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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.
chapters self-discovery
There are chapters in every life which are seldom read and certainly not aloud. Carol Shields
chapter colors computer divides last manuscript text turn
I have a color-coded computer spreadsheet that divides things down to chapter fragments. Each character's point-of-view is a different color. The text of the manuscript is color-coded the same way. The last thing I do before submitting the manuscript is turn all those colors back to black. Neal Shusterman
chapter creation grand history major public staircase
The creation of the Grand Staircase was a major chapter in the history of our public lands, Bruce Babbitt
chapters pictures wrote
When I finish a first draft, I often look back at first chapters I wrote and laugh at them. They're like pictures of yourself in middle school. You're embarrassed to see them. Scott Westerfeld
chapters happening headed light poem shining stage
Many chapters are headed by poem quotations. These epigraphs are another way of shining light on what is happening at this stage of the novel. Helen Dunmore
chapters written
There are other chapters to be written about that story. Chris Bell
chapter comments community last received resources since
Since the last meeting, you should have received from me comments on Chapter 7, which is the resources of community character.
chapters devoted groups high jewish joined school stopping
There are something like 300 anti-genocide chapters on college campuses around the country. It's bigger than the anti-apartheid movement. There are something like 500 high school chapters devoted to stopping the genocide in Darfur. Evangelicals have joined it. Jewish groups have joined it. Samantha Power
chapter city declare property support tax
The only way I would support a property tax is if the city was going to declare Chapter 9 municipal bankruptcy. We're not there yet.
good-mood sometimes mood
The thing with pretending you're in a good mood is that sometimes you can.
goods
Money and goods are certainly the best of references.
good-morning beauty nature
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.
good-friend trying disability
Try not to associate bodily defect with mental, my good friend, except for a solid reason
good-life two evil
Of two evils, it is perhaps less injurious to society, that good doctrine should be accompanied by a bad life, than that a good life should lend its support to a bad doctrine. Charles Caleb Colton
good-things cruelty
A good thing can't be cruel.
good-man energy attention
Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful. Charles Simmons
good-day writing emotional
If you give me a typewriter and I'm having a good day, I can write a scene that will astonish its readers. That will perhaps make them laugh, perhaps make them cry - that will have some emotional clout to it. It doesn't cost much to do that. Alan Moore
goodbye farewell heart
The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart. Alan Alda
groups camps
I have never believed in being part of any one group or camp. Akshay Kumar
groups join money motivated motivation possible raise rights surprise suspicious wanting
Ultimately, it wouldn't surprise me if this is a way for two different groups to raise as much money as possible and then join forces. We are suspicious of their motivation because we know they are motivated by wanting to take away the rights of our families.
groups care littles
In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward. David Shields
group hard
The personality of this group is it's a hardworking, blue-collar defense. It's as hard a working group that I've been around. Tom Bradley
groups local seeing shift sponsors state structured supported
We are seeing a shift from well-organized, local groups supported by state sponsors to more far-flung and loosely structured webs of terror,
group mean medical procedure
We are a group of medical professionals, but this is not medicine. Just because it is a procedure we do does not mean it is right.
groups key names solid stocks
There are some groups of stocks that always key off of one another. The solid names are the solid areas.
group guys hard line picket regular stopped time
We stopped the picket line because I was having a hard time getting a regular group of guys there, Mike McCarthy
group hard helping kids listened miss quite
We still miss Todd, especially. He had something the kids really listened to. This year's group (of seniors), they're working hard at that but they're just not quite there yet, not with as many young kids as we have now. Aaron's really helping in that regard.
library better-place
What better place to kill time than a library? Diane Setterfield
library democracy portal
Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries. David McCullough
library television film
Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries. David Strathairn
library librarian democratic
A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry. Thomas Jefferson
library fairy-tale tales
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library. Beverly Cleary
library stories shelves
...we are all a volume on the shelf of the... library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands. Deb Caletti
library shelter muse
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse. Barbara Tuchman
library united-states institutions
One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.. bell hooks
library hoaxes relief
Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax. Diana Wynne Jones
public-trust
I have never, not once, violated my public trust.
public
Where there is muck to be raked, it must be raked,and the public must know of it, that it may mete out justice....
publicity enough good-enough
If my work was good enough, I would never have to do publicity. David Duchovny
publicity
Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good. Carl Andre
publicity yards married
Aside from doing publicity for this film [The Longest Yard], I have Auto Maniac coming on the History Channel and since I got married recently, we are going to get to that Honeymoon we had to put off. Bill Goldberg
public-education clear hard
It's hard to improve public education - that's clear. Bill Gates
public-relations trump relation
Good policy always trumps bad public relations. And the best PR can't trump bad policy. Bob Schieffer
public-opinion opinion sentiments
What we call public opinion is generally public sentiment. Benjamin Disraeli
public-life
I've never had a very great public life. Cameron Mackintosh