#dread

Science fiction writers, I am sorry to say, really do not know anything. We can't talk about science, because our knowledge of it is limited and unofficial, and usually our fiction is dreadful. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#am #anything #because #dreadful #fiction

Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up. ↗

— Joan Didion

#daily #day #different #down #dread

You dread that there will be real problems during filming. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#dread #during #filming #problems #real

I dread handshakes. I've got some problems with my hands, and everywhere I go, people want to impress me with their grip. To make it worse, now women are coming up with that firm shake. ↗

— George Foreman

#dread #everywhere #firm #go #got

It really was hand-to-mouth and you can say, 'Poor little me, how dreadful, what a deprived childhood', but I didn't feel that way at all. It's all about the attitude at home. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#attitude #childhood #deprived #dreadful #feel

His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught. ↗

— Edmund Waller

#god #his #instruct #love #man

Sixty felt like a big landmark. Not in a dreadful sense, but none of the other birthdays have bothered me. It's got labels on it - OAP, retirement - and I just wanted to take stock. I wanted to be in my greenhouse at home and at least give myself the opportunity of not working again. ↗

— Julie Walters

#big #birthdays #bothered #dreadful #felt

After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded. ↗

— Ethel Waters

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Work is the best of narcotics, providing the patient be strong enough to take it. I dread idleness as if it were Hell. ↗

— Beatrice Webb

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In addition to the dread of Indians, Texas held out no inducements for Mexican emigrants. ↗

— William H. Wharton

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