![I would say that Edgar Allan Poe, [Georges] Perec, Thomas Pynchon, and [Jorge Luis] Borges are all boy-writers. These are writers who take... a kind of demonic joy in writing.](/assets/img/quote-photos/i-would-say-that-edgar-allan-poe-georges-perec-thomas-pynchon-and-jorge-lui.jpg)
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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.
boys thinking body
Molly: So how do you think of Bryce Hamilton crowd so far? Boys hot enough for you? Bethany: I wouldn't say hot. Most of them seem to have a normal body temperature. Alexandra Adornetto
boys christmas four home johnson lyndon presidency row shifted vietnam
Lyndon B. Johnson thought he'd have the boys home from Vietnam by Christmas - for four Christmases in a row (he never shifted course, and lost his presidency for it). Rick Perlstein
boys lived sixth suddenly suppose till
I suppose I've always lived in my own head. I didn't discover boys till sixth form. Then suddenly it was, 'Oh! Boys!' Malorie Blackman
boys correct good obviously winning
Man, I didn't want to see it when we're up 21-nothing. But, we got something done when it counted. We've obviously got to correct a lot of mistakes, but the boys feel good about winning right now. Mark Hummel
boys came coach daughters felt football helps high needed reasons school stan three
Man, I always felt like high school football was where I needed to be. Having three boys helps that decision. Here at Calvary, I know I can have them in school with me and coach them when they're older. It's one of the reasons I came to Calvary. Stan is the same way. He's got daughters there. Doug Pederson
boys field great last left ready time
Let's get those left-field bleacher boys ready to go. I had a great time in right last year, but left field is where it's always been. Nick Swisher
boys line second
Second place is on the line here, boys! Gerry Fleming
boys cricket fire forces opened playing security unprovoked
Security forces opened unprovoked fire on boys who were playing cricket in a field.
boys great men playing roles start time until whereas women younger
Men are boys for such a long time and really don't start getting the great roles until they're in their mid-thirties. But then they've got a long time to do them, whereas for women, it's all about playing younger and younger and younger. Cate Blanchett
joy desire ifs
If you truly desire happiness, seek and learn how to serve. Albert Schweitzer
joy exaltation events
There is within each of us a modulation, an inner exaltation, which lifts us above the buffetings with which events assail us. Likewise, it lifts us above dependence upon the gifts of events for our joy.
joy madam united work
Madam Ambassador, it's been a joy to work with you while you were at the United Nations.
joyous work
Me and Joyous always work really well together. We can just read each other.
joy honor pathways
Obedience to the will of God is the pathway to perpetual honor and everlasting joy.
joy
The more things that can bring you joy in life, the better Dennis Prager
joy unattractive conventionality
The conventionality of the English is something I find unattractive - the whole lack of joy in the physical. Denholm Elliott
joy dying fear-of-dying
Joy of living is sustainable; fear of dying is not. Dean Ornish
joy draws unfathomable
Joy draws its nourishment from quietness and from the unfathomable. Dietrich Bonhoeffer