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"My precious." Gollum: Andy Serkis: The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers: 2002 86 "Attica! Attica!" Sonny Wortzik: Al Pacino: Dog Day Afternoon: 1975 87 "Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!" Julian Marsh Warner Baxter: 42nd Street: 1933 88 "Listen to me, mister. You're my knight in shining armor. Don't you ...
Contest is a novel by Australian author Matthew Reilly. The novel is notable for making the author's career, after being self-published when he was 22 and catching the eye of a publisher who contracted him to write more books. His subsequent writing of bestsellers such as Ice Station established his career, leading Contest to become a NYT best ...
The contest was started in 1982 by Professor Scott E. Rice of the English Department at San Jose State University and was named for English novelist and playwright Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, author of the much-quoted first line "It was a dark and stormy night". This opening, from the 1830 novel Paul Clifford, reads in full:
Patchett's life as a writer, from her earliest grade school writing, through college and graduate school, magazine writing, novels and ultimately selling books at her Nashville independent bookstore Parnassus, is woven throughout. Patchett describes These Precious Days as a sequel to her 2013 essay collection This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage.
Louis Antoine de Saint-Just's line "Nobody can rule guiltlessly" appears before chapter one in Arthur Koestler's 1940 anti-totalitarian novel Darkness at Noon. A Samuel Johnson quotation serves as an epigraph in Hunter S. Thompson's novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: "He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man."
The William Faulkner – William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition is one of America's leading literary competitions and has been presenting awards in fiction, nonfiction and poetry since 1993. [1] The competition is named after the Faulkner Society’s namesake, novelist William Faulkner , and William Wisdom of New Orleans , a literary ...
Marks for writing style and comprehensive coverage. ♦♦ A model history. Cleanly separates available witnesses and events from analysis of them, both in papers at the time and after the fact at the end of the century. Elaborates on each of a few possible explanations for the events, with a balanced touch. Well-referenced. +sj +
Precious has taken up poetry and is eventually awarded the mayor's office's literacy award for outstanding progress. The accomplishment boosts her spirits. As her attitude changes and her confidence grows, Precious thinks about having a boyfriend and a real relationship with someone near her age who attracts her interest.