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american-novelist musicality point
The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content. Rick Moody
american-novelist burden freedom lose realize until
Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is. Margaret Mitchell
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 eminent figures opposite questions raised reality rhetoric
The reality has been the opposite of the rhetoric especially when questions have been raised about eminent figures in the establishment. Serge Lang
american-novelist
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there. Thomas Berger
american-novelist art asking questions science source
The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.
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.
certain diffidence valour
Discretion has been termed the better part of valour, and it is more certain, that diffidence is the better part of knowledge. Charles Caleb Colton
certain one-thing
For whatever the future holds, one thing is certain... It just won't be the same. Alan Moore
certainly chances contested inside knew rather stretch
We knew they would stretch our defense. We wanted to take some chances on Marsh inside and she certainly made some plays. But I'd rather give up a 2 contested over a 3. That's a little less.
certainly georgia shown team tech
We know we have to play well. Georgia Tech is a young team that certainly has shown it can play. Gary Williams
certain companies dollar experience nursing pay people top
We know companies that would pay top dollar to find people who have the right experience for certain nursing positions.
certainly venture
Venture capitalists certainly create value for themselves, but they also singularly create value for the rest of the world.
certain player ultimately
Ultimately the player makes this decision, to a certain degree,
certainty evidence deals
Science deals in evidence and uncertainty. Religion deals in certainty without evidence. David Milne
certain head movies
I think there's certain things that I know in my head that I enjoy: action movies. Lucas Till
humorous might canada
Quebec from the boat looked like the ramparts where Hamlet's ghost might have walked. Charlie Chaplin
humorous rejection acting
Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.
humor wicked-world politician
I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
humanity certain provision
Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions. Charles Wagner
humble science imagination
My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention
humble desire increase
I feel an earnest and humble desire, and shall do till I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerfulness.
humility discovery design
It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design.
humor envy praise
Expect not praise without envy until you are dead.
humility greatness men
Some men who know that they are great are so very haughty withal and insufferable that their acquaintance discover their greatness only by the tax of humility which they are obliged to pay as the price of their friendship.
instant
You are here for but an instant, and you mustn't take yourself too seriously Edgar Rice Burroughs
instant lingering readings
The readings are at once instant in their appeal, and lingering in their impact. Andrew Motion
instantly journey knew met rest share
When we all met her, we instantly knew she was the only person to share the rest of the journey with us. Heidi Range
instant provides steal
She provides instant defense. And she can get a steal at any time.
instant open penalties proposal remember replay sought
I don't remember a proposal on instant replay that sought to open up all penalties for review.
instant term
I don't think we're going to get the instant value that we would have from the spin-off, but we'll get it over the long term and that's just fine.
instantly slowly starve
I thought it would be better to starve slowly over there than instantly over here.
instant stopped voted
I don't know who voted in instant replay, but it about stopped my heart. Bobby Johnson
instant stopped voted
I don't know who in the world voted in instant replay, ... But it about stopped my heart.
snapped sticks thinking
We were in disarray for awhile, squeezing our sticks and thinking too much, but we snapped out of it. Mats Sundin
snapped
Every person has their lulls. But I think I snapped out of my lulls and started to get better. Rudy Gay
snapped
I could have been a professional footballer and trialled with Blackburn Rovers. But I snapped my cruciate ligaments, an injury that has dogged me ever since.
stopped vehicles
Vehicles are being stopped and inspected as they should be.
stop
We've got a new attitude. We want to stop the run.
stop team three
We're going to have three of these pep rallies here. Nothing's going to stop this team now.
stop trying
We're just trying to get them all up because we want to stop another problem.
stopping
How about not equating death with stopping? Alanis Morissette
stopping action truth-is
Learning more truth is a poor and cheap substitute for stopping and putting into action the truth already learned Charles R. Swindoll
stopping range bombing
Stopping Vieques bombing range good; sooner is better. Ed Pastor
stopping until win
We're going down there and going down to win and we're not stopping until we do that.
stopped
She wouldn't be around if she hadn't stopped smoking, Barbara Warren