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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? Dennis Potter
writing use young
You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young. Dennis Potter
kissing marilyn monroe
Necking with Marilyn Monroe is like kissing Hitler Tony Curtis
kissing giving joy
Every time you prefer the pleasures of this world to the joys of heaven, you spit in the face of Christ; every time when to gain in your business, you do an unrighteous thing, you are like Judas selling Him for thirty pieces of silver; every time you make a false profession of religion, you give Him a traitor's kiss; every word you have spoken against Him, every hard thought you have had of Him, has helped to complete your complicity with the great crowd which gathered around the Cross of Calvary, to mock and jeer the Lord of life and glory. Charles Spurgeon
kissing rocks age
I have learned to kiss the waves that throw me up against the Rock of Ages. Charles Spurgeon
kissing first-kiss world
The first kiss plummeted him down a hole and popped him out into a world he thought he could get along in—as if he’d been pulling hard the wrong way and was now turned around headed downstream. Denis Johnson
kissing world legislation
All the legislation in the world will not abolish kissing. Elinor Glyn
kissing simple two
Only he who loves and is loved for his own sake can be happy, and what produces that happiness is not so much the sense of sexual communion as of two people being together ... the sexual act viewed as a whole probably affords less happiness than a totally ordinary kiss or often indeed one simple word from the one you love. Elfriede Jelinek
kissing men awful
For a straight man, I seem to have to kiss an awful lot of men! Dominic West
kissing hell reactions
The kiss always gets a hell of a reaction. Dominic West
kissing phones pneumonia
What do you get when you kiss a guy? You get enough germs to catch pneumonia. After you do, he'll never phone you. Dionne Warwick
reader until
I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end. Barbara W. Tuchman
readers
I think a lot of readers are looking for a book they can talk about. Christina Baker Kline
readers whether
I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood. Binyavanga Wainaina
readers simply time work
Many readers know my work first through 'Housekeeping,' simply because it was my only novel for a pretty long time. Marilynne Robinson
reader
The reader really has to step up to the plate and read a short story. Tobias Wolff
readers suffer writers
There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of as 'Thorn Birds' Fever. Sarah MacLean
reader whether
If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero. Barry Eisler
reader
As a writer, you must know what promise your story or novel makes. Your reader will know. Nancy Kress
readers
Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it. Khaled Hosseini