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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.
want fads actors
Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage. Charlie Chaplin
want despotism shots
Have them all shot. I don't want any of my workers dissatisfied.
want please workhouses
Please, sir, I want some more.
want faces misery
I want to escape from myself. For when I do start up and stare myself seedily in the face, as happens to be my case at present, my blankness is inconceivable--indescribable--my misery amazing.
want waste firsts
Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste. Charles Spurgeon
want revival reverence
If we want revivals, we must revive our reverence for the Word of God.
want walks
I want to walk through life. Alanis Morissette
want wake-up illusion
If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up. Alan Watts
want doe angle
I approach every part I'm asked to do and decide to do from exactly the same angle: who is this person, what does he want, how does he attempt to get it, and what happens to him when he doesn't get it, or if he does? Alan Rickman
obscure words
Words, like glasses, obscure everything which they do not make clear. Joseph Joubert
obscure
I am never needlessly obscure I am needfully obscure, when I am obscure. Donald Barthelme
obscure feels
I've always liked being relatively obscure. I feel that's where I belong, that's where my work belongs. Don DeLillo
obscure headlines reader
Readers travel so fast they don't stop to decipher the meaning of obscure headlines. David Ogilvy
obscure pursuit trivial twenty
Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer. Ted Cruz
obscure palpable uncouth
Through the palpable obscure find out / His uncouth way. John Milton
obscure strive miscellaneous
I strive to be brief, and become obscure. Horace
obscure brevity
Aiming at brevity, I become obscure.
obscure explanation asks
To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure. Maurice Merleau-Ponty