I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.
My favorite author is Anton Chekhov, not so much for the plays but for his short stories, and I think he was really my tutor.
I have been writing songs and poems since I was a little girl. I started writing short scripts, which evolved into the idea for a book.
My laziness is really profound. I'm really interested in where it comes from - it almost feels chemical. And we've all got ADD now, short attention span and all that.
We many times sell ourselves short, not only in relationships but throughout our own lives. Hopefully, we come around at some point and realize our own value.
Satan's survival-of-the-fittest system appears to work- in the short run. But the great controversy is about the long run.
Accordingly, when the supply of gold runs short, the security behind the notes is diminished, the loaning of notes is restricted or suspended, and the panic follows.
Most publishers seem very reluctant to publish short story collections at all; they bring them out in paperback, often disguised as novels.
Short, successful military adventures are as effective as the Super Bowl in diverting people's attention from unpleasant truths.
Any jerk can have short-term earnings. You squeeze, squeeze, squeeze, and the company sinks five years later.
most of us can only deny short-term pleasures because we see a realistic path between self-denial now and something better down the road.
I look forward to the spring vegetables because the season is so short. Mushrooms, edible foraged herbs, wild leeks, early season asparagus.
The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest.
To many people fall short of their goals because they mistakenly believe that losing is just another comfortable place to sit.
'Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.
The iambic line, with its characteristic forward movement from short to long, or light to heavy, or unstressed to stressed, is the quintessential measure of English verse.
I find that as long as I'm acting it doesn't matter if it's for TV, or a series or a short film. I always have fun no matter what I'm doing.
Kissing could have begun as a way of sniffing out who's who. From a whiff to a kiss was just a short trip across the face.
I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and I'm enjoying it.
To be with the others, you have to have your hair short and wear ties. So we're trying to make a third world happen, you know what I mean?
