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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.
learning enemy safe
It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends. Charles Caleb Colton
learning ignorance knowledge
The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions and definitions, are the products of his own thought. They help him to use the world for purposes of his own devising rather than understand and explain it. Alan Watts
learning evolution programming
Optimization hinders evolution. Alan Perlis
learning nouns programming
Any noun can be verbed.
learning thinking language
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
learning thinking knowing
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
learning machines program
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
learn offspring reason
We want them to go back to doing what they used to do, which is migrate. The reason they migrate is for food. When they don't migrate, their offspring don't learn to migrate. Bruce Barber
learn people stop tolerant
We want to stop profiling. The more that people learn about Islam, the more tolerant they become.
music writing guitar
I do more writing by myself than with anybody else. My best thing is sitting...around somewhere with a guitar, and having an idea. You never know where it'd come from. Songwriting is a God-given talent. Charlie Daniels
music voice singing
One of the advantages of pure congregational singing is that you can join in the singing whether you have a voice or not. The disadvantage is that your neighbor can do the same. Charles Dudley Warner
music music-is
I started making music because I could. Alanis Morissette
music i-am-what-i-am
I am what I am Are you what you are or What?
music song writing
Writing a song doesn't heal things. Even if the song comes up with a solution, it's still only a theory. Going out and living my lyrics is a whole other deal. That takes courage.
music rest-of-your-life helping
Music helps you find the truths you must bring into the rest of your life.
music effort blues-music
You have to make a decided effort to not get seduced by the Blues. Al Jarreau
music
Once you discover that you can, then you must.
musical grew theater
I grew up doing musical theater. Chris Colfer
needed veto
I know what it was like to not have a voice, so my daughter has a voice. I veto that voice when needed because at the end of the day I am the grown-up, but I hear her. Lorraine Toussaint
needed prove relaxed
'Body of Proof' was interesting because... I didn't feel I needed to prove anything in that audition. I didn't over-prepare it, but I was just very relaxed in it.
needed reason signature
The only reason I did it is because I needed a signature piece. George Thorogood
needed
I challenged things that needed to be challenged at Purdue. Earl Butz
needed stepped whenever
Whenever we needed a play made, he stepped up and made a play.
needed whether
Whether that sparked our hitting, I don't know, but we needed a spark.
needed recover year
We've been able to make adjustments needed to recover from breakdowns. This year we are much more deep.
needed spot
When I needed him in the spot that I needed him, he was there. Corey Nakatani
needed
When I needed him in spots, he was there for me.
pursue trying
I'm undeniably very nerdy, but I'm trying to recognize and pursue more masculine pursuits. Thomas Middleditch
pursue
I think it's just really important for youth today to have a passion and pursue something seriously. Kerri Strug
pursue rub shoulders similar wish
If we wish to rub shoulders with them, then we have to pursue a similar strategy.
pursue
We'll aggressively pursue ... (the lawsuit) as was planned.
pursued
That's the strategy that myself and my party have pursued and are pursuing. John Hume
pursue pursued takes
I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued 'Hamilton,' but I couldn't write a book, because there's no applause at the end of writing a book. Lin-Manuel Miranda
pursue pushed realised towards
I wanted to be a pilot, but I was always drawing bodies. When I realised I wanted to pursue something creative, my parents pushed me towards architecture. Hussein Chalayan
pursue
I loved being on stage, but I told myself that if I didn't get into RADA, I wouldn't pursue an acting career. I did get in, though, and that was that. Oona Chaplin
pursue typical
There's not really a choice about, am I going to pursue a typical career? Because I'm not the typical standard, so that's not even an option. America Ferrera
reading mind doe
Nothing is worth reading that does not require an alert mind.
reading book lambs
Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. Charles de Gaulle
reading writing character
Mr. Pickwick took a seat and the paper, but instead of reading the latter, peeped over the top of it, and took a survey of the man of business, who was an elderly, pimply-faced, vegetable-diet sort of man, in a black coat, dark mixture trousers, and small black gaiters; a kind of being who seemed to be an essential part of the desk at which he was writing, and to have as much thought or sentiment.
reading believe writing
I have nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess that no one can ever believe this narrative, in the reading, more than I have believed it in the writing.
reading writing style
Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written prose style is utterly unlike the spoken word. Charles Stross
reading years people
I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I'm all for reading through the Bible. But how much of that got on the inside, or did they just cover three more chapters today? I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it. Charles Stanley
reading age praying
It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age. Charles Spurgeon
reading believe water
To believe a thing is to see the cool crystal water sparkling in the cup. But to meditate on it is to drink of it. Reading gathers the clusters; contemplation squeezes forth their generous juice.
reading light giving
Give yourself to reading.’... You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as possible sound theological works, especially the Puritanic writers, and expositions of the Bible.