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I'm drawn to fiction that hints at nonfiction, that blurs or seems to blur the boundaries between invention and autobiography.

I'm drawn to fiction that hints at nonfiction, that blurs or seems to blur the boundaries between invention and autobiography.

Garth Greenwell
Nonfiction, Hints, Boundaries
Source: therumpus.net

I love to make music that makes people feel mood-enhancing, life-affirming brilliance but I just make whatever comes out at the time and sometimes it's up and sometimes it down and sometimes it sideways with a hint of s smile.

Eliza Doolittle
People, Hints, Down And

I have a piano in my living room that I mess around on a little bit and when I asked Len if I could find a piece of music, I went through a **** load of classical music to find something that I felt had a certain urgency to it, but also with a hint of melancholia and maybe a sense of longing. I found that which is public domain and I had a piano teacher to go through it with me.

Colin Farrell
Teacher, Piano, Hints
"Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, & Jessica Biel Discuss ‘Total Recall’". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

For me, one of the really cool things about this is that throughout these movies, there have been - and I enjoyed it this way - hints at what S.H.I.E.L.D. is and how they function within this Marvel movie universe which, as you know, is deeply based in the comic books.

Clark Gregg
Book, Hints, Way
Source: collider.com

I can only give you some hints. You have to place him in a situation where your advantages are magnified.

Christopher Pike
Giving, Hints, Advantage
Christopher Pike (2013). “Thirst: Thirst No. 1; Thirst No. 2; Thirst”, p.237, Simon and Schuster

After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig.

Chinua Achebe
War, Vines, Hints
Chinua Achebe (2009). “Collected Poems”, p.29, Anchor

If I wanted to be in movies, I'd have gone into scriptwriting: the fact that I write novels should be a big hint about what I prefer to do!

Charles Stross
Writing, Gone, Hints

The more imagination the reader has ... the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the author, flood wretched material with suggestion and never guess that he is himself chiefly making what he enjoys.

C. S. Lewis
Imagination, Suggestions, Hints
C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Autumn is a hint from God to Old Age.

Austin O'Malley
Autumn, Age, Hints

He had not breathed a word of love, or dropped one hint of tenderness or affection, and yet I had been supremely happy. To be near him, to hear him talk as he did talk, and to feel that he thought me worthy to be so spoken to - capable of understanding and duly appreciating such discourse - was enough.

Anne Bronte
Appreciate, Understanding, Hints
Anne Bronte (1859). “Agnes Grey”, p.172, Library of Alexandria

But at least if you hint and are rejected, the rejection is blurable rather than blistering. Whereas if you ask outright and are refused, the humiliation is as stark as a streaker on a football.

Anna Maxted
Football, Rejection, Hints
Anna Maxted (2016). “Getting Over It”, p.228, Random House

A lot of the questions that anyone would naturally have about their family, you'll get much of the answers for, or at least hints to where it will go, in the future.

Adam Baldwin
Hints, Answers

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