You'll come to my grave? To tell me your problems?" My problems? "Yes. ' And you'll give me answers? "I'll give you what I can. Don't I always?" I picture his grave, on the hill, overlooking the pond, some little nine foot piece of earth where they will place him, cover him with dirt, put a stone on top. Maybe in a few weeks? Maybe in a few days? I see myself sitting there alone, arms across my knees, staring into space. It won't be the same, I say, not being able to hear you talk. "Ah, talk. . . " He closes his eyes and smiles. "Tell you what. After I'm dead, you talk. And I'll listen.
Everything for us is a system. We don't think about it discretely as just as a piece of hardware, or discretely as an application. . . or discretely as a platform. We think about it across the whole thing.
Second edition of Earthworks I have the more traditional compositional approach, namely I write a piece from the piano.
If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions.
When a writer's whole being is poured into a piece of work, there is never enough. The feeling of finally getting to the end of a piece of work, of making it as good as you can at that moment, is more of a relief than anything else, and then you wait for reviews.
The car is a character in the piece - I've never liked the car, I submitted to it's objectionable popularity.
In each of my characters there is a little of me. Not strictly autobiographical but a little piece of my soul.
With opposite coloured bishops the attacking side has in effect an extra piece in the shape of his bishop.
One of the most terrible things about the English education System in Ireland is its ruthlessness. . . it is cold and mechanical, like the ruthlessness of an immensely powerful engine. A machine vast, complicated. . . It grinds night and day; it obeys immutable and predetermined laws; it is as devoid of understanding, of sympathy, of imagination, as is any other piece of machinery that performs an appointed task. Into it is fed all raw human material in Ireland; it seizes upon it inexorably and rends and compresses and remoulds.
The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don't know.
Dirt's a funny thing,' the Boss said. 'Come to think of it, there ain't a thing but dirt on this green God's globe except what's under water, and that's dirt too. It's dirt makes the grass grow. A diamond ain't a thing in the world but a piece of dirt that got awful hot. And God-a-Mighty picked up a handful of dirt and blew on it and made you and me and George Washington and mankind blessed in faculty and apprehension. It all depends on what you do with the dirt. That right?
A piece of the miracle process has been reserved for each of us
To appeal to contemporary man to revert, in this twentieth century, to a pagan-like nature worship in order to restrain technology from further encroachment and devastation of the resources of nature, is a piece of atavistic nonsense.
A fragment is not a fraction but a whole piece
But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting.
I'm reading a bunch of fiction by Afghan and Iraq War veterans for a New Yorker piece. There hasn't been that much, but it's starting to come out, and some of the fiction is really good.
I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.
The biggest piece of advice I would give to other women and girls is that it's really hard, and I feel like we're promised in like these phrases like, "Never give up," and stuff like that, it's going to be easier if you just listen to them. In my experience, and I think the experience of my friends and other women around me, it's a lot - you have to do a lot for yourself because the world isn't as friendly to women and girls as it should be, and it's not as helpful as it should be.
We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.
If someone realises the piece they are wearing is inspired by me then it only broadens my audience.