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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.
change leadership gnarly
You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless. Charles de Gaulle
change begets
Change begets change.
change integrity roots
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. Charles Caleb Colton
change begets
Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.
change men rocks
Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.
change country littles
If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country. Charles Sturt
change age wells
It is not well to make great changes in old age. Charles Spurgeon
change becoming becoming-new
Everything is perpetually becoming new. Alan Watts
change way world
When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.
copyright extend fund
VCs aren't going to fund something that will extend copyright infringement, Mike Goodman
copyright decisions pages publishers ultimately
Ultimately publishers and copyright holders will get to make those decisions about how much those pages cost, Jeff Bezos
copyright individual pricing ultimately
Ultimately for each individual book, pricing will be up to the copyright holders, ... The copyright holders are the ones who get to make these decisions.
copy countries ideas shooting simple steal training
What the other countries are doing, you just copy it. The system's easy. I steal all my training ideas from the Norwegians, OK? I steal all my shooting ideas from the Germans. It's not like it's that hard. It's very simple to do.
copying focusing grammar huge inhibit school stories testing
It is really important that focusing on things such as spelling, punctuation, grammar and handwriting doesn't inhibit the creative flow. When I was at school there was a huge focus on copying and testing and it put me off words and stories for years. Michael Morpurgo
copying countries great india lifting millions people ways western
It's great to see countries like China and India lifting hundreds of millions of people out of poverty by essentially copying Western ways of doing things. Niall Ferguson
copy europe graduated high pass traveling
When I graduated high school, I was one of many English-majors-to-be traveling through Europe with a copy of 'Let's Go Europe' in one hand, 'Anna Karenina' in the other, a Eurail pass for a bookmark. Maria Semple
copy editor found returning savings six taking time took until work
The way I found time to write 'The Imperfectionists' was that I took work as a copy editor at the 'International Herald Tribune' in Paris, working full-time for approximately six months, then taking my savings from that and writing full-time, then returning after six months, and so on, until the book was done! Tom Rachman
copyright legal napster
Legal or illegal, Napster doesn't feel right, ... It doesn't give the copyright holders their share.
dishes hours took
When I was at the Cordon Bleu things took hours and hours and hours to make. And they were beautiful dishes - and I know how to cook that way - but I was like, 'no one is cooking like this.' Sandra Lee
dishes gonna prepared says sign
I'm always gonna be crazy about dishes in the sink. Crazy! Because it's a sign of disrespect. It says that you think someone else is going to clean up after you: that you're not prepared to do it yourself. Lara Logan
dishes fast might
I don't think of myself as a fast reader. I just read a lot. When someone else might think, 'I might do the dishes,' I don't. But then the dishes multiply. Elizabeth Strout
dishes environment family four home knight maintain normal oldest parents supposed tried washed
My parents and my family really tried to maintain as much of a normal environment as possible. When I went home, it wasn't Keshia Knight Pulliam the actress, the glitz, the glamour. It was Keshia the daughter. Oldest of four children, who washed the dishes and did everything she was supposed to do. Keshia Knight Pulliam
dishes food
I was very impressed with the street food of Singapore. I was very impressed with the dishes that they did.
dishes melodies songs tables time washing
I was washing dishes at Del Frisco's Grille and busing tables at a Tex-Mex place and writing songs the whole time. I did a lot of my writing at those jobs, thinking up melodies in my head. Leon Bridges
dishes ground raw
One of my favorite dishes in the world used to be steak tartare, which is raw ground beef seasoned and then served. Eric Schlosser
dishes supper
A watched supper dish never fills! Charles M. Schulz
dishes elegant
Simple ingredients can be used to make elegant dishes with just a little extra attention to detail. Marcus Samuelsson
dust desert littles
Observation made in the cloister or in the desert will generally be as obscure as the one and as barren as the other; but he that would paint with his pencil must study originals, and not be over-fearful of a little dust.
dust two words-of-wisdom
"My good fellow," retorted Mr. Boffin, "you have my word; and how you can have that, without my honour too, I don't know. I've sorted a lot of dust in my time, but I never knew the two things go into separate heaps."
dust tea might
There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old women might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea...
dust devil not-afraid
The devil is not afraid of a dust-covered Bible.
