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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 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. Rebecca West
writing known knows
I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.
writing editing edited
No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published. Russell Lynes
writing intelligent honest
Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life. Russell Banks
writing people care
And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.
writing discipline attention
If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.
writing media people
Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics, and the kind of people who write to presidents never expecting a reply. Russell Baker
cutting soul progress
In the history of a soul’s evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we stay there, go down or progress upwards. There is a knot of worldly desires impeding us; cut the knot by mastering desires and go forward. This done, progress is assured. Virchand Gandhi
cutting years kitchen
When you make the film, it's like a chef who works on the meal. After you're working all day in the kitchen and dicing and cutting and putting the sauces on, you don't want to eat it. That's how I always feel about the films. I work on it for a year. I've written it, I've worked with the actors, I've edited, put the music in. I just never want to see it again. Woody Allen
cutting bird delight
How do you know but ev’ry Bird that cuts the airy way, Is an immense world of delight, clos’d by your senses five? William Blake
cutting wings heaven
The pure soul shall mount on native wings, . . . and cut a path into the heaven of glory.
cutting views space
When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless... I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating over to the window, and that's when I got my first view of Earth. Just a spectacular view, and a chance to see our planet as a planet. Sally Ride
cutting jewelry diamond-rings
Wit must be foiled by wit: cut a diamond with a diamond. William Congreve
cutting men thinking
I was a poet too; but modern taste Is so refined and delicate and chaste, That verse, whatever fire the fancy warms, Without a creamy smoothness has no charms. Thus, all success depending on an ear, And thinking I might purchase it too dear, If sentiment were sacrific'd to sound, And truth cut short to make a period round, I judg'd a man of sense could scarce do worse Than caper in the morris-dance of verse. William Cowper
cutting thinking choices
My generation is one of the first generations of "choiceful" women - women who have actually had the choice of how they architect their lives - and I don't think shame should have any place in that. But as that generation, you get cuts and bruises. Tracee Ellis Ross
cutting rocks hands
Her concern with landscapes and living creatures was passionate. This concern, feebly called, "the love of nature" seemed to Shevek to be something much broader than love. There are souls, he thought, whose umbilicus has never been cut. They never got weaned from the universe. They do not understand death as an enemy; they look forward to rotting and turning into humus. It was strange to see Takver take a leaf into her hand, or even a rock. She became an extension of it, it of her. Ursula K. Le Guin
childhood bliss knows
It is the bliss of childhood that we are being warped most when we know it the least. William Gaddis
childhood extremes
My childhood was extreme. Tori Amos
childhood firsts steps
So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve.
childhood belief spoiled
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. Robertson Davies
childhood five-senses lost
I had proof that I had five senses, that I knew how to get myself to function! And then I lost my childhood... Yves Klein
childhood disease sickness
Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of. William Golding
childhood actors good-childhood
Nobody became an actor because he had a good childhood. William H. Macy
childhood idol paul sober wonderful
Paul is my childhood idol and when sober is a wonderful person. Imraan Ladak
childhood comics extremely issue
The issue of childhood is extremely complicated, the issue of comics is extremely complicated. And the intersection of the two is extremely, extremely complicated.