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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.
bookstores hanging love people talking
I hate that bookstores are closing. Hate it! What's better than hanging out a bookstore, be it independent or chain, and talking books with people who love books? Lisa Jackson
bookstores
A place isn't a place until it has a bookstore. Gabrielle Zevin
bookstores decade last learned libraries people trying
One thing libraries have learned from bookstores in the last decade is marketing. We're trying to entice people to read. Gene Nelson
bookstores love novel
I love bookstores and booksellers. In my novel 'Dirty Martini,' I thanked over 3,000 booksellers by name in the back matter. J. A. Konrath
bookstores upsets
I don't go into bookstores because it upsets me,
bookstores harvard
When I went away to college, I marveled at the wealth of bookstores around Harvard Square. John Updike
bookstores cards collecting collectors deck form greed hand libraries print serious shops sitting supposedly visiting
Sitting with a deck of cards in your hand all day is an obsession. Visiting print shops and bookstores and libraries is an obsession. And writing about this is an obsession. I think, in general, most collectors are obsessed. I think the only form of a rationalized greed is when you're collecting something you are supposedly serious about. Ricky Jay
bookstores definitely kids
Kids definitely go into bookstores after reading 'Twilight' and want something else like it. P. C. Cast
bookstores fiction mainstream romance woman
Bookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section. I write mainstream fiction about women.
questions-and-answers
Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much. Francis Bacon
questions-and-answers world
Who am I? How did I come into the world? Why was I not consulted? Soren Kierkegaard