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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.
easier odd people pleasant prepare rattling seemed sights smells travels
Most people prepare for travels by reading about their destination; it always seemed an odd approach to me. I find it much easier and more pleasant to focus with the sights and smells of a place rattling around in my mind. Michael Specter
easier seeing single
We are seeing applications merged into a single device. They are getting easier to use and more streamlined. Laura Marriott
easier extra pass stretch struggled
We struggled at times scoring. We made that extra pass down the stretch for easier shots.
easier images people talk web
We're in a do-it-yourself mega-trend where people can do it themselves. It's so much easier to write to the Web, talk to the Web and put images on the Web.
easier shows ifs
It's easier to cancel a show if it's expensive. Louis C. K.
easier
We have to get better at it. That's one are where we really, really have to get better. Not enough desperation. Once we get that we'll make it a lot easier on ourselves. Mark Recchi
easier free hard paid whenever
Whenever you have a five-man that makes free throws, it makes it a lot easier because he's going to get fouled the most. He's been working hard and it's paid off for him. Brad Soderberg
easier extra motivation next opponents time
We want opponents to know we are going to put up a fight. Unfortunately, we made it a little easier for Maine. We should have extra motivation the next time out.
easier fix good hated positive swing though
We would've hated going into the bye at 4-4, ... It's a big swing for us, even though it's only one game. We had some good things out there, but there are still things that need to be fixed. It's easier to go back and fix them on a positive note, going into the bye with a win. Greg Ellis
novelty impress please
Novelties please less than they impress.
novel mediums prose
My medium is prose, not the novel. David Shields
novel
For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed. David Mitchell
novelists novel livelihood
I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.
novel
I used to read only fiction. Now I don't read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison novel. David Quammen
novel could-have-been has-beens
History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been. Edmond de Goncourt
novelty please accounts
Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account. David Hume
novel knows
When you decide to adapt some Russian novel, it's like everyone knows about it but nobody has read it. Audrey Tautou
novel monologues i-can
This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue. Carol Shields