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“There are certainly times when my own everyday life seems to retreat so the life of the story can take me over. That is why a writer often needs space and time, so that he or she can abandon ordinary life and "live" with the characters.”

Needs Character Stories Seems My Own Space Ordinary Everyday Abandon Take Me Everyday Life Retreat Time And Space Ordinary Life

Author:Margaret Mahy

“Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.”

Writing Seems Differences My Own Reader Equal Importance Prose

Author:Kevin Powers

“I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the way I'm best equipped to do that.”

People Way Want Writing Feelings Seems Natural My Own Share Tendencies Observation

Author:Jerry Spinelli

“I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.”

Knows Littles Seems Spiritual Parent Understanding My Own Generations Fit Fulfillment Search For Meaning

Author:Radhanath Swami

“My characters seem real because they are drawn from the realities of my life. I didn't have to research their pain; I just tapped into my own.”

Real Character Reality Seems Pain My Own Research

Author:Charles de Lint

“When I thinkof my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair.”

Moments Hands Seems My Own Land Despair Native Alas Recollection Native Land

Author:William Cowper

“One thing I hate about the New Deal is that it is killing what, to me, is the American pioneering spirit. I simply do not know what to tell my own boys, leaving school and confronting this new world whose ideal is Security and whose practice is dependence upon government instead of upon one's self. All the old character-values seem simply insane from a practical point of view; the self-reliant, the independent, the courageous man is penalized from every direction.”

“Too many people believe they can control their drug of choice. But the drug is almost always in control. If an addict truly wants help, it is available, but it is a rocky path. The monster always calls. Never give an addict money. Clothe them. Feed them. But enabling them is the quickest path to watching them fade away completely. This may seem harsh. But I've watched my own child relapse, after six years sober. I love her. Always. But I can't help her die.”

People Ifs Want Giving Years Believe May Children I Can Helping Seems Dies Choices My Own Path Drug Six Available Monsters Fades Harsh Sober Addict Enabling Fade Away Relapse

Author:Ellen Hopkins

“The great thing about celebrity culture is that they can't seem to stop themselves from displaying their ridiculous behaviour. I feel it's my job as a serious investigative journalist to witness all kinds of behaviour and then report back to the audience through the prism of my own anger and bitterness.”

Feels Kind Seems Jobs Culture My Own Audience Serious Anger Ridiculous Great Things All Kinds Witness Journalist Reports Bitterness Behaviour Prisms Celebrity Culture Anger And Bitterness

Author:Kathy Griffin

“You might look at my CV and see I've had 12 jobs, but I've been to over 450 auditions so I've heard 'no' a lot more than I've heard 'yes'. So if I go in looking only to meet my own standards, then that will make taking that rejection a little bit easier. And when I do get that job it will seem like icing on the cake.”

Ifs Looks Littles Seems Might Jobs Bits My Own Heard Easier Little Bit Standards Rejection Cake Auditions Icing Icing On The Cake

Author:Wentworth Miller

“Most of promoting seems unnatural to me, and I wish I didn't have to do it. I'm not especially good at tooting my own horn. However, I do love to connect with readers. That's why I try to keep up with my social media even when I don't have a new book coming out.”

Trying Book Seems Wish Social My Own Media Reader Social Media Coming Out Promoting Horns Unnatural New Books

Author:Linda Conrad

“I have my own way to walk and for some reason or other Zen is right in the middle of it wherever I go. So there it is, with all its beautiful purposelessness, and it has become very familiar to me though I do not know "what it is." Or even if it is an "it." Not to be foolish and multiply words, I'll say simply that it seems to me that Zen is the very atmosphere of the Gospels, and the Gospels are bursting with it. It is the proper climate for any monk, no matter what kind of monk he may be. If I could not breathe Zen I would probably die of spiritual asphyxiation.”

Source: Encounter: Thomas Merton & D.T. Suzuki

“Having small children and being an investigative reporter would seem like a difficult mix, but it worked well for me. I was often working on my own enterprise stories, which were not as deadline sensitive.”

Wells Children Stories Seems Difficult My Own Sensitive Enterprise Reporters Deadline Small Child

Author:Jill Abramson

“Is my understanding only blindness to my own lack of understanding? It often seems so to me.”

Seems Science Understanding My Own Mathematics Blindness Lack Of Understanding

Book:On Certainty

Source: On Certainty

“My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft refusal, avoidance of work that can be used by the agencies of militarism and repression, all seem to me essential.”

Should Feelings Seems Used My Own Activity Taxes Essentials Refuse Agency Aggression Refusal Repression Avoidance Militarism

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I like Paris because I find something here, something of integrity, which I seem to have strangely lost in my own country. It is simplest of all to say that I like to live among people and surroundings where I am not always conscious of 'thou shall not.' I am colored and wish to be known as colored, but sometimes I have felt that my growth as a writer has been hampered in my own country. And so - but only temporarily - I have fled from it.”

People Has Beens Country Sometimes Seems Lost Wish Felt Growth My Own Known Integrity Racism Conscious Paris Simplest Surroundings

Author:Jessie Redmon Fauset

“I'm done with the whole idea of having my own children. It doesn't seem like any fun.”

Children Ideas Done Whole Seems Fun My Own

Author:Katherine Heigl

“It seems to me that doubt is worse than trial. I had sooner suffer any affliction than be left to question the gospel or my own interest in it.”

Seems Christian Suffering Left Interest My Own Doubt Trials Affliction

Book:The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 29: Sermons 1698-1756

Source: The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 29: Sermons 1698-1756

“When I started reciting my own poems in public, I worried that it would seem too theatrical, but now I find recitation very natural, because it allows me to address audiences directly.”

Seems Natural My Own Audience Worried Addresses Theatrical Reciting Recitation

Author:James Arthur

“I couldn't decide on a title for my first novel and my editor came up with Everything Good Will Come. After that, I thought I should name my own books.A Bit of Difference seems just right.”

Should Firsts Book Seems Names Bits Differences My Own Novel Titles Editors Good Will

Author:Sefi Atta

“When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they're not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work, I could easily write a very convincing sort of account of it that made it look like I had planned it all out from day one and that this led logically to that and then I did this and then that followed quite naturally from that. But that's not how it felt.”

Writing Looks Made Seems Felt My Own Periods Accounts Historical Obvious Made It Characteristics Convincing

Author:Brian Eno

“Thankfully, God's plans do not seem to be affected much by my own.”

Seems My Own Plans Affected God's Plan

Book:Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption

Source: Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption

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