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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
flirting reality ordinary
Flirting I take to be the excitement of love, without its reality, and without its ordinary result in marriage. Anthony Trollope
flirting envy and-love
Flirtation envies Love, and Love envies Flirtation. Carolyn Wells
flirting young existence
There are few young women in existence who have not the power of fascinating, if they choose to exert it. Benjamin Disraeli
flirting play ideas
Once I started working with generative music in the 1970s, I was flirting with ideas of making a kind of endless music - not like a record that you'd put on, which would play for a while and finish. Brian Eno
flirting people despair
When people flirt with despair about the future, they are less likely to take the actions necessary to safeguard it, focusing instead on the short-term. Al Gore
flirting light behaviour
She had never been a proficient flirt. Her spasms of kittenish behaviour were graceless and inept, like normal conversation on roller skates. but the combination of the retsina and sun made Emma feel sentimental and light-headed. She reached for her roller skates. David Nicholls
flirting bishops
How can a bishop marry? How can he flirt? The most he can say is "I will see you in the vestry after service." Sydney Smith
flirting thinking voice
Before I could stop myself, I punched his arm. “Careful,” he said in a low voice. “They might think we’re flirting. Becca Fitzpatrick
flirting want menus
I’m going to grab a cheeseburger,” I told Patch. “Want anything?” “Nothing on the menu.” I smiled. “Why, Patch, are you flirting with me? Becca Fitzpatrick
two enemy lasts
There are two sorts of pity: one is a balm and the other a poison; the first is realized by our friends, the last by our enemies. Charles Sumner
two miracle normal
In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural. Charles Edison
two religion plunder
There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own. Charles Caleb Colton
two debt possession
There are two things that bestow consequence; great possession, or great debts. Charles Caleb Colton
two firsts quarrels
Two things, well considered, would prevent many quarrels: first, to have it well ascertained whether we are not disputing about terms, rather than things; and, secondly, to examine whether that on which we differ is worth contending about. Charles Caleb Colton
two iron gold
There are two metals, one of which is omnipotent in the cabinet, and the other in the camp--gold and iron. He that knows how to apply them both may indeed attain the highest station. Charles Caleb Colton
two together mistress
If often happens too, both in courts and in cabinets, that there are two things going on together,--a main plot and an under-plot; and he that understands only one of them will, in all probability, be the dupe of both. A mistress may rule a monarch, but some obscure favorite may rule the mistress. Charles Caleb Colton
two may acquaintance
Make the most of the day, by determining to spend it on two sorts of acquaintances only--those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something may be learned. Charles Caleb Colton
two people way
There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter. Charles Caleb Colton