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character
You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing. Carlos Ghosn
character long shapes
At 50 I find there is a long line of characters and shapes demanding words just outside my window. Carlos Fuentes
character civilization games
The contract between the author and the reader is a game. And the game . . . is one of the greatest invetions of Western civilization: the game of telling stories, inventing characters, and creating the imaginary paradise of the individual, from whence no one can be expelled because, in a novel, no one owns the truth and everyone has the right to be heard and understood.
character warrior men
Malicious acts are performed by people for personal gain … Sorcerers, though, have an ulterior purpose for their acts, which has nothing to do with personal gain. The fact that they enjoy their acts does not count as gain. Rather, it is a condition of their character. The average man acts only if there is a chance for profit. Warriors say they act not for profit but for the spirit. Carlos Castaneda
character differences faces
There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face. Carl Barks
character clinton
Religion is one of the fundaments of Hillary Clinton's character and politics. Carl Bernstein
character simple profound
A great part of its [higher arithmetic] theories derives an additional charm from the peculiarity that important propositions, with the impress of simplicity on them, are often easily discovered by induction, and yet are of so profound a character that we cannot find the demonstrations till after many vain attempts; and even then, when we do succeed, it is often by some tedious and artificial process, while the simple methods may long remain concealed. Carl Friedrich Gauss
character eye vegetables
Death and resurrection are what the story is about and had we but eyes to see it, this has been hinted on every page, met us, in some disguise, at every turn, and even been muttered in conversations between such minor characters (if they are minor characters) as the vegetables. C. S. Lewis
character play plot
But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.
describing people physical somebody
I think you can do a lot, like describing people with their physical characteristics, things like that, but to me, I've always found it to be a much more informative question to ask somebody what they read. Gabrielle Zevin
describing forget people picture talk work
A painting of a person can be descriptive, but for me it's about all the things that make up a picture - the feelings, the brushstrokes - more than describing somebody. People latch on to the personalities when they talk about my work and forget the other parts. Elizabeth Peyton
describing poetry prefer
I don't like the word 'poetry,' and I don't like poetry readings, and I usually don't like poets. I would much prefer describing myself and what I do as: I'm kind of a curator, and I'm kind of a night-owl reporter. Tom Waits
describing music time
I have a very difficult time describing my music. Les Claypool
describing historical rushes second though zealand
My second novel, 'The Luminaries,' is set in the New Zealand gold rushes of the 1860s, though it's not really a historical novel in the conventional sense. So far, I've been describing it as 'an astrological murder mystery.' Eleanor Catton
describing happy talent
Cautiously optimistic, that's how I'm describing this year's teams. I'm happy with the talent we have. Mark Elliott
describing president vice
I have been describing him as Cheney's Cheney. He does for the vice president what the vice president does for the president. Mary Matalin
describing draw human largely life personal separate tend writers
Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories. Jeffery Deaver
describing drowning far giving kinda middle ocean passive somewhere understand
Describing passive violence in this culture is kinda like someone who is drowning in the middle of the ocean giving you the low-down on water. The only way you can really understand passive violence is by going somewhere far, far away from phones, news, TV, the Internet. Inga Muscio
my-own jane
You, Jane, I must have you for my own--entirely my own. Charlotte Bronte
my-own left
I don't like being left to my own thoughts. David Sedaris
my-own
I am often the brunt of my own humor. Charles R. Swindoll
my-own my-own-happiness
I have to find a place for my own. I have to search for my own happiness. Ai Weiwei
my-own
For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words, with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it. Edgar Allan Poe
my-own verses
I wrote my own verses. Anything I did, I wrote myself. Brandy Norwood
my-own
I became my own only when I gave myself to Another.
my-own
I just like doing things from my own head. Andrea Arnold
my-own limitation
I'm not good with limitations. I tend to like to find my own. Leonor Varela