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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.
stories whole
We can’t always tell the whole story about ourselves. Denis Johnson
stories four philippines
I didnt finish the stories until we went to the Philippines and I got malaria. I couldnt work and I didnt have any money, but I had seven stories. So I wrote three or four more.
stories seekers
You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders. Edgar Allan Poe
stories may faces
About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome. Eleanor Roosevelt
stories speak shoulders
So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me. Eduardo Galeano
stories pages way
I HATED the Salinger story. It took me days to go through it, gingerly, a page at a time, and blushing with embarrassment for him every ridiculous sentence of the way. How can they let him do it? Elizabeth Bishop
stories sad-story
A lot of sad stories in a row - that wears on you. Elizabeth Edwards
stories short-story experiments
every short story is an experiment - what one must ask is not only, did it come off, but was it, as an experiment, worth making? Elizabeth Bowen
stories action ends
Story involves action. Action towards an end not to be foreseen (by the reader) but also towards an end which, having been reached, must be seen to have been from the start inevitable.
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