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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.
speech remember omniscience
Remember that thought is speech before God. Charles Spurgeon
speech remember carnegie
I used to have this slight speech implement and couldn't remember things before I took the Sam Carnegie course. Bill Peterson
speech literature immortality
Literature is the immortality of speech. August Wilhelm von Schlegel
speech opinion courses
Of course, that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. Dennis Miller
speech surprise trump
It's no surprise to say I oppose the ban [of Donald Trump].If we only allow free speech for those we already agree with, is that free speech at all? Edward Leigh
speech moments evoke
Fateful moments tend to evoke grandeur of speech, especially in French. Barbara Tuchman
speech language pantomime
Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy. Bela Lugosi
speech easy young
Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners. Anthony Trollope
speech literature variables
The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech. Carl Clinton Van Doren
alphabet days good greek news
I don't think we're going to get into the Greek alphabet this year. The good news is it's still 56 days before it starts. John Williams
alphabet good inception
From the inception of the alphabet organizations, they have been very, very selfish. It's never been about what's good for boxing. It's always been about what's good for them, specifically what's good for them financially. Steve Farhood
alphabet english-mathematician eventually found full hour later rather screen shifting suddenly toy understood until
Eventually I found it had been working all along-but didn't show anything on screen until it had the first full page of text. I inserted 30 new lines, and suddenly my toy said 'hEllO woRlD'. An hour later I understood alphabet shifting rather better! Graham Nelson
alphabet asking building exploring jump knowledge learning life looking mars questions start task tough
Looking for life on Mars is such a big task that we really had to start by building a knowledge base. We started exploring Mars with Viking by asking some tough questions, which led to more complicated questions and more exploration. We have to think of it like school. We start in kindergarten learning the alphabet and build from there. In kindergarten, we don't jump right into calculus.
alphabet conviction less lower matters poetry saves stakes tiny
I think that I have less conviction than ever that poetry matters - that poetry changes or saves anything or anyone. But, in fact, that's tremendously freeing. If it doesn't matter much, the stakes are lower and you can't really fail. It's insurrection. It's a tiny alphabet revolution. A secret. A psalm. Daphne Gottlieb
alphabet chant gaelic memory months remember room script seeing start
I'd just go into a room in my memory and just look around and start seeing things that I'd forgotten, like the alphabet on the blackboard in Irish, which we had to chant every day for months and months and months. I remember the Gaelic script and things like that. And this awful, putrid lavatory that we used outside." () Frank McCourt
alphabet bit east grew survive
I grew up in the East Village, in Alphabet City, when it was a very dangerous neighborhood. To survive there, I had to learn to be a little bit invisible. Josh Pais
alphabet beyond found imagination letter poking sort spell starts surprised
My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It's the letter I use to spell yuzz-a-ma-tuzz. You'll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond 'Z' and start poking around! Dr. Seuss
alphabet certain eleven placed sort vowel
Out of the simple consonants of the alphabet and our eleven vowels and diphthongs all possible syllables of a certain sort were constructed, a vowel sound being placed between two consonants. Hermann Ebbinghaus