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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.
theme fascinated
Obviously death is a theme I'm fascinated by. Alan Ball
theme tonight
Many things done tonight come from the theme of renewal. John Kearns
theme type relaxed
The basic theme of the kapha metabolic type is relaxed. Deepak Chopra
theme
Just like a pendulum, ... the current-account theme is back in the market.
theme again-and-again
Themes recur again and again in my work. Eve Arnold
theme fraud felt
I did a cover of the James Bond theme, and I felt like such a fraud, because the original is so good. Moby
theme painter sculptors
This theme of bigness — all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since. Michael Heizer
theme repetition autobiography
The theme of my autobiography could only be repetition. Mason Cooley
theme novel great-novels
They say great themes make great novels John O'Hara
melody stills
I still have a very nonintellectual, nonjudgmental relationship with melody and the music as I hear it all in my head. Ariel Pink
melody sad
'Dawn (Go Away)' is a sad lyric, but the melody is so happy and fun. Erich Bergen
melody
[The lyrics and melody] usually come a little simultaneously, but I would say the lyrics are first; usually I have the idea for a story in my head, or few lines. Billy Bob Thornton
melody
A melody is not merely something you can hum. Aaron Copland
melody
With a good melody... music gets me through everything. Drake Bell
melody moves music reggae
Music is creation. In reggae the lyric, the music itself, arrangement, that vibe, such melody - everything within the music moves the people, understand? Burning Spear
melody rhythms text
But other than that, I go from the text and the rhythms of the words. The melody comes from that,
melody music sticks
Melody is an important part of all the music I've written. I think that's why it has been so successful. It's music that sticks in your head. Chuck D.
melody
I write while I'm walking, on little scraps of paper. If I have a melody going, I can feel it for days. Juan Felipe Herrera