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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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
book night men
Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking.
book reading writing
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
character ideas clothes
I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born. Charlie Chaplin
character tramps figures
My character of the Tramp, the millions of workers symbolized in that one figure.
character men law
By the Law of Slavery, man, created in the image of God, is divested of the human character, and declared to be a mere chattel. Charles Sumner
character men realizing
Difficulty attracts the man of character because it is in embracing it that he realizes himself Charles de Gaulle
character adversity responsibility
Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the bitter joy of responsibility.
character hard-times virtue
Character is the virtue of hard times.
character normal dysfunctional-family
Well, while I didn't have the more extreme experiences of some of my characters, I didn't exactly come from the most normal of households. Or rather, it was normal, in that dysfunctional families appear to be the norm.
character attention elements
When one of my characters becomes aware of a magical element, it might be because the world is wider than we assume it to be, but it might also be a reminder to pay attention to what is here already, hidden only because it's been forgotten.
character interesting grind
The cramped monotony of my existence grinds me away by the grain.
alive did-you-know knows
How did you know you're alive, unless you'd once been dead? Alan Watts
alive theater streets
I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets. Al Pacino
alive way directors
Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
alive said
No one said living isn't a pretty chancy business, Sibyl. No one gets out of here alive. Chris Bohjalian
alive theater audience
I love the theater because the theater is alive. The audience is right there. Chita Rivera
alive
As for you, you are alive. But it's not the same as living. Diane Setterfield
alive someday human-condition
The Human Condition being, basically, that we’re alive and have access to beauty, can even erratically create it, but will someday be dead and will not. Chad Harbach
alive concern family kids rising share tuition
I now have two kids of my own in college, so I know how important it is that we keep the dream alive for every family and I share the concern about rising tuition costs. Mark Kennedy
alive country fairly glass movement talk term time
When you talk about the glass movement in this country it's actually fairly young and it's at a time when Chihuly and the other forefathers if you want to use that term are still alive and working. Joanna Sikes