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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.
ways
Motorola to me in some ways is a very disappointing company, Roger McNamee
ways
More and more we need to find ways to get them on the field. They are very athletic, and I think they can contribute. Mike Stoops
way littles deals
The way to do a great deal is to keep on doing a little. The way to do nothing at all is to be continually resolving that you will do everything.
way energy poet
A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem itself to, all the way over to, the reader. Charles Olson
way theater our-lives
Im always interested in looking - historically - at how theater can animate history and how all of that can make us engage with our lives in an enriching way. Diane Paulus
way done yeast
A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.
way censure
The readiest and surest way to get rid of censure, is to correct ourselves. Demosthenes
way connections language
For most women, the language of conversation is primarily a language of rapport: a way of establishing connections and negotiating relationships. Deborah Tannen
way found certain
Many, many composers have only found their way to a certain form, through familiarizing themselves with texts. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
publishing
I wrote my first novel-length story when I was 14 but had no idea what to do with it. Brisbane was a long way from the publishing industry then. Nowhere's a long way from the publishing industry now. Nick Earls
publishing
I was publishing when I was 20, 21. And it really never stopped. Daniel Berrigan
publishing-house self ideas
All major publishing houses have these big fat biographies sitting there, waiting for people to die. All you have to do is slap on the end and put in on the market. It's that kind of commoditization and completion of your life before you die - and this kind of imposition of a public idea of self that replaces the actual living self - that I find so frightening. Chuck Palahniuk
publishing
I started a publishing company just so I could get the phone numbers of everyone that I'd ever admired.
publishing-house assistants firsts
First, I was a fact checker for Zagat and then I was an editorial assistant for HarperCollins publishing house. Anna Chlumsky
publishing work
I'm working on my own work, my own publishing company.
publishing serious sorts vices
These are the sorts of fundamental publishing vices of the most serious kind.
publishing signed steps taken
I've never taken the steps to be 'successful': I've never had a manager or signed to a publishing house. J. Tillman
publishing retailing stay top worried
They're worried about publishing and retailing like everyone else in the business, and this may be a way for them to stay on top of this.