The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
The price works so well, so efficiently, that we are not aware of it most of the time.
Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works.
My teaching forces me to articulate what I think works in a piece of fiction and how I think it works. All of that gives me energy as a writer.
Something that works for one person could be a disadvantage to another.
I believe in anything that works.
I firmly believe that if your environment works for you and your family, it translates into a better life.
I never sit down to write. When I'm moved, I do it. I just wait for it to come. You just hear it. I can't really describe writing. It's in my head. I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs. . . A lot of people don't listen to the lyrics, really. A lot of people pretty much only listen to the chorus.
Naturalism is the view that the physical world is a self-contained system that works by blind, unbroken natural laws. Naturalism doesn't come right out and say there's nothing beyond nature. Rather, it says that nothing beyond nature could have any conceivable relevance to what happens in nature. Naturalism's answer to theism is not atheism but benign neglect. People are welcome to believe in God, though not a God who makes a difference in the natural order.
We need to kind of refresh our fear in order to refresh our understanding of how a safe place works.
I don't know what makes you so dumb but it really works.
Less disappointing than life, great works of art do not begin by giving us all their best.
[My mom] is quite the strict editor. I feel like maybe she has more of the old-school editing style, which really works in picture books, because you don't want to articulate anything in words that is already shown through the pictures.
Advances in computer technology and the Internet have changed the way America works, learns, and communicates. The Internet has become an integral part of America's economic, political, and social life
It works better if your lead character is complex and interesting and not perfect.
It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works.
Nature works in parallel ways.
The law is bigger than money - but only if the law works hard enough.
My friends just kept joking about all the horrible physical side effects [of Prednisone ]. I can only imagine that something that works that well has got to be bad for you.
The man who works recognizes his own product in the world that has actually been transformed by his work. He recognizes himself in it, he sees his own human reality in it he discovers and reveals to others the objective reality of his humanity of the originally abstract and purely subjective idea he has of himself