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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.
twists film contemporary
It's become very popular in contemporary films to have the twist ending. Bill Paxton
twists peculiar ifs
If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it. Dean Koontz
twists
Everything is nothing, with a twist. Kurt Vonnegut
twists lines straight-lines
The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life. Giambattista Vico
twists looks fluidity
The trouble with life is its amorphousness, its ridiculous fluidity. Look at it: thinly plotted, largely themeless, sentimental and ineluctably trite. The dialogue is poor, or at least violently uneven. The twists are either predictable or sensationalist. And it’s always the same beginning, and the same ending. Martin Amis
twists knots i-can
I've tried and I can't. The thought of it twists me in a knot. Rachel Gibson
twists males menopause
Transsexualism is, basically, just another, more drastic twist on the male menopause Julie Burchill
twists made turns
I'm always revving the engine. In this industry, there are so many twists and turns. You never have it made. Juliette Lewis
twists obsessed
I was obsessed with Chubby Checker and old dances, like the twist. Laurieann Gibson
surprising
I think the most surprising thing about giving is it takes a while to find out what you're really interested in and what you really want to do. Marc Benioff
surprising work
As an actor, the thing I want to do to an audience is always be ahead of them and always be surprising in the work without deviating from the writer's intention. Steve Bisley
surprising
We want things to be beautiful, surprising to see, but they also have to be functional. One without the other doesn't make any sense.
surprising
Everything is surprising, rightly seen. A. S. Byatt
surprising
I can get really obsessive. I like writing many drafts, and I try not to because it is very time-consuming, especially when you're working on a novel. But I do like to take a story and reorder it, put things in different places. This allows me to see things in a new and sometimes surprising way.
surprising truth
Here is the surprising truth: It's often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better.
surprising
I was shocked. I won't say it was crushing, but it was surprising and disappointing.
surprising
If you want a machine to be able to interact with people, it better not do things that are surprising to people. Rodney Brooks
surprising
The thing that's been really surprising about the evolution of Facebook is - I think then, and I think now - that if we didn't do this, someone else would have done it. Mark Zuckerberg