The word 'novel' carries, for me, a weight as ominous, all-consuming and unforgiving as any Job encountered.
The best advice on writing I've ever received is to take it seriously, because to do it well is all-consuming.
I find beauty very frightening because it's such an all consuming subject in our society.
As all-consuming as a young girl's fancies were ... a woman's desires could be twice as dangerous.
As a professional athlete, part of my job is to make sure I'm consuming high quality nutrients.
I'm finding that success is way more time-consuming than failure ever was.
The essential element in personal magnetism is a consuming sincerity - an overwhelming faith in the importance of the work one has to do.
Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself.
The process for finding, creating, and consuming information has fundamentally changed with the advent of the web and the rise of blogging.
I know what high stakes politics demands, it is a twenty-four seven, totally consuming experience.
You cannot live a nonviolent life as long as you are consuming violence. Please consider going vegan.
To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is in fact the consuming illness of our time.
Consuming mushrooms regularly has been associated with decreased risk of breast, stomach and colorectal cancers.
Consuming less is the fastest way to eco-fashion redemption - particularly if your preference is for leather, not hemp.
In every woman's life there is one real and consuming love. But very few women guess which one it is.
In a participatory culture, none of us is fully literate unless we're creating, not just consuming.
To love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength is all-consuming and all-encompassing. It is no lukewarm endeavor.
Some crushes just never went away. They built, instead, into something permanent, obsessive and all consuming.
A great love is a credit opened in favor of a power so consuming that the moment of bankruptcy must inevitably occur.
Our God is a consuming fire. He consumes pride, lust, materialism, and other sin.
If you do not know where the mushroom products you are consuming are grown, think twice before eating them.
We are so conformist; nobody is thinking. We are all sucking up stuff; we have been trained to be consumers, and we are all consuming far too much.
The problem with anger is that it's so consuming. You've got to take it easy on yourself at a certain point.
Anger is an all-consuming fire that will burn you and everyone else around you. Where is the justice in that?
As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.
The skin of everyday appearances stretched over such shamelessness, such consuming explosions of lust.
A hobby is, of course, an abomination, as are all consuming interests and passions that do not lead directly to large, personal gain.
I work a lot with a green screen, which is really time consuming. All the special effects are.
Shooting stuff on horseback is more complicated and time consuming than anything else.
The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.
Rap isn't that time-consuming for me, compared to an ordinary artist. I do not stay in the studio all day.
When you're in a play like 'Kean,' you can't think of anything else. Love is too time-consuming.
Depression is an illness. It is not a ticket to genius. It is not an interesting personality quirk. It is horrible and all-consuming and really hurts.
I come from the streaming world, so the changing trend of consuming music that way is positive for me.
I know a guy who gave up smoking cigarettes, consuming, sex, and wealthy meals.
Up to a certain extent the UN soldiers are useful. But they are consuming a lot of resources in relation to the little work they are doing.
A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing.
Playing the role of Vartika in 'Delhi Crime' was one of the most exhausting, consuming and enriching experiences of my career.
In my particular case foreign policy happens to be my hobby, my consuming interest. I had spent decades studying it.
I made every single piece myself, each individual component, so it was quite time consuming.
I always thought that consuming ghee is unhealthy and leads to putting on too much weight, but I was proved wrong.
I've been horribly depressed (lately), which, as you know, can be terribly time-consuming. I mean, if you're going to do it right, that is.
Having warm water, gargling and consuming food rich in vitamin C are now part of my daily routine.
Too much quiet left me depressed and consuming condiments for meals.
I've directed a couple of times in the theater, but I wouldn't make a habit of it because it's too consuming.
For me, acting is not an all-consuming thing, except for the moment when I am actually doing it.
Shopping for clothes is time consuming, it's tiring, and it can feel like a waste of an autumn afternoon.
Success can be wracking and reproachful, to you and those close to you. It can entangle you with legends that are consuming and all but impossible to live up to.
As a working mother of a large family, preparing meals and shopping for groceries is time consuming and hard work.
I feel very guilty about not having a vegetable garden, but it is quite time-consuming.
I love fashion, I'm actually a pretty talented seamstress, so I can make stuff for myself, but that's really time-consuming.
Even with multiple instruction books, maneuvering the maze of the tax code is costly and time-consuming.
Regardless of your metabolism, if you stop consuming so many calories, you will lose weight.
Burn with that consuming fire of objectivity that forces a man to renew efforts that are doomed to failure.
Like many members of the uncultured, Cheez-It consuming public, I am not good at grasping modern art.
Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it's too painful and time-consuming.
This is fun; consuming our music shouldn't be a responsibility like eating your spinach or something.
As soon as I got my business going, after a couple of years it was pretty much consuming my whole life.
I have always enjoyed dressing up, but I don't do it as often as I would want to, because it's time consuming.
Spotify wants to make consuming music simpler and at the same time pay the rights owners.
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