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writing dust skeletons
What is important is the story. Because when we are all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're dancing with our own skeletons - our words might be all that's left of us. Alexandra Fuller
writing giving people
We need to give out portrayal of ourselves. Every non-Indian writer writes about 1860 to 1890 pretty much, and there is no non-Indian writer that can write movies about contemporary Indians. Only Indians can. Indians are usually romanticized. Non-Indians are totally irrepsonsible with the appropriation of Indians, because any time tou have an Indian in a movie, it's political. They're not used as people, they're used as points. Chris Eyre
writing dust damnation
There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write 'damnation' with your fingers. Charles Spurgeon
writing tears pockets
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. Charles Peguy
writing eight ideas
Oh, I had an idea for a pilot of my own at the time, and then Carl sent me about eight scripts and simply I threw my idea out the window because the writing was just so good. Dick Van Dyke
writing sometimes enough
Sometimes you can write a great scene, but when you're actually in a situation and it doesn't work, you have to be flexible enough to make it work for you. Diane Kruger
writing analysis fiction
There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work. Dennis Potter
writing speech metaphor
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?
writing use young
You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.
literature
Of course, horror/fantasy has always been this disreputable stepchild of literature. Frank Darabont
literature language music-is
Good music is very close to primitive language. Denis Diderot
literature make-it-happen happens
You have to make it happen.
literature midnight weak
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary. Edgar Allan Poe
literature danger terror
I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
literature
The thing we fear we bring to pass. Elbert Hubbard
literature anticipation remember
If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.
literature shapes degrees
Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it. Elizabeth Bowen
literature outcomes language
Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.
firsts glory
You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.
firsts first-time virgins
You can only be a virgin once. There can only be one first time. Diane Lane
firsts steps first-steps
A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it... Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
firsts steps first-steps
Scepticism is the first step towards truth.
firsts records genre
I never excluded any genre on my first record. Deana Carter
firsts strangest-secret
We've got to be of service first before we can expect money. Earl Nightingale
firsts newspapers
[On newspapers:] A first draft of history. Elizabeth Drew
firsts fine
The first thing a proprietor learns, and painfully at that, is: Trust is fine, but control is better. Elfriede Jelinek
firsts how-to-love know-how
Forgiveness belongs to those who know how to love in the first place. Deepak Chopra