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writing hair fire
Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up... Charles Dickens
writing numbers gold
Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither. Charles Caleb Colton
writing language nonsense
It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
writing men profound
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
writing faces privacy
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
writing men three
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
writing should-have fire
We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.
writing self hints
The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author's that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
writing two style
When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such persons do not understand themselves; and secondly, that they are not worthy of being understood by others.
genre divided
Life isn't divided into genres Alan Moore
genre-is prison minimum
Genre is a minimum security prison, David Shields
genre hard
There's not a single genre that is hard to find or hard to get. Billy Gibbons
genre
Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre. Carlos Fuentes
genres mom nor talked
When I was a kid, I read many of my mom's books. Sometimes, there were mysteries, but there were no delineations, and my mother never talked about book genres. Nor did we differentiate genres in school. M. J. Rose
genre perceives provided sympathy
I'm completely indifferent to what genre I read provided that I feel sympathy with how a writer perceives being alive in the world. Thomas Ligotti
genre till
I am not doing comedy because the genre is successful. If that was the case, I would have done a run-of-the-mill comedy film. I set my own trends. I like to give something new and different to my audiences. I want to do the kind of comedy that has been missing till now. Emraan Hashmi
genre
It's really not the genre for me, or the venue, it's the writing. Kathy Najimy
genre grew movies
I think there have been more movies in the Western genre than any other. I grew up watching those movies. Tom Selleck
mediocre deterrent
the great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre Elizabeth Hardwick
mediocre overall report tone
The overall tone of the report is pretty mediocre at this point.
mediocre
A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent. Cyril Connolly
mediocre
La mort n'est que pour les me diocres. Death is only for the mediocre. Alfred Jarry
mediocre prospects regain sector services struggle
Prospects for services are mediocre and the sector will struggle to regain dynamism. David Frost
mediocre
They have nothing to celebrate. Revenues were just 'blah' all around. Very mediocre in all segments.
mediocre
He's only mediocre, jealousy can't get with me. LL Cool J
mediocre-life mediocre satisfied
Let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life. Pope Francis
mediocre
To be popular I must be mediocre. Oscar Wilde