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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.
play done form
To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play. Alan Watts
play forget notes
You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play!
play who-i-am people
Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play. Alan Rickman
play interesting people
I don't play villains, I play very interesting people
play pursuit said
To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy. Alan Bennett
play scripts film
There is no such thing as a good script, onlya good film, and I'm conscious that my scripts often read better than they play.
play people mouths
I'm not good at precise, coherent argument. But plays are suited to incoherent argument, put into the mouths of fallible people.
play theatre audience
Plays by Alan Ayckbourn have been attracting larger audiences in the regional theatres than those of Shakespeare. Alan Ayckbourn
play propaganda
I really don't like plays or movies that service propaganda. Alan Alda
want herds
I don't want to follow the herd. Alain Robert
want way connections
Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections; so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways. Akhenaton
want directors ifs
If you want to be a great director, be a great screenwriter. Akira Kurosawa
want kind plans
Our plan is to lead the public with new products rather than ask them what kind of products they want, Akio Morita
want needs nevertheless
God doesn't need anything nevertheless He wants worshipers. Aiden Wilson Tozer
want presence-of-god
I want the presence of God Himself, or I don't want anything at all to do with religion... I want all that God has or I don't want any.
want sovereign want-u
The sovereign God wants to be loved for Himself and honoured for Himself, but that is only part of what He wants. The other part is that He wants us to know that when we have Him we have everything - we have all the rest.
want christ should
Our identification with Christ should be that whatever He is we also want to become.
want indispensable
I want to be in a place where I have to have God in everything I do . . . where God is indispensable to me.