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writing important scene
I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them. Brandon Sanderson
writing way controversy
There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write. Ben Mezrich
writing thinking talking
If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two percent magic. Barbara Kingsolver
writing perfect
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
writing habit latter
I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter. Barbara Mertz
writing thinking secret
The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work. Augusten Burroughs
writing down-and ritual
My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.
writing language clarity
Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
writing i-can ifs
If I see an ending, I can work backward. Arthur Miller
mentally
That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him. Tony Russa
mention mere smile smiles
You smile with just the mere mention of his name. John Sullivan
men iron envy
As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man. Antisthenes
men life-is hanging-out
Life is too large to hang out a sign: 'For Men Only. Barbara Jordan
men religion useless
Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity. Baruch Spinoza
men desire tongue
Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.
men simplicity fame
The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men. Augustus Hare
men evil neighbor
A man prone to suspect evil is mostly looking in his neighbor for what he sees in himself.
men thinking principles
Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.
names suffering firsts
What is there? I know first of all that I am. But who am I? All I know of myself is that I suffer. And if I suffer it is because at the origin of myself there is mutilation, separation. I am separated. What I am separated from -- I cannot name it. But I am separated. Arthur Adamov
names people goes-on
It makes you famous, you get money from it, you go on and do the best you can, but it really is dreadful that people don't know your name. Jamie Farr
names substance matter
This substance, which is manifold in its forms and protean in its transformations, has, in its state of living matter, one physiological name which has become familiar, that of protoplasm. Asa Gray
names wonderland strange
I have a sister and her name is Mimsy, like from 'Alice in Wonderland,' so we've got some strange names in our family. Brie Larson
names sexism dear
Dear me no Dears, Sir ... Aphra Behn
names hollywood thirty
In Hollywood a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel. Ben Hecht
names evil intellectual
What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil. The intellectual Lucifer is the spirit of intelligence and love; it is the paraclete, it is the Holy Spirit, while the physical Lucifer is the great agent of universal magnetism. Eliphas Levi
names water soul
A soul of water a soul of stone. A soul by name a soul unknown. The hours unmake our flesh our bone. The Soul is all and all alone! Clive Barker
names trying chipotle
If you don't know my name and you don't know what movie I'm from, don't come ask for a picture while I'm trying to eat chipotle Ansel Elgort