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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.
expectations world too-late
We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.
expectations people words-of-wisdom
So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
expectations woods grain
No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.
expectations ugly helping
Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?
expectations shining quality
Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities. Charles Caleb Colton
expectations done defying
I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting. Alan Rickman
expectations sacred looks
With a sacred expectation, I look for God in ALL of the circumstances of my day. Aiden Wilson Tozer
expectations goodness
Always God’s goodness is the ground of our expectation.
expectations firsts novel
If you read the novel, you have expectations. And, if you've seen something first, it's just hard to do. Chloe Grace Moretz
lows involuntary homage
Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.
lows lowest
It's true in life, as in the movies, that the greatest highs are often followed by the lowest lows. Cary Elwes
lows high-notes
I've never held myself up particularly high when I had movies that worked, and I never held myself all that low when I had failures. Ben Affleck
lows
How low am I, thou painted maypole? (Hermia to Helena) William Shakespeare
lows standards
I have my standards. They're low, but I have them. Bette Midler
lows higher
Those who were high go down low, and those who've been low go up higher. Anzia Yezierska
lows persons expected
How could I do it, how could a person go that low? And I understand your question, to which I reply, Are you kidding? That's nothing. I'd been much lower than that. And I expected to see myself do worse. Denis Johnson
lows
They say for every high high there must be a low low low low low Bat for Lashes
lows knows
I don't know a high C from a low C. Brett Somers