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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.
looks world eternity
He that will often put eternity and the world before him, and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them, will find that the more often he contemplates them, the former will grow greater, and the latter less.
looks world way
Secularism teaches us that we ought to look to this world. Christianity teaches us that the best way to prepare for this world is to be fully prepared for the next. Charles Spurgeon
looks may helping
The preacher's work is to throw sinners down into utter helplessness that they may be compelled to look up to Him Who alone can help them.
looks sin
He who looks sinward has his back to God-he who looks Godward has his back to sin.
looks worship ifs
Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.
looks world environment
Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it. Alan Watts
looks plant gardener
A good gardener looks at every plant every day. Alan Chadwick
looks want mental-health
I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it's effect on one's mental health. Alan Ball
looks taste devils-advocate
Look, but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, but don't swallow. Al Pacino
fiction flash
I don't do flash fiction. Charles Stross
fiction science-fiction conventions
I'd never been to a science-fiction convention until I became a professional writer. China Mieville
fiction geek fantasy
I'm a science fiction and fantasy geek.
fiction fantasy weirdness
One of the things that I love so much about fantasy and science fiction is that the weirdness that it creates is always at its best completely its own end and also metaphorically and symbolically laden.
fiction type inferiors
There are no inferior types of fiction, only inferior practitioners of them. David Morrell
fiction plausible
Implausible truth can serve one better than plausible fiction David Mitchell
fiction different process
Fiction and nonfiction, for me, involve very different processes. Chad Harbach
fiction-stories world common
What do my science fiction stories have in common with pornography? Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world, I'm told. Kurt Vonnegut
fiction narrative moments
Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving towards the watcher on the shore. Edith Wharton