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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.
average careers long
An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends to require a bunch of experience of human life that takes time to acquire. So your average mid-career novelist is in their forties to fifties! Charles Stross
average effort excellent
If a person becomes content with what is average, minimally acceptable, or satisfactory, she will rarely exert the effort or work toward something that is truly excellent or outstanding. Charles Stanley
average space complicated
Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen. Alan Guth
average fading saws
I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading. Alan Greenspan
average excellence refuse
Refuse to be average. Aiden Wilson Tozer
average lasts halls
Last time I checked, there is no 'Hall of Average.' Chip Kelly
average people sides
I'm pretty happy. I obviously have complaints about things, but for the most part, I'm on the above-average side of happy people. David Cross
average sound band
Average band with a great drummer sounds great, great band with an average drummer sounds average. Buddy Rich
average people half
Average people didn't analyze what they thought: they thought they thought, and half of it was gut reaction. C. J. Cherryh
poetry should
Why then we should drop into poetry.
poetry mind body
Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind. Camille Paglia
poetry wish way
Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by. C. K. Williams
poetry essentials needs
Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We're involved in a mystery. Poetry uses words to put us in touch with that mystery. We're always going to need it. Edward Hirsch
poetry use would-be
it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion. Edith Sitwell
poetry humanity
We can't separate our humanity from our poetry ... Elizabeth Barrett Browning
poetry silence never-quit
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. Charles Simic
poetry
Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it. Natasha Trethewey
poetry teach
poetry had everything to teach me about life. Diane Ackerman