Ho Chi Minh City is crowded, noisy, untidy and chaotic. I miss the orderly life of suburban America and the comfort of my apartment and my truck when I'm here, but when I get back in the USA I miss the craziness of Ho Chi Minh City or Bangkok.
Be good-natured and untidy in your exuberance.
I believe you have to write every day–make the time. It’s about having an organized mind instead of a chaotic and untidy one. There is a myth that writers are bohemian and do what they like in their own way. Real writers are the most organized people on the planet. You have to be. You’re doing the work and running your own business as well. It’s an incredibly organized state. [Also reading]…one of the things reading does do is discipline your mind. There are no writers who are not readers.
Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy.
Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair.
A film with an untidy plot cannot grip the audience and define their emotional response.
She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions. She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy.
Destiny and history are untidy.
There was this about vampires : they could never look scruffy. Instead, they were. . . what was the word. . . deshabille. It meant untidy, but with bags and bags of style.
Feelings are untidy.
