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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.
call clear information resources
We want them to have clear information about this subject, and resources to call on. Fred Engh
call effort takes
We want them to call us. It takes a collaborative effort with our partners.
calling answers levels
The honest answer is more complex. On some level I was sent. Or inspired. Or called. But my calling, such as it was, wasn't a single booming invitation from above (really, is it ever?)... Chris Bohjalian
calling expect instead matter plays
We know what he would expect us to do, and it was just a matter of me calling the plays instead of him.
calling felt music saying
When I was a little boy, I was reading Dante and I was saying to myself 'Bravo, Dante, Bravo.' It's so beautiful, the music, the sound, the meaning. I felt like calling him by phone, like a friend. Roberto Benigni
calls companies expensive family kid navigate phone trying
When I was a kid trying to communicate with family in the Soviet Union, it was very difficult. You had to go through the long-distance phone companies like MCI, which were difficult to navigate and expensive to make calls through. Jan Koum
call guy
wake-up call for every guy going through these houses.
call eventually firm helped herself individual intern interview jordan monica park public relations understand vernon whatever york
Vernon Jordan is an individual who I understand helped Monica get an interview with a public relations firm in New York where she was eventually going to -- and may still -- park herself as an entry-level intern or apprentice, or whatever they call it in that trade.
calling uncomfortable okay
I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that. David Sedaris
class hatred today
The ruling classes today nourish the conviction that national hatreds and rivalries are inevitable. Charles Trevelyan
class sometimes failing
Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things. Charles Dudley Warner
class two people
Mr Jarndyce, and prevented his going any farther, when he had remarked that there were two classes of charitable people: one, the people who did a little and made a great deal of noise; the other, the people who did a great deal and made no noise at all.
class words-of-wisdom success-of-others
The worst class of sum worked in the every-day world is cyphered by the diseased arithmeticians who are always in the rule of Subtraction as to the merits and successes of others, and never in Addition as to their own.
class safety age
Though we are perpetually bragging of it [the middle class] as our safety, it is nothing but a poor fringe on the mantle of the upper class.
class citizens degradation
The American elite is almost beyond redemption. . . . Moral relativism has set in so deeply that the gilded classes have become incapable of discerning right from wrong. Everything can be explained away, especially by journalists. Life is one great moral mush--sophistry washed down with Chardonnay. The ordinary citizens, thank goodness, still adhere to absolutes.... It is they who have saved the republic from creeping degradation while their 'betters' were derelict.
class homicide one-thing
When one thing takes another away, what do we call that?” she asked my class. “Homicide!” I called out Chris Colfer
class
We know what kind of class we have. Angela Ruggiero
class lose past worrying
We know we have nothing to lose and everything to prove. We're past worrying about (Class) A and double-A.
good-mood sometimes mood
The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.
goods
Money and goods are certainly the best of references.
good-morning beauty nature
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
good-friend trying disability
Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason
good-life two evil
Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine. Charles Caleb Colton
good-things cruelty
A good thing can't be cruel.
good-man energy attention
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful. Charles Simmons
good-day writing emotional
If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that. Alan Moore
goodbye farewell heart
The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart. Alan Alda
indicator main people report waiting
I think the unemployment report is the main indicator people are waiting for this week.
indicator information
I think that the more information we have on a student, the better indicator we have of their prospective success.
indicator leading lied next percent recession
Our leading indicator - the one that's never lied to us like the politicians - suggests only 23 percent probability of recession over the next 12 months, that's very low.
indicator next settled strong
I don't have a number, but I have a strong indicator that it will be settled before we play next weekend. Jim Calhoun
indicator network people relevant social understand value work
How your social network - the people that you know, or in your community - understand or value a work can be... a tremendously relevant indicator of how important or meaningful it's going to be to you. David Weinberger
indicator playing playoff
When you're playing playoff teams, it is more of an indicator of where we are and how we're playing. Bob Hill
indicator pew report system
The Pew report is another indicator that the immigration system is broken. John Cornyn
indicator
It's not an indicator one way or another.
