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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.
reputation cursed
Cursed be he that scalps the reputation of the dead. Chief Joseph
reputation loser lost
You have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser. William Shakespeare
reputation repetition
Repetition makes reputation. Elizabeth Arden
reputation uncertain tenure
The tenure of a literary reputation is the most uncertain and fluctuating of all. Charles Dudley Warner
reputation worldly-wisdom paid
Work is the price which is paid for reputation. Baltasar Gracian
reputation evolve shows
I get to live down my reputation for being cantankerous if I slowly evolve towards being a really good live show. Ariel Pink
reputation talent concealed
Concealed talent brings no reputation. Desiderius Erasmus
reputation fame charm
The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. Blaise Pascal
reputation shame glory
Avoid shame, but do not seek glory; nothing so expensive as glory. Sydney Smith
discrepancies-between discrepancies
Have no discrepancy between what you say, what you are and what you do. Dalai Lama
discrepancies-between unhappy-childhood preparation
(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours. Rudyard Kipling