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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.
novels several tv wrote
My first novel, 'You Must be Sisters,' was started in Pakistan. I've wrote several novels and a TV drama set or partly-set there. Deborah Moggach
novelty genius forging-ahead
Only God and some few rare geniuses can keep forging ahead into novelty. Denis Diderot
novels published six until written
I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful. Edmund White
novelty opens stunt
This won't be a novelty stunt where he opens the show up and disappears. Anthony Zuiker
novels time wholly
The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write, so the 'now' with which they begin will be defunct by the time they're finished. Graham Swift
novels people poem straight totally
People are so used to reading novels now, they just read a poem straight through to get the meaning. And that's something totally different from the slow way you read something if it's a tune; which to me a poem has to be. Alice Oswald
novel scotland work
With '44 Scotland Street' I found myself having to work out how a daily novel works, and it is completely different to a conventional novel. Alexander McCall Smith
novelists perhaps
I think I belong to America's last generation of novelists. Novelists will come one by one from now on, not in seeming families, and will perhaps write only one or two novels, and let it go at that. Kurt Vonnegut
novels truth
Many novels and modern publications are corrupters of morals or distorters of truth. Ezra Taft Benson
solitary
Writing is such a solitary existence, and I can only do it late at night. Paul O'Grady
solitary drinkers
Always go to the solitary drinker for the truth! Anita Loos
solitary-life fancy cherish
A solitary life cherishes mere fancies until they become manias. Elizabeth Gaskell
solitary idle
Be not solitary, be not idle Robert Burton
solitary
To love makes one solitary. Virginia Woolf
solitary composition
Composition has almost always been solitary. Wendy Carlos