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writing hands would-be
It is no worse, because I write of it. It would be no better, if I stopped my most unwilling hand. Nothing can undo it; nothing can make it otherwise than as it was. Charles Dickens
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...
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.
use ham radio
HAM radio is very inexpensive, it is nearly unlimited and free to use. The only limitation is that you can only talk for five minutes to any given person because the station gets out of range within that time. Charles Simonyi
use lord preacher
I know perfectly well that, wherever I go and preach, there are many better preachers ... than I am; all that I can say about it is that the Lord uses me. Charles Spurgeon
use saint sickness
Sickness has frequently been of more use to the saints of God than health has.
use equipment
Audiophiles don't use their equipment to listen to your music. Audiophiles use your music to listen to their equipment. Alan Parsons
use way helping
I'm very interested in the improvisation because one of the things I do is to help train scientists to communicate in a better way and more personal way when they're making a presentation, and I use improvisation to do that. Alan Alda
use tests
God never uses anyone greatly until He tests them deeply. Aiden Wilson Tozer
use ifs who-you-are
If you truly own who you are, no one can use you against you. Chris Colfer
use energy should
We should see money in terms of the expenditure of energy and how we are going to transmute that energy into a proper use. Chogyam Trungpa
use world pay
The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. Chinua Achebe
plot cliche generic
The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find. Ben Stiller
plot shapes divinity
Rashly, And praised be rashness for it--let us know, Our indiscretion sometime serves us well When our deep plots do pall, and that should learn us There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will William Shakespeare
plot hiding subtle
The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer. Billy Wilder
plot lucky
I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me Caroline B. Cooney
plot storytelling shows
Anything that happens on any show is a plot contrivance because that's just storytelling. Bryan Fuller
plot communist buried
Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot. Edgar Bergen
plot reach
They were intercepted before the plot could reach fruition. David Waters
plot steps year
Think about where you want to be in a year or two, then plot out the steps you need to take to get there.
plot three scene
A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization. Ayn Rand