indicator
It's an indicator of what's happening, but (the numbers) really don't tell the whole story, Julius Peppers
relevant not-sure
I'm not sure that I'm really relevant as a director anymore. Or as a writer, either, to tell you the truth. Billy Bob Thornton
relevant work
I think the first things that are relevant are that things should work well; they should function. Robin Day
relevant
Don't let the measurable drive out the relevant Albert Einstein
relevant trying
We're not trying to be Target, we're trying to be Wal-Mart but more relevant to our customer. John Fleming
relevant written
I don't see that books can be written without political context - not if they're relevant and ambitious. Sarah Hall
relevant selling unless
I happen to like selling clothes as much as creating them. It isn't relevant unless it sells. Jason Wu
relevant
I'd rather be relevant than cool. Alber Elbaz
relevant seemed sexual
It wasn't just that they wanted to be around them. It seemed to be particularly relevant to the sexual interaction, the stimulation they would receive.
relevant three
It's a classic, and it's been relevant to three generations of children.
somebody wished
You get everything you could have ever wished for if you're willing to give that eternal bliss away to somebody else, to give it back. Michael Franti
somebody
We want somebody who's going to do a lot for the county. We're not going to rush.
somebody
We want somebody who is really going to do it.
somebody waiting
We're just waiting for somebody to fall. It's going to happen.
somebody stay wants
Let's put somebody in there that wants to stay and will be successful.
somebody step
Somebody just has to step up and take over. With our backs, somebody will do it. Rich Rodriguez
somebody
Somebody is supplying these lawyers. They've got an agenda.
somebody step
Somebody is going to have to step in and take the load.
somebody
Somebody is going to have to play that hasn't been out there.
time time-management enough
There's time enough, but none to spare. Charles W. Chesnutt
time dark mind
In the dark attics of our minds, all times mingle.
time son boys
A boy's story is the best that is ever told.
time fool calendars
Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.
time all-things
Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.
time retreat tides
Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.
time two black
Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
time looks one-thing
To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
time world overcoming
Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.
turns expected
things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up
turns satisfying limitation
How completely satisfying to turn from [our] limitations to a God who has none. Aiden Wilson Tozer
turns marvelous guise
Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise. Denise Levertov
turns
I'm not somebody that opens a playbook and just turns and reads and reads. That doesn't do it for me. Tim Tebow
turns indication ifs
If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false. Dean Kamen
turns humans
God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away.... Dietrich Bonhoeffer
turns magnificent
It turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It's love. Ben Harper
turns
I thought I wanted a career, turns out I just wanted paychecks.
turns
My brain never turns off of songwriting. Every conversation, everything I see, I'm just kind of like a sponge and I soak it up. Dustin Lynch
university-professors years half
Fewer than half of all university professors publish as much as one article per year. Derek Bok
university
I actually went to university. Ben Barnes
university university-education
I didn't completed my University Education Bill Gates
university university-education
I didn't even complete my University Education
university
I think this will show the university that we are a responsible community.
university-professors media people
For I must not measure the speech of a statesman to his people by the impression which it leaves in a university professor, but by the effect it exerts on the people. And this alone gives the standard for the speaker's genius. Adolf Hitler
university-professors said late
Once when I went over my work with my Washington University professor, the late great Stanley Elkin, he pointed to a passage of mine and said: Stop vamping. It has remained a caution. Adam Ross
university
I was in the military, and then I went to university to study biology. Lars Mikkelsen
university
We're not going to be scared. We're going to be pumped. Nervousness is not a part of the University of Texas. Vince Young
work quality may
Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work. Alan Watts
work apology giving
Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology. Alan Clark
work mean doing-nothing
If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means. Alan Bennett
work sleep thinking
A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves. Alan Ayckbourn
work play able
You've got to get good habits of working hard so that when that play comes up during the regular season that you're able to complete it and do it the right way. Al Kaline
work people kind
Japanese people tend to be much better adjusted to the notion of work, any kind of work, as honorable. Akio Morita
workout training cardio
I do a dance-based cardio workout infused with circuit training, and emphasizing strength and alignment. Chloe Sevigny
work
Very enthusiastic and very intelligent. I know he'll work at it.
work looks calm
Work, look for peace and calm in work: you will find it nowhere else. Dmitri Mendeleev