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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.
texture
I love playing with words and texture. Binyavanga Wainaina
texture sound elements
What I'm dealing with is sound. I don't pretend to be dealing with music. I'm just dealing with sound elements, textures and sounds. Bill Laswell
texture moral reason
I'm quite squeamish, really. I'm philistine and unsophisticated - not because of my great discerning palate but other reasons. Some are moral grounds, some texture. Ricky Gervais
texture moments intensity
The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident. Dylan Thomas
texture painting novel
Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing. Joan Didion
texture mortar processors
Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast. Mario Batali
texture
The texture of experience is prior to everything else. Willem de Kooning
texture belief logic
Implication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it. Willard Van Orman Quine
trends revolutionary periods
It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear. C. L. R. James
trends different timeless
When looking at trends I always ask myself basic and timeless questions about business, and the one I seem to always come back to is, 'How is this different than anything else in the marketplace?' Daymond John
trends energy environment
On the whole, the evidence indicates that model trends in the troposphere are very likely inconsistent with observations... David Douglass
trends today tomorrow
Today's trend ends up in tomorrow's landfill. David Amram
trends small-parts security
A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come from a much larger trend. Bruce Sterling
trends
I don't follow waves or trends or emotions. will.i.am
trends
I've never been so on trend in my entire life. Jane Krakowski
trends stage get-away
The trend now is to get away from stage bound sitcoms. Dylan Moran
trends my-own
I have a trend of my own. Andrei Platonov