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american-novelist musicality point
The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content. Rick Moody
american-novelist time tour
Usually by the time I finish a book tour I've just about had it with the book. Richard Russo
american-novelist create decorative exotic material
With my gaudy, exotic material I wanted to create large, dreamy constructions that would not be decorative but powerfully expressive. Edmund White
american-novelist exhibit form masses men public substitute usual vice
It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny. James F. Cooper
american-novelist imaginary ingenuity leaving office safety skills test
Through Kinsey, I get to test my ingenuity and my skills with imaginary firearms... all without leaving the safety of my office chair. Sue Grafton
american-novelist assertion doubly human humor insults known
There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble. Sinclair Lewis
american-novelist destroyed man
Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated. Ernest Hemingway
american-novelist behavior best enter extremely human life nuances realm
Life is extremely complicated. I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior and alternatives of that behavior. Robert Ludlum
american-novelist fiction truth
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense. Leo Rosten
quitting sometimes relapse
There's no such thing as quitting. Just sometimes there's a longer pause between relapses. Alan Moore
quitting
What happened was that none of that [Emmy nomination] really happened. Numbers flew under the radar, and so around the fourth season, I got really jaded and I wanted to quit. David Krumholtz
quite state sure
We're in a state where we're not quite sure what's happened, Richard Cook
quit
I've never thought I wanted to quit in my research. I would always fail in experiments, which I did at least three times a day. Hiroshi Amano
quit
We're not going to quit and we just have to keep working. Darcy Tucker
quitting break
Some things are best mended by a break. Edith Wharton
quitter knows
But you know, I'm just not a quitter. David Duval
quite unless
Unless he does something drastically amazing, or I play really poorly, I should be quite comfortable. O. Singh
quite remain vigilant
We're quite pleased, but we have to remain vigilant about this. Joe Linklater
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. Charles Dickens
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. Charles Spurgeon
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. Charles Spurgeon
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. Alan Bennett
until worked
Until 1998, I worked in marketing at ASB bank. I loved it. Jonah Lomu
until
Divorce was illegal in Chile up until 2005 or so. Hector Tobar
until
We're going to look. We'll always look until we get that solved. Jerry Angelo
until
We're going to keep doing it until (the problem) disappears. Ed Troyer
until wait
Wait until you see what we have planned. Ruth Miller
until
I didn't have an exhibition anywhere until I was 30. My first exhibition was at 30, and then for my first show in America, I'm 50. It's kind of all right: I'm just a slow burner. Tracey Emin
until
We must not only strike the iron while it is hot, we must strike it until it is hot. Tom Sharpe
until
I started with the guitar around 12 years old but didn't learn the banjo until I was about 18 or 19. Elle King
until
She's about 40 pounds. She just sits there until I get annoyed. Miles Austin