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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.
daughters few leading men rich wives women
With few exceptions, the leading women in philanthropy, notably Melinda Gates, are the wives or daughters of rich and powerful men. Kavita Ramdas
daughters distant foreign lands lives people sending sons transform trying
Is it true that the American people are war-weary? Absolutely. We are tired of sending our sons and daughters to distant lands year after year after year, to give their lives trying to transform foreign nations. Ted Cruz
daughters involved sports volunteers
She volunteers all the time. Even sports her daughters are not involved in, she's the first to help. Ben Steele
daughters efforts family husband meet soon wants
She told me that she would like to meet with her family as soon as possible. She wants us to make efforts so that she can meet with her husband and daughters in Japan, Shinzo Abe
daughters flea front gone hit hometown market porch saying talking
I would see her and her daughters on the front porch and in the back yard. I was shocked. I was just talking to her. We had gone to the Hometown Flea Market and when we got back everyone was saying your neighbor's dead. It was like being hit by a hammer.
daughters field great remember trying wife
What do I remember the very most? Trying to find my wife and daughters in the melee on the field after the game, and how great it was when I did find them.
daughters decades ironically music next pastry positively science taste trends
I am a futurist, projecting trends in science into the next decades and century, but ironically my two daughters - one is a neuroscientist and the other is a pastry chef - tell me that my taste in music is positively prehistoric. Michio Kaku
daughters
My wife, my granddaughters and my daughters - they really didn't like the idea of me going down there. But you've got to do what you've got to do.
daughters
while you are learning, my daughters will suffer.
life-is trouble permanent
Nothing in life is permanent, not even one's troubles. Charlie Chaplin
life intelligent men
Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.
life sea sardines
So when I cease to be I want to go back...to the sea! Oh for the life of a sardine! That is the life for me!
life smile cheer-up
You'll find that life is still worthwhile, if you just smile.
life good-morning make-others-happy
Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But life salutes you when you make other happy.
life laughter long
Life is laughter when seen in a long shot, but it is a tragedy when seen in a close-up.
life simple journey
Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough. Charles Dudley Warner
life political politics
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. Charles de Gaulle
life ideas appreciate
We end up stumbling our way through the forest, never seeing all the unexpected and wonderful possibilities and potentials because we're looking for the idea of a tree, instead of appreciating the actual trees in front of us.
mothers-day mom growing-up
I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me. Antonio Villaraigosa
mothers-day mom motherhood
No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
mothers-day mom mother
I really learned it all from mothers. Benjamin Spock
mothers-day mean motherhood
A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother. Bob Hope
mothers-day angel heaven
In the Heaven's above, the angels, whispering to one another, can find, among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of 'Mother. Edgar Allan Poe
mothers-day mean world
MOTHER (a word that means the world to me) Eddy Arnold
mothers-day mom daughter
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. Barbara Kingsolver
mothers-day girl mom
I grew up in a makeup chair, to see! the women around me getting ready was so aspirational, It is about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a vanity table. Drew Barrymore
mothers-day wall fists
Right at the end of the big wall of vibrators, $29.95, big rubber fist. Thirty bucks! Just in time for mothers day. Doug Stanhope
talking words-of-wisdom sitting
When I have heard him talking to Papa during the sittings for the picture, I have sat wondering whether it could be that he has no belief in anybody else, because he has no belief in himself.
talking judging mind
It has been well observed that the tongue discovers the state of the mind no less than that of the body; but in either case, before the philosopher or the physician can judge, the patient must open his mouth. Charles Caleb Colton
talking world human-nature
There are prating coxcombs in the world who would rather talk than listen, although Shakespeare himself were the orator, and human nature the theme!
talking people realizing
People often say to me, 'I understand what you are talking about intellectually, but I don't really feel it, I don't realize it,' and I am apt to reply, 'I wonder whether you do understand it intellectually, because if you did you would also feel it.' Alan Watts
talking listening ordinary
We have somehow conned ourselves into the notion that this moment is ordinary. This now moment, in which I'm talking and you're listening, is eternity.
talking topics los-angeles
If you spend any time in Los Angeles, there's only one topic of conversation. Alan Rickman
talking bored actors
What is it about actors? God knows I get bored with actors talking about themselves.
talking people signing
I genuinely like the people I meet at signings or the bits of public talking that I do. Alan Moore
talking today economy
I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about. Alan Greenspan
together cheese kind
One can unite the French only under the threat of danger. One cannot simply bring together a nation that produces 265 kinds of cheese.
together stories braids
It's all those stories and how they braid together that tells us who and what and where we are
together tools use
Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.
together ships speed
God works all things together for your good. If the waves roll against you, it only speeds your ship towards the port Charles Spurgeon
together world letters
...mysticism and empiricism go together in opposition to scholasticism...they base themselves on the non-linear world of experience rather than the linear world of letters.
together buffets throwing
Stop throwing us all together like some sort of Puerto Ricaminican Tex-Mex buffet. Al Madrigal
together too-much sides
When you put relative and absolute truth together and they become one unit, it becomes possible to make things workable. You are not too much on the side of absolute truth, or you would become too theoretical. You are not too much on the side of relative truth, or you would become too precise. When you put them together, you realize that there is no problem. Chogyam Trungpa
together pieces narrative
When I worked with Woody Allen, I only got the parts of the script that I was in. I was able to piece together the narrative from that, but I remember being quite excited to watch the movie - the movie that I was in but didn't know what happened in, like, 65 percent of. Chiwetel Ejiofor
together energy making-changes
We are one energy. Together we can make a change. David Guetta