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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.
stories wonderful marley
Marley was dead, to begin with ... This must be distintly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate.
stories ends middle
The point about a great story is that it's got a beginning, a middle and end. Alan Rickman
stories needs thanks
It is an ancient need to be told stories. But the story needs a great storyteller. Thanks for all of it, Jo.
stories left
I like it when stories are left open.
stories imaginary
This is an IMAGINARY STORY...aren't they all? Alan Moore
stories
Everybody has their story to tell.
stories storytelling process
I really love storytelling, and I love the stories as they reveal themselves. It's an incredibly nourishing process; it's probably the closest I come to having a religion. Alan Ball
stories
Our stories are the tellers of us. Chris Cleave
stories
We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.
narrative information different
The comics medium has some unusual features that do make it very different, in that it's combining a verbal narrative with a visual one that allows for much richer possibilities of transmitting information.
narrative nonfiction labels
Nonfiction, qua label, is nothing more or less than a very flexible (easily breakable) frame that allows you to pull the thing away from narrative and toward contemplation, which is all I've ever wanted. David Shields
narrative plot resolution
Resolution and conclusion are inherent in a plot-driven narrative.
narrative allies honest
I'm not interested in collage as the refuge of the composition-ally disabled. I'm interested in collage as (to be honest) an evolution beyond narrative.
narrative
I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it. Djuna Barnes
narrative shows
My shows are not narratives. Brian Eno
narrative rock-n-roll tradition
I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition. Bruce Springsteen
narrative
Narrative is one of the best intoxicants or tranquilisers. A. S. Byatt
narrative adhesive film
Music is the subliminal connecting adhesive in film, or at least in narrative feature films. Carter Burwell