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writing thinking practice
There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or the other. Charles Caleb Colton
writing justice add
Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
writing first-love should-have
Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss. Charles Dickens
writing names forgiving
Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her.
writing support events
Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.
writing stories want
Us writers all like each other and want to write stories with each other; we're having a good time. Charles Soule
writing years long
If I write too much of anything for too long, I burn out on it. So it helps to vary my output from year to year. Charles Stross
writing hints facts
If I wanted to be in movies, I'd have gone into scriptwriting: the fact that I write novels should be a big hint about what I prefer to do!
writing ideas stories
Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal.
editors two people
There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as "we"; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm. Bill Nye
editors worry goal
Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
editors use paper
Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper Bill Walsh
editors expectations winner
My guess is that the editor [Cincinnati Post] wanted his own Jeff MacNelly (a Pulitzer winner at 24), and I didn't live up to his expectations. My Cincinnati days were pretty Kafkaesque. Bill Watterson
editors understanding different
I'm sure I cause just as much consternation for editors as any other actor, but it definitely makes me feel more comfortable understanding how and why all the different camera setups exist. Ed Helms
editors newspapers show-me
Show me a contented newspaper editor and I will show you a bad newspaper. Arthur Christiansen
editors magazines offended
Whatever I wrote was heretical. It offended the editors of the women's magazines. Betty Friedan
editors names given
Deep Throat was a very unfortunate name given to the source by the managing editor of The Washington Post. Bob Woodward
editors stories would-be
It would be absurd for me or any other editor to review the authenticity or accuracy of stories that are nominated for prizes.
suggestions compromise never-compromise
The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising. Arthur Bloch
suggestions ignored can-do
I am looking for suggestions on what we can do about extremists within our own society. They cannot be ignored. Tony Campolo
suggestions arguing married
Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women. Mark Twain
suggestions liberalism ten-commandments
If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Suggestions. Malcolm Bradbury
suggestions moses sinai
What Moses brought down from Mt. Sinai were not the Ten Suggestions, they are Commandments. Are, not were. Ted Koppel