dust way freak
Moths are the ones that freak me out. It's something to do with the way that, if they get squashed, they turn to dust. There's something very wrong about that. It all feels a bit Gothic. David Tennant
dust trying machines
Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak. Audre Lorde
dust ashes goodness
That which you create in beauty and goodness and truth lives on for all time to come. Don't spend your life accumulating material objects that will only turn to dust and ashes. Denis Waitley
dust long apollo
Dust in an urn long since, dispersed and dead Is great Apollo; and the happier he Edna St. Vincent Millay
dust settling things-to-do
The right thing to do is to let the dust settle. Ari Fleischer
hope struggle essence
Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.
hope balance heirs
Hope is a prodigal young heir, and Experience is his banker; but his drafts are seldom honoured, since there is often a heavy balance against him, because he draws largely on a small capital, is not yet in possession, and if he were, would die.
hope expectations heirs
Hope is a prodigal young heir, and experience is his banker.
hope heart lovely
There are hopes, the bloom of whose beauty would be spoiled by the trammels of description; too lovely, too delicate, too sacred for words, they should only be known through the sympathy of hearts.
hopes-and-fears seasons
Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons Chogyam Trungpa
hopefully takes work
We know what it takes to win. Hopefully we will do the work it takes to get back.
hope mental team weeks work
We know we will have the same mental breakdowns that every team will have, we just have to hope they don't come at inopportune times. At least then we will be able to work on them during the weeks to come.
hopefully improve means performance tough
We know we have to improve significantly on the Kettering performance. But hopefully that was a one off. It'll be tough up there but by no means impossible.
hopefully last strong struggled weekend
We struggled last weekend at Jacksonville. Hopefully this will jump-start us to have a strong end of the season. Chris Johnson
image
We want the image to be recognizable, that's our goal. Glenn Miller
images prose stamp whether
The poet, whether in prose or verse, the creator, can only stamp his images forcibly on the page, in proportion, as he has forcibly felt, ardently nursed, and long brooded over them
image orders ruled states united
The United States are ruled by a financial, media-centered, military-industrial apparatus. Behind Obama's grin, he orders bombings. He just displays a different image than Bush. That's how he expands U.S. global domination. Nicolas Maduro
image impervious longer magazine shows wearing women
You can no longer just have a magazine that shows you this glossy impervious image of women - in the studio, artificial, wearing a push-up bra. Natalie Massenet
image mind needs negative overcome
She needs to overcome the negative image planted in everyone's mind during the 2000 election. David Johnson
image people reaching scientific
When you're reaching out to people beyond the scientific community, image does matter. Lisa Randall
images jail police
I was just horrified. Images flashed before me of going to jail and being handcuffed and being put in a police car.
image trying
I think (Stern) is just trying to get our image back. Gary Payton
image keeps people playing unfair
I don't think people want the image of an unfair playing surface. I think that is the administration's issue. We all want to be at home, we want to be at our house, but if this keeps everyone happy, then we're happy.
people waiting thank-god
I can't wait to get off the bus and... go on stage and entertain people. That's my thing, that's what I love. I love doing it... I thank God I can make a living doing it. Charlie Daniels
people understand-me audience
The people are applauding you because none of them understands you and applauding me because everybody understands me. Charlie Chaplin
people special architecture
The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.
people helping i-can
I am for people. I can't help it.
people dictator
Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.
people wicked-world wonderful
Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone
people rich assured
If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich Charles Wagner
people want chance
The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation. Charles W. Pickering
people slavery congress
The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal. Charles Sumner
understanding mind half
It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.
understanding vietnam realizing
As I come to understand Vietnam and what it implies about the human condition, I also realize that few humans will permit themselves such an understanding. Alan Moore
understanding levels fox-news
There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics. David Shuster
understanding safe too-much
This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable. David Sedaris
understanding realizing understood
I'd always thought that I understood this, but lately I realize that what I call "understanding" is basically just fantasizing.
understanding humanity different
What helps you as an actor when it comes to roles is that deeper understanding of so many different fractions of humanity. Because oftentimes, even in comedy, there is conflict. David Koechner
understanding curiosity kind
Understanding is a kind of ecstasy Carl Sagan
understanding joining magnificence
The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos.
understanding humanity desire
There is a strength, a power even, in understanding brokenness, because embracing our brokenness creates a need and desire for mercy, and perhaps a corresponding need to show mercy. When you experience mercy, you learn things that are hard to learn otherwise. You see things you can't otherwise see; you hear things you can't otherwise hear. You begin to recognize the humanity that resides in each of us. Bryan Stevenson