Oliver D. Crisp Quotes
[Jonathan Edwards] he has to be engaged with on this issue if you're writing about Calvinism as I am in this book.
Oliver D. Crisp
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Before my book, 'California,' came out, I had modest hopes for it. Or, let's put it this way - I had the same hopes that every literary fiction writer in America has: I wanted the novel to be well-received, critically. As for sales? I didn't want it to disappoint, but I didn't expect it to be a best-seller, either.
Edan Lepucki
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On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.
Ramon Rodriguez
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When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.
Salman Rushdie
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I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority.
Callie Khouri
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My house is filled with books, most of which I have read, some of which I intend to eventually get to. I'm always reading at least one work of fiction and one work of non-fiction simultaneously. Whatever mood I'm in, there's always a book nearby to suit it.
Rachel Nichols
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
Gabrielle Zevin
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My method is, I just sit down and write a book.
Karen Robards
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I'm an intense guy. I run 10 miles a day, which helps alleviate my intensity. Also, singing helps defuse my intensity. Playing the piano helps, and writing helps.
Dan Hill
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My first book was an adult novel, 'Down Among the Gods,' published by Virago, and I've written poems as well, a slim volume of poetry.
Kate Thompson
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
Galileo Galilei
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At least half my writing time is spent researching. So for every hour I'm actually clicking on the keyboard, I'm spending another hour trying to figure out some tiny detail I need answered.
Gail Carriger
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The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you to the end of the book on feather wings while 'Foster the People' plays gently in the background. Storytelling is work. Pleasurable work, usually, but it is work.
Maggie Stiefvater
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Yes, the Bechdel Test. It's named for Allison Bechdel, who is a comic book creator. The test is, are there two named women in the film? Do they talk to each other? And is it about something other than a man? I actually think the Bechdel Test is a little advanced for us sometimes.
Kelly Sue DeConnick
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You know that thing people say, 'poetry is the hardest, stories are the second hardest, novels are the easiest?' I'm here to tell you that novels are the hardest. Writing a novel is unbelievably difficult. It's nightmarish.
Ethan Canin
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I want to show people that you really can get an amazing workout at home using your body weight, and it really doesn’t have to be longer than 30 minutes.
Mark Wright
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What I worry about is that people are losing confidence, losing energy, losing enthusiasm, and there's a real opportunity to get them into work.
Boris Johnson
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The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth: for kings are not only God's Lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself they are called Gods.
King James I
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[Jonathan Edwards] he has to be engaged with on this issue if you're writing about Calvinism as I am in this book.
Oliver D. Crisp
