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writing order should-have
First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand. C. S. Lewis
writing description delightful
Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.
writing youth access
I write of youth, of love, and have access by these to sing of cleanly wantonness. Catullus
writing guitar eight
So, once I get writing I really try and put five to eight hours a day in my room with a guitar to really try and come up with stuff that feels interesting enough to me to keep it. Catie Curtis
writing solitude needs
I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.
writing people stories
I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing. Cecelia Ahern
writing creative feelings
I write my novels longhand. I love the feeling of writing; I love to see pen on paper. It feels more creative than typing, and it's a more visual process for me - I can picture the entire scene in my head and am merely writing what I see.
writing mystery
I would love to write a mystery - a romantic, funny mystery.
writing night space
I'm most happy when I am writing at night, because I need space and time to write.
oddities feelings enlightenment
It is a special kind of enlightenment to have this feeling that the usual, the way things normally are, is odduncanny and highly improbable. G.K.Chesterton once said that it is one thing to be amazed at gorgon or a griffin, creatures which do not exist; but it is quite another and much higher thing to be amazed at a rhinoceros or a giraffe, creatures which do exist and look as if they don't. This feeling of universal oddity includes a basic and intense wondering about the sense of things. Alan Watts
oddities exactly-is effort
Consider the oddity of those drug commercials on television. Fifteen seconds of the purported therapeutic effort, followed by about 45 seconds of a rapidly muttered list of horrific possible side effects. When the ad is over, I can't remember a thing about what the pill is supposed to do, except perhaps cause nausea, liver damage, projectile vomiting, a nasty rash, a four-hour erection, and sudden death. Sudden death is my favorite because there is something comical about it being a side effect. What exactly is the main effect in that case? Relief from abdominal bloating? Charles Krauthammer
oddities perspective world
There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. Douglas Adams
oddities lobster looks
Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not to look to poetry. But if you want to see the word lobster in all its reactant oddity, its pied beauty, as if for the first time, go to poetry. And if you want to know what it’s like to be that lobster in the pot, that’s in poetry too. Dean Young
oddities people may
It may be in the cultural particularities of people — in their oddities — that some of the most instructive revelations of what it is to be generically human are to be found. Clifford Geertz
oddities standing-out
The things that stand out are often the oddities. Pierre Salinger
oddities laughing judgment
I laugh at weird times - at good and bad things alike. I laugh simply when things are incongruous. It's not necessarily a judgment - as it is noticing the oddity of something. Eugene Mirman
oddities littles feels
I feel comfortable in the presence of oddity. Probably because I'm a little bit odd. Martha Plimpton
oddities sorrow faults
Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow. George Eliot
ideas listen people quickly stronger tough
On a film crew, you can see very quickly that some people who are working with you are stronger than you. Then you have to have the humility to listen to them. And because very often they have better ideas than yours, it can be tough on the evil ego. But it makes a better film. Denis Villeneuve
ideas sticks brilliant
I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right. Cecil Rhodes
ideas needs sometimes
sometimes we have absolutely no idea where we are, we need the smallest clue to show us where to begin.
ideas jars cookies
I found out when I did the Oprah Winfrey show that there was a cookie jar of me. So she gave it to me. I had no idea prior to that that it even existed. Carrie Fisher
ideas persons my-own
No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. Carl Rogers
ideas return becoming
Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. It is to experience that I must return again and again, to discover a closer approximation to truth as it is in the process of becoming me.
ideas fiction firsts
Ours is the first generation that has grown up with science-fiction ideas. Carl Sagan
ideas littles merit
The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.
ideas numbers world
The Hindu religion is the only of the World's great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths.