It is obvious that an imagined world, however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it.
The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.
Although enlightened people know that an extreme phobia wasn't a form of madness, hey could not help but regard it as odd.
Everything beautiful has a story it wants to tell'" she said reading aloud the store's tagline at the top of the form.. "I love that.
Becoming an effective letter writer means analyzing each situation individually and choosing the form of correspondence accordingly.
Let the letters clash forming an invisible meaning of a sunny night, freezing chimney, and silent screams. When words betray you, hold on to your imagination.
Aloneness is a gift. A beautiful gift to the human soul. True and consistent satisfaction comes from the bond you form with yourself. Nobody else is a constant
I did not think much what I was writing them for, except that I knew I wanted my next novel to be in some less conventional form than straight narrative.
If we save people from HIV/AIDS, if we save them from malaria, it means they can form the base of production for our economy.
Courage comes in different forms. There's strength--that's the muscle. But love's the heart. When you put them together, you can do anything.
I'm doing a lot of things in Africa. I've formed a company with two friends of mine called Made In Africa and we are doing a lot of important things across the continent.
Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember.
Each book I've done somehow finds its own unique form, a specific way it has to be written, and once I find it, I stick with it.
I saw a ghost once, about 20 years ago. It took the form of someone coming out of a sleeping body and sitting at the foot of the bed.
I have a severe Google Reader habit. I think people will use blog forms and Twitter to contrive fiction.
Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the main characters contributed a distinctive version of the story.
The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form.
But I don't know. Pee-wee just kind of popped out one day, pretty much fully fleshed-out and fully formed.
I really believe that studying organization, even in the form of studying detective story organization, is very, very valuable for a playwright, a budding playwright.
What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.
Don't ever feel like your best days are behind you. Reinvention is the purest form of hope. Make today your best yet!
