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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. Charles de Lint
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. Charles de Lint
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. Charles de Lint
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? Charles de Lint
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. Charles Dickens
book night men
Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking. Charles Dickens
book reading writing
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. Charles Dickens
air long joy
He was consious of a thousand odours floating in the air, each one connected with a thousand thoughts, and hopes, and joys, and cares, long, long, forgotten. Charles Dickens
air house honor
Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument. Charles Caleb Colton
air might physicians
Some persons will tell you, with an air of the miraculous, that they recovered although they were given over; whereas they might with more reason have said, they recovered because they were given over. Charles Caleb Colton
air should vendetta
Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it. Alan Moore
air sky needs
Lots of cosy sky That God and I can share. I need air. I need air. Alan Jay Lerner
air actors eras
Certainly the movies were always in the air for me. I come from the era when actors thought it was a big deal to be in the movies. Al Pacino
airport commercial deadline open remain service view
We want to see the airport remain open to commercial service. We view this deadline (Tuesday) ... as a deadline after which we will re-evaluate where the airport stands. Kathleen Bergen
airplane thinking artist
Learning to fly an airplane taught me a way of thinking, an approach to problem-solving that was applicable and effective. Pilots are very methodical and meticulous, and artists tend not to be. Chris Carter
airports percent
Out of all the airports that are out there only about 5 percent have commercial service. Chris Brown
intellectual weakness mysterious
Precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity as to those mysterious powers assumed by others. Charles Caleb Colton
intellectual widows want
These esoteric, intellectual debates-I want them to come to New Jersey and sit across from the widows and the orphans and have that conversation, Chris Christie
intellectual age hussain
In a distant age and climate, the tragic scene of the death of Hosein will awaken the sympathy of the coldest reader. Edward Gibbon
intellectual politics moral
We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life - physical, intellectual, and moral life. Frederic Bastiat
intellectual labels misunderstanding
To label me an intellectual is a misunderstanding of what that is. Dick Cavett
intellectual might persuading
It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one! Edwin Land
intellectual creationism pernicious
Creationism, perhaps the most pernicious of the intellectual perversions now afflicting the American public. Arthur C. Clarke
intellectual definitions my-favorite
My favorite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence'. Arthur C. Clarke
intellectual progress adequate
Collective wisdom, alas, is no adequate substitute for the intelligence of individuals. Individuals who opposed received opinions have been the source of all progress, both moral and intellectual. They have been unpopular, as was natural. Bertrand Russell