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fiction people science scientists tells time virtually visible
My feeling is that science is virtually an unexplored ground. It's very visible - more so all the time - but there's no fiction that tells us how scientists think, and they really don't think the way that other people do. Gregory Benford
fictional remains
More than 100 years after he first appeared, Holmes remains the template for the fictional detective. Mark Billingham
fiction easy tales
How easy it is to tell tales! Denis Diderot
fiction hub
That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things. Elizabeth Bowen
fiction stories knows
[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet. Elizabeth Bowen
fiction autobiography bounds
... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography. Elizabeth Bowen
fiction hard tendency weakness
I have a tendency to embellish: I think it's a weakness of fiction writers. Once you know how to make a story better, it's hard not to do it all the time. Sarah Dessen
fiction humor low pitch relief short throws trying
Short fiction is like low relief. And if your story has no humor in it, then you're trying to look at something in the pitch dark. With the light of humor, it throws what you're writing into relief so that you can actually see it. Elizabeth McCracken
fiction fondness hard historical mind science wondrous
I have a fondness for historical fiction, something wondrous like 'Wolf Hall,' but I'll read most anything as long as the story grabs my mind or my heart, and preferably both. You would be hard pressed, however, to find science fiction on my shelves. Sue Monk Kidd
students impossible programming
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. Edsger Dijkstra
students vision
I have a vision for the way students can be represented. John Boyles
students dedicated teach
When I teach, I preach. I thump the Bible. I exhort my students morally. I talk to them about the dedicated life. Annie Dillard
students sometimes poet
There's been no poet, no great poet in the history of poetry who hasn't also been a great reader of poetry. This is sometimes distressing to my students when I tell them this. Edward Hirsch
students
We're going to take a look at all the qualifications that all of the students bring. Paul Kohn
students hard
It's very hard to remain a student in life. Carol Kane
students three year
Three years ago, I had 18 students, ... and this year I have 44. Steve Gray
students
I've always loved being a student. Elizabeth Olsen
students tests
We want students to take these tests very seriously, Peter Flynn