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writing hair fire
Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up... Charles Dickens
writing numbers gold
Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither. Charles Caleb Colton
writing language nonsense
It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
writing men profound
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
writing faces privacy
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
writing men three
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
writing should-have fire
We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.
writing self hints
The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author's that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
writing two style
When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such persons do not understand themselves; and secondly, that they are not worthy of being understood by others.
revision manipulation use
I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda and the manipulation of the truth and the revision of history. Hillary Clinton
revision sure surprised
I'm not sure we will see a big revision in February; I won't be surprised if we do not. Sung Sohn
revision life-is
The writer’s life is a life of revisions. Jonathan Franzen
revision written our-lives
I love revisions...We can't go back and revise our lives, but being allowed to go back and revise what we have written comes closest. Katherine Paterson
revision rewards
Revision is its own reward. Marianne Moore
revision creation process
Revision is not going back and fussing around, but going forward into the process of creation May Sarton
revision firsts life-is
My life is constant revision but it's not revision, a lot of it is for the first time. Robin Ince
revision assuming economy
This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a reduction. Laurent Fabius
revision realms unspeakable
Through revision, I enter the realm of the unspeakable and find the words that have eluded me. Terry Tempest Williams
pleasure duty
One reads for pleasure...it is not a public duty. Alan Bennett
pleasure given recollection
To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life. Agnes Repplier
pleasure
There is a pleasure in affecting affectation. Charles Lamb
pleasure pleasant
To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.
pleasure
I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge. Charles Baudelaire
pleasure pleasant pleasant-things
Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others. Baltasar Gracian
pleasure
Pleasure is everything. Diana Vreeland
pleasure products
Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure David Brooks
pleasure source slippery
...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source. Billy Collins