Related Quotes
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.
cliche irritating decided
The most irritating thing about cliches, I decided, was how frequently they were true. Diana Gabaldon
cliche
I'm one of the cliches that has grown up. Charles Olson
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
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.
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.
cliched cool life seemed
The cliched rock life never seemed that cool to me. Win Butler
cliches except full obviously suspect writers
Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed.
cliche enjoy friday london perfect weekend
A perfect weekend in London has to start on Friday night, by going to the theatre, the Donmar or the National. It's a cliche for an actor, but I enjoy going as much as possible. Helen McCrory
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.
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 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
jace said temper
Clary," Jace said again. "You know: short, redheaded, bad temper.
jace feels
Do you ever feel like screaming?' Clary asked him [Jace]. 'Some of the time.
jace coordination said
He has many things I haven’t got,” said Jace. “Like nearsightedness, bad posture, and an appalling lack of coordination.” -Jace about Simon, pg. 331-
jace said
This is bad," said Jace. "You said that before." "It seemed worth repeating.
jace said city-of-ashes
How'd you get Magnus to let Jace leave?" "Traded him for Alec," Clary said.
jace persons happenings
Jace, Clary thought, was the sort of person who liked it when things were happening, even things that were bad