis
stories wonderful marley
Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate. Charles Dickens
stories writers
One of my favorite writers is Hans Christian Anderson. His stories speak to the times. Sandra Cisneros
stories facts hollywood
Hollywood has more than its share of harsh and crewel stories. In fact, it's probably more the norm than the exception. Brent Spiner
stories levels hollywood
Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story. Bret Easton Ellis
stories might like-family
Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You might drift apart or you might turn your back on them, but you can't say you haven't got them. Same goes for stories. Diane Setterfield
stories birth continuation
A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the continuation of someone else's story.
stories cases disguise
A story so cherished it has to be dressed in casualness to disguise its significance in case the listener turned out to be unsympathetic.
plot lucky
I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me Caroline B. Cooney
plot shapes divinity
Rashly, And praised be rashness for it--let us know, Our indiscretion sometime serves us well When our deep plots do pall, and that should learn us There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will William Shakespeare
plot storytelling shows
Anything that happens on any show is a plot contrivance because that's just storytelling. Bryan Fuller
plot hiding subtle
The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer. Billy Wilder
plot dames christie
I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie). Connie Willis
plot care want
I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way. Barry Hannah
plot cliche generic
The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find. Ben Stiller
plot communist buried
Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot. Edgar Bergen
plot three scene
A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization. Ayn Rand
language guides insight
Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.
language film boring
Well, visual language is another boring discussion about the nature of film. Alan Rudolph
language programming programming-languages
The greatest single programming language ever designed Alan Kay
language building programming
Lisp isn't a language, it's a building material.
language resilient stills
Still, language is resilient, and poetry when it is pressured simply goes underground. Diane Wakoski
language english-language
There is the English language and then there's the Trump language. David Brooks
language disturbing
The language you are about to hear... is disturbing. Dave Chappelle
language prison foreign-language
Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison! David Mitchell
language internet mediums
The internet is an amazing medium for languages, David Crystal