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writing play important
Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say. Robert Creeley
writing people trying
Don't try to write what other people are writing - write what is true to you. Richard Paul Evans
writing suffering littles
A little love has made me willingly study, preach, write, and even suffer... Richard Baxter
writing emotional rocks
Packs a Huge Emotional Punch! Graceful Writing, Great Acting, Exquisite Direction, Suspense, Profound Subject Matter and It Rocks! Rex Reed
writing race justice
It is a great pity that every human being does not, at an early stage of his life, have to write a historical work. He would then realize that the human race is in quite a jam about truth. Rebecca West
writing fiction half
No one can write a best-seller by taking thought. The slightest touch of insincerity blurs its appeal. The writer who keeps his tongue in his cheek, who knows that he is writing for fools and that, therefore, he had better write like a fool, makes a respectable living out of serials and novelettes; but he will never make the vast, the blaring, half a million success. That comes of blended sincerity and vitality.
writing thinking hands
I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing.
writing known knows
I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.
writing loss world
It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.
fiction larger-than-life life-is
Larger than life is your fiction in a universe made up of one. Sarah McLachlan
fiction principles wonder
Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail. Rudy Rucker
fiction science-fiction
Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive. Ursula K. Le Guin
fiction good imagine writer
Part of being a fiction writer is being able to imagine how someone else is thinking and feeling. I think I've always been good at that. Andrew Clements
fiction good muscle narrative principle punch root underlying
I just really like the verve and muscle of good crime fiction, the narrative punch of it. The underlying principle of good crime fiction is an insistence on a kind of root democracy. I've always responded to that notion. Daniel Woodrell
fiction imagined period science thrillers
I'm more into thrillers than horrors. I also have a thing for period pieces. Science fiction to me is also a period piece. It's an imagined period. Lexa Doig
fiction science-fiction science-love
I love science fiction. Moon Bloodgood
fiction debt ceilings
It is simply science fiction fantasy to say that, if you do not raise the debt ceiling, that everything is going to collapse. Mike Lee
fiction alive periods
Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period. Khaled Hosseini
common learners single today
I would surmise that the single most common characteristic of learners today is being time-constrained. Diana Oblinger
common disease following infectious seen
What we've seen is what we would expect. Infectious disease outbreaks are not common following hurricanes.
common deal great
have a great deal in common and a lot to discuss. John Prescott
common deterrent gets longer
I think it's common sense to say that the longer away from a crime it gets prosecuted, the less deterrent effect there is.
common-humanity cities differences
That may sound a big vague, but what has struck me in city after city is that despite our differences and diversity, there's a common humanity we all share. In many ways we're all searching and longing for the same things... Rob Bell
common investment very-good
We had a very good situation in 2005. The common budget had a volume of 80 billion dollars per year. Thousands of jobs were created in Germany by Russian investments. At the same time, a large number of German companies invested in Russia. There were countless cultural and social contacts. Vladimir Putin
common-sense may sound
We may always depend on it that algebra, which cannot be translated into good English and sound common sense, is bad algebra. William Kingdon Clifford
common cases company
The most common post YC failure case for the companies we fund, is they're incredibly focussed during YC on their company... and after they start doing a lot of other things. They advise companies, they go to conferences, whatever. Sam Altman
common-sense prejudice common
The rule for traveling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind. William Hazlitt