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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. Charles de Lint
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. Charles de Lint
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. Charles de Lint
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? Charles de Lint
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. Charles Dickens
book night men
Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking. Charles Dickens
book reading writing
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. Charles Dickens
faithful france epoch
For all of us Frenchmen, the guiding rule of our epoch is to be faithful to France. Charles de Gaulle
faithful promise may
Only as He is faithful will His covenants stand and His promises be honored. Only as we have complete assurance that He is faithful may we live in peace and look forward with assurance to the life to come. Aiden Wilson Tozer
faithful age novelty
A pleasant comedy, which paints the manners of the age, and exposes a faithful picture of nature, is a durable work, and is transmitted to the latest posterity. But a system, whether physical or metaphysical, commonly owes its success to its novelty; and is no sooner canvassed with impartiality than its weakness is discovered. David Hume
faithful mars reputation
It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public. Arnold Bennett
faithful age mets
Geoffrey [Boycott] is the only fellow I've ever met who fell in love with himself at a young age and has remained faithful ever since Dennis Lillee
faithful fans opportunity
There are a lot of faithful Vanderbilt fans who haven't had an opportunity like this. Erik Davis
faithful temples missionary
When I marry, it will be to a faithful returned missionary in the Temple. Richard G. Scott
faithful church ransom
The Church limits her sacramental services to the faithful. Christ gave Himself upon the cross a ransom for all. Blaise Pascal
faithful daily-life great-things
Who can really be faithful in great things if he has not learned to be faithful in the things of daily life? Dietrich Bonhoeffer
garden may delight
Hoeing in the garden on a bright, soft May day, when you are not obligated to, is nearly equal to the delight of going trouting. Charles Dudley Warner
garden land cities
The thing generally raised on city land is taxes. Charles Dudley Warner
garden giving earth
There is one rule in the garden that is above all others. You must give to nature more than you take. Obey it, and the earth will provide you in glorious abundance. Alan Chadwick
garden doe gardener
The Gardener does not create the Garden. The Garden creates the Gardener. Alan Chadwick
garden gardener
It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener. Alan Chadwick
garden years piano
I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church. Al Jarreau
garden bombarded-by coconuts
In the garden of gentle sanity, May you be bombarded by the coconuts of wakefulness. Chogyam Trungpa
garden voice glasses
She finds tales everywhere, in grains of sand she picks up from the garden, in puffs of smoke that drift out from the chimneys of the village, in fragments of smooth timber or glass in the jetsam. She will ask them, "Where did you come from? How did you get here?" And they will answer her in voices very like her own, but with new lilts and squeaks and splashes in them that show they are their own. David Almond
garden bird dawn
Birdsong foamed in the hour-before-dawn garden. David Mitchell
inspirational motivational success
Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of myself as the greatest actor in the world. I had to feel the exuberance that comes from utter confidence in yourself. Without it, you go down to defeat. Charlie Chaplin
inspirational mean imagination
Imagination means nothing without doing. Charlie Chaplin
inspirational character men
A man's true character comes out when he's drunk. Charlie Chaplin
inspirational happiness pain
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it! Charlie Chaplin
inspirational relationship bullying
My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain. Charlie Chaplin
inspirational patient disability
Strokes are preventable and treatable. Prompt treatment of patients experiencing stroke saves lives and reduces disability. Charles W. Pickering
inspirational life speech
There is but one pleasure in life equal to that of being called on to make an after-dinner speech, and that is not being called on to make one. Charles Dudley Warner
inspirational funny thinking
When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself. Charles de Gaulle
inspirational success determination
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so. Charles de Gaulle
sort thinks turns viewer
You set up a story and it turns inside out and that is, for me, the most exciting sort of story to write. The viewer thinks it's going to be about something and it does the opposite. Nigel Kneale
sort until
Until they sort it out, we're not going to get in the way. John Godfrey
sort work
I think it's important to find the joy in your work and the things that sort of renew that. Ernie Hudson
sort trend
We're sort of bucking the trend a little bit. Paul Souza
sort
What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We've been knocked down, let's get back up' mentality. Candace Parker
sort start stuff teammate whether
We're just used to it. Every race, there's always some stuff that happens, whether it's a teammate or not. You sort of have to refocus at the start and go. Julia Mancuso
sort tends
When I'm on the set, I'll come up with ideas if I'm sort of just between responsibilities, because there's a lot of sitting around on set. Invariably, though, the stuff I come up with on the set tends to be bad. Bruce Eric Kaplan
sort
I always wanted to do some sort of action film - even a superhero movie - and when 'Lucy' came out, I was like, 'That's what I want to do.' Sarah Snook
sort
What we didn't want was it to be sort of a one-hit wonder. Lyle Bauer