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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.
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 talent problem
Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem. Jonathan Coe
fiction-and-nonfiction telling-the-truth constraints
In nonfiction, you have that limitation, that constraint, of telling the truth. Peter Matthiessen
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 fiction stuff
But I don't read a lot of fiction. I prefer the nonfiction stuff. Andy Richter
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 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
nonfiction fiction fiction-and-nonfiction
It's hard to do fiction and nonfiction simultaneously. Erica Jong