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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.
plot lucky
I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me Caroline B. Cooney
plot shapes divinity
Rashly, And praised be rashness for it--let us know, Our indiscretion sometime serves us well When our deep plots do pall, and that should learn us There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will William Shakespeare
plot cliche generic
The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find. Ben Stiller
plot communist buried
Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot. Edgar Bergen
plot three scene
A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization. Ayn Rand
plot-lines stories easy
It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get the plot line on. Carol Anshaw
plot care want
I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way. Barry Hannah
plot dames christie
I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie). Connie Willis
plot
We can't even plot it on a map.
research just-being producers
But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public Bernice Johnson Reagon
research fields modern
Never before in the history of the modern research university have entire departments and fields been devoted to purely ideological pursuits. David Horowitz
research sociopath psychopath
I'm a high-functioning sociopath, do your research. Benedict Cumberbatch
research
I don't research anything. Derek Bailey
research can-do
Do not do anything that anyone else can do readily. Edwin Land
research conducting finished
One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish. Barbara Tuchman
research sociopath psychopath
I'm not a psychopath, I'm a fully functioning sociopath. Do your research. Arthur Conan Doyle
research-and-development impact environmental
The industrial processes in use today were developed at a time when no one had to consider what the environmental impact was. Who cared? But making ecological concerns matter to a company's bottom line will help it do the research and development that will reinvent everything we buy. Daniel Goleman
research
All I'm armed with is research. Mike Wallace