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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.
opposites differences judging
The comparison between Coleridge and Johnson is obvious in so far as each held sway chiefly by the power of his tongue. The difference between their methods is so marked that it is tempting, but also unnecessary, to judge one to be inferior to the other. Johnson was robust, combative, and concrete; Coleridge was the opposite. The contrast was perhaps in his mind when he said of Johnson: "his bow-wow manner must have had a good deal to do with the effect produced. Virginia Woolf
opposites water gold
If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things. Rebecca Solnit
opposites telling-the-truth
In society, one doesn't tell the truth, one tells the exact opposite. Nelson Eddy
opposites age becoming
I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry. Nawal El Saadawi
opposites creative synthesis
But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony. Martin Luther King, Jr.
opposites temptation satan
The clearest sensation that a human being has when he experiences the holy is an overpowering and overwhelming sense of creatureliness. That is, when we are in the presence of God, we are humbled and become most aware of ourselves as creatures. This is the opposite of Satan's original temptation, "You shall be as gods. R. C. Sproul
opposites impossible
The opposite of nature is impossible. R. Buckminster Fuller
opposites chemistry attraction
In marriage, as in chemistry, opposites have often an attraction. Letitia Elizabeth Landon
opposites would-be strange
Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like. Olivier Martinez
names evil nations
The evils which sapped the nation's strength had all been wrought in the name of religion. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
names kind stage
I'm still James Johnson. Rick James is a stage name. James Johnson keeps Rick James on the ground... Kind of sort of. Rick James
names effort doctrine
All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted. Virchand Gandhi
names want trouble
Well, trouble's my middle name. Actually, my middle name is Marion, but I don't want you spreading that around. Woody Allen
names nuance film
There's something about my films; they're informed by my sensibility. I have the same preoccupations, the same interests... there's just something in the nuance, and so you always know it's a film of mine whether I sign my name to it or not.
names use firsts
We need very much a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I should incline to call him a scientist. [The first use of the word.] William Whewell
names long desire
Me this uncharted freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance desires, My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same. William Wordsworth
names i-am-thankful obnoxious
I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun. William Shenstone
names
My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian! William Shatner