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reading writing character
Mr. Pickwick took a seat and the paper, but instead of reading the latter, peeped over the top of it, and took a survey of the man of business, who was an elderly, pimply-faced, vegetable-diet sort of man, in a black coat, dark mixture trousers, and small black gaiters; a kind of being who seemed to be an essential part of the desk at which he was writing, and to have as much thought or sentiment. Charles Dickens
reading believe writing
I have nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess that no one can ever believe this narrative, in the reading, more than I have believed it in the writing.
reading writing style
Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written prose style is utterly unlike the spoken word. Charles Stross
reading years people
I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I'm all for reading through the Bible. But how much of that got on the inside, or did they just cover three more chapters today? I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it. Charles Stanley
reading age praying
It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age. Charles Spurgeon
reading believe water
To believe a thing is to see the cool crystal water sparkling in the cup. But to meditate on it is to drink of it. Reading gathers the clusters; contemplation squeezes forth their generous juice.
reading light giving
Give yourself to reading.’... You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as possible sound theological works, especially the Puritanic writers, and expositions of the Bible.
reading writing impossible
...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write. Alan Bennett
reading long enough
The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
blind ifs seeking
If we are not totally blind, what we are seeking is already here. This is it. Alan Watts
blind-spots people world
Sometimes you are ahead of people and sometimes people have blind spots. They can't see the world and they can't see what they do. David Shapiro
blinders braces girls mad pay
All I wanted was attention from girls when I was a kid. Then I got my braces off, and then there was too much attention, and I was also mad that they didn't pay attention to me in the first place. Then I was just like, I couldn't put on blinders and focus on one because there were too many options. Lucas Till
blind
The one thing you never say to a blind person is, 'Did you see that?' Walter Dean
blinders charged good maybe occurred whatever
When I went into film, it never occurred to me that I wouldn't be able to do whatever I wanted to do. Maybe that was a good thing in the beginning. I had blinders on, and I charged forward.
blind-love kind blind
When life leaves us blind, love keeps us kind. Chester Bennington
blinds nocturnal writers
We writers are shy, nocturnal creatures. Push us into the light and the light blinds us. John Banville
blinding fire god good hail send shall unless
Unless God send his hail / Or blinding fire balls, sleet or stifling snow, / In some time, his good time, I shall arrive. Robert Browning
blind brute mere strength union unless wisely
Union may be strength, but it is mere blind brute strength unless wisely directed. Samuel Butler
novelty impress please
Novelties please less than they impress.
novel mediums prose
My medium is prose, not the novel. David Shields
novel
For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed. David Mitchell
novelists novel livelihood
I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.
novel
I used to read only fiction. Now I don't read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison novel. David Quammen
novel could-have-been has-beens
History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been. Edmond de Goncourt
novelty please accounts
Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account. David Hume
novel knows
When you decide to adapt some Russian novel, it's like everyone knows about it but nobody has read it. Audrey Tautou
novel monologues i-can
This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue. Carol Shields