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american-novelist fiction truth
Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense. Leo Rosten
american-novelist blocked happened ice period purple storm wrote
What happened was that after I wrote The Ice Storm I had a period where I was blocked for a little bit, before I wrote Purple America. Rick Moody
american-novelist dramatic offer stories
What does it feel like to be a parent? What does it feel like to be a child? And that's what stories do. They bring you there. They offer a dramatic explanation, which is always different from an expository explanation. Richard Russo
american-novelist buy instant last lose return wrong
On the one hand, shopping is dependable: You can do it alone, if you lose your heart to something that is wrong for you, you can return it; it's instant gratification and yet something you buy may well last for years. Judith Krantz
american-novelist fact fiction interest party people press
Giving the same value to fiction as to fact in the interest of so-called fairness is to mislead the American people and the press has become party to that. Joe Wilson
american-novelist children fathers hearts turn
He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers. Greg Vaughn
american-novelist few jobs knew possible time
Because of my father's dislocated life, I knew intuitively that I wanted to have as few jobs as possible by the time I was married. John Hawkes
american-novelist bits felt nest strangely straw worked
But if all these things were the bits of tinsel and straw I made my nest out of, the way I felt while I worked was strangely different. Edmund White
american-novelist life moment truly
I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then.
fiction honest aim
The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth. Anton Chekhov
fiction life love whether
Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life. Abraham Verghese
fiction realizing social
What they [critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction] didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time. Doris Lessing
fiction ground los reality
What I do now is I write fiction. I ground my fiction in the reality of a place called Los Angeles. Michael Connelly
fiction documentaries directors
In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life. Alfred Hitchcock
fiction movement crafts
Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement. Raymond Carver
fiction kind film
There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films. Ray Bradbury
fiction imagine terrible
I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety of convenient fictions. Siri Hustvedt
fiction life-is stranger
Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't. Neil Gaiman
income people taxable taxed view
Things that some people have come to view as income and are used to being taxed on would not be taxable anymore.
income philosopher form
This is a question too difficult for a mathematician. It should be asked of a philosopher"(when asked about completing his income tax form) Albert Einstein
income expenses passive
You become financially free when your passive income exceeds your expenses. T. Harv Eker
income way
The time has come to match outgo to income, instead of always doing it the other way around. Ronald Reagan
income world taxes
Stop policing the world and we can get rid of income tax. Ron Paul
income intangible tax
In Florida, there is no income tax but there is an intangible tax, so they will be able to deduct both.
income percent toys usual
All the toys are gone. Everything's gone, and I'm making 25 percent of my usual income. And my wife-couldn't be happier. Stephen Baldwin
income demand pay
Nothing is more calculated to make a demagogue popular than a constantly reiterated demand for heavy taxes on the rich. Capital levies and high income taxes on the larger incomes are extraordinarily popular with the masses, who do not have to pay them. Ludwig von Mises
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You should find the dopest producer in your area, and that producer is always going to want songs written to his beat. Sevyn Streeter
written
What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why. Allen Tate
written
I always believed that whatever had to be written would somehow get itself written. Seamus Heaney
written
It's been unbelievable. We couldn't have written a better script. Mark Johnson
written-word written
The written word is everything. John Drinkwater
written
Every single lyric I've ever written I meant. John Lydon
written
I've just always written songs in a style that appeal to me personally. Lyle Lovett
written
I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern. Van Morrison