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grief writing suffering
I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It needs not a map, but a history, and if I don't stop writing that history at some quite arbitrary point, there's no reason why I should ever stop. C. S. Lewis
grief want way
I like pubs too, but it's hard for me to go and get proper bladdered in the way I used to. I don't want to moan about being recognised but I do get a bit of grief sometimes. Alan Davies
grief sorrow world
Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,--which taste cannot tolerate,--which ridicule will seize. Jane Austen
grief emotion sometimes
The thing about grief is that it's a roller coaster - it's up, it's down. The emotions sometimes take over. Brent Sexton
grief people empathy
After the Ankara bombings on October 10, people were asked to hold a minute of silence, but many refused. Our society can't even unite in grief to honor the victims. We've lost our empathy. That's maybe the worst. Elif Safak
grief expecting least-expecting
Grief jumps out at you when you're least expecting it. Dominic Cooper
grief capacity results
There is a point when grief exceeds the human capacity to emote, and as a result one is strangely composed- Abraham Verghese
grief six-months rooms
Grief was like a newborn, and the first three months were hard as hell, but by six months you'd recognized defeat, shifted your life around, and made room for it. Ann Brashares
grief writing want
The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones. Andrea Gibson
writing important scene
I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them. Brandon Sanderson
writing way controversy
There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write. Ben Mezrich
writing reader
The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader. Ben Okri
writing night awake
I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night. Barbara Kingsolver
writing thinking talking
If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two percent magic.
writing perfect
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
writing habit latter
I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter. Barbara Mertz
writing names wave
We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away. Augustus
writing thinking secret
The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work. Augusten Burroughs
wants
Now, I know everyone wants to see turtles. What else? Lyle Thomas
wanting
I've been wanting him for a long time. Now that I've got him, I can't take him off the court. Pat Riley
want humans seems
At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have. For some, this is power. For me, it is peace.
want living-things
Nothing can stop a living thing that wants to be free Aravind Adiga
want extraordinary-life extraordinary
Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life.
want aging castro
I just don't want to die the same day Castro dies Art Buchwald
want nervous breakdown
A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.
want reverence feels
It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own. Ayn Rand
want knows
You dont know someone until you know what they want. Brad Pitt