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writing dust skeletons
What is important is the story. Because when we are all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're dancing with our own skeletons - our words might be all that's left of us. Alexandra Fuller
writing giving people
We need to give out portrayal of ourselves. Every non-Indian writer writes about 1860 to 1890 pretty much, and there is no non-Indian writer that can write movies about contemporary Indians. Only Indians can. Indians are usually romanticized. Non-Indians are totally irrepsonsible with the appropriation of Indians, because any time tou have an Indian in a movie, it's political. They're not used as people, they're used as points. Chris Eyre
writing dust damnation
There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write 'damnation' with your fingers. Charles Spurgeon
writing tears pockets
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. Charles Peguy
writing eight ideas
Oh, I had an idea for a pilot of my own at the time, and then Carl sent me about eight scripts and simply I threw my idea out the window because the writing was just so good. Dick Van Dyke
writing sometimes enough
Sometimes you can write a great scene, but when you're actually in a situation and it doesn't work, you have to be flexible enough to make it work for you. Diane Kruger
writing analysis fiction
There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work. Dennis Potter
writing speech metaphor
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not? Dennis Potter
writing use young
You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young. Dennis Potter
cliches face learning refuge refusing
Learning to face reality, refusing refuge in cliches and lies, fighting to find a way out - that's what 'Rehab' is about. Antonia Bird
cliche
I'm one of the cliches that has grown up. Charles Olson
cliches delivering easy former gas good threw
Former Gov. Knowles threw out a lot of easy cliches, and is very good at delivering them, but cliches aren't going to get Alaskans a gas pipeline. Becky Hultberg
cliche hate improve quality
I hate to use the old cliche about how it will improve the quality of life. But it's true. Bob Consalvo
cliches hard myths surrounded worked
This story is surrounded by myths and cliches and I worked hard to get through and find out what was true. David Margolick
cliched cool life seemed
The cliched rock life never seemed that cool to me. Win Butler
cliches eager embrace understood
I've never understood why artists, who so often condescend to the cliches of their own culture, are so eager to embrace the cliches of cultures they know nothing about. Brad Holland
cliche difference experience figures human mysterious precisely prove reader received stylistic truly
Write as precisely and as lucidly and as richly as you can about what you find truly mysterious and irreducible about human experience, and not obscurely about what will prove to be received opinion or cliche once the reader figures out your stylistic conceit. There's all the difference in the world between mystery and mystification. Paul Harding
cliche irritating decided
The most irritating thing about cliches, I decided, was how frequently they were true. Diana Gabaldon
jace ends feels
It'll be all right." Julia's gentleness makes it worse. "In the end, Jace." "It doesn't feel very all right." "That's because it's not the end. David Mitchell
jace said
This is bad," said Jace. "You said that before." "It seemed worth repeating. Cassandra Clare
jace said city-of-ashes
How'd you get Magnus to let Jace leave?" "Traded him for Alec," Clary said. Cassandra Clare
jace persons happenings
Jace, Clary thought, was the sort of person who liked it when things were happening, even things that were bad Cassandra Clare
jace fats enormous
Enormous? Did you just call me FAT? I am not fat. - Jace Cassandra Clare
jace should feels
Why should I tell you everything about how I feel when you never tell me anything? Cassandra Clare
jace hotter
Hotter than me? --Jace Cassandra Clare
jace said temper
Clary," Jace said again. "You know: short, redheaded, bad temper. Cassandra Clare
jace feels
Do you ever feel like screaming?' Clary asked him [Jace]. 'Some of the time. Cassandra Clare