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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.
fiction-and-nonfiction division concerned
There's no division on my bookshelf between fiction and nonfiction. As far as I'm concerned, fiction is about the truth. Arundhati Roy
fiction-and-nonfiction telling-the-truth constraints
In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth. Peter Matthiessen
fiction-and-nonfiction talent problem
Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem. Jonathan Coe
nonfiction memoir
For me, a memoir is nonfiction and nonfiction has to be absolutely true. Akhil Sharma
nonfiction bookstores internet
In this time of the Internet and nonfiction, to be on an actual bookshelf in an actual bookstore is exciting in itself. Chris Abani
nonfiction fans novel
I don't read that many novels, I'm more of a nonfiction fan. Cory Monteith
nonfiction fiction fiction-and-nonfiction
I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction. Anne Lamott
nonfiction special written
I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift. Tim LaHaye
nonfiction fiction stuff
But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff. Andy Richter
nonfiction dies
Nonfiction is never going to die. Tom Wolfe
nonfiction written
I've written fiction... but the nonfiction has always received the most attention. Jim Murphy
nonfiction truth
If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward. Candice Millard