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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.
hobbies physics persons
Physics is a hobby of mine, as much as a person of limited intelligence can understand physics. Arthur D. Levinson
hobbies
My hobby is my work. I love it so much, it is not work. Dick Vermeil
hobbies ifs sells
If you can't sell your product, it's not a product-it's a hobby. Jason Calacanis
hobbies horse possible
I have enough hobbies to keep me busy. It's possible that I will look for a new sport -- like, perhaps, horse riding. F. Schumacher
hobbies vocation
My hobbies just sort of gradually became my vocation. Al Yankovic
hobbies i-can
I can elect something I love and absorb myself in it. Anais Nin
hobbies tire
A hobbyhorse can be a tiring ride for nonenthusiasts. Anne Stevenson
hobbies misguided steadfast
Disciples who are steadfast and immovable do not become fanatics or extremists, are not overzealous, and are not preoccupied with misguided gospel hobbies. David A. Bednar
hobbies mountaineering huge
Mountaineering has always been a huge hobby of mine. Andy Serkis