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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.
taught lord teach
Do not begin to teach others until the Lord has taught you. Charles Spurgeon
taught-us common-sense culture
The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens. Alan Watts
taught expect-nothing endeavor
Life has not taught me to expect nothing, but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God. Alan Paton
taught baha young
When I was young, I used to go to Baha'i camp, and they taught me a lot about the equality of religions. Cass McCombs
taught-us people swim
I'm glad Hurricane Katrina happened. It taught us an important lesson: black people can't swim. Carlos Mencia
taught forgotten knows
What I have been taught, I have forgotten; what I know, I have guessed. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
taught-us parent hopeful
My parents, who grew up in terror and dealt with segregation and humiliation, nonetheless taught us to be hopeful and open and loving and not hateful toward anyone. Bryan Stevenson
taught caught rhythm
I, who thought to sink, was caught up into love, and taught the whole of life in a new rhythm. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
taught pounds wit
An ounce of wit that is bought, Is worth a pound that is taught. Benjamin Franklin
scratches building jokes
A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap. Kurt Vonnegut
scratches hours program
It's incredibly hard to program a network from scratch for 24 hours. Carson Kressley
scratches crafts succeed
If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new. Ben Jonson
scratches needs bigs
I love to act. I need to act. It's the big itch I need to scratch. Christopher Meloni
scratches arms nails
I'll take a rusty nail and scratch your initials on my arm. Tom Waits
scratches starting seasons
Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again. Usain Bolt
scratches fortunate
Ive been fortunate to come on places where the question isnt why did I do it? The question to me is always, why didnt anybody else do it before me? Those are the ones that I scratch my head about. Todd McFarlane
scratches peasants
Scratch a Russian, and you'll find a peasant. Milla Jovovich
scratches adaptation adaptability
One learns to itch where one can scratch. Ernest Bramah