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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 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 should more-money
A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)? Brian Aldiss
writing way better-person
the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person. Brenda Ueland
writing exercise perspective
The writing of an assay-type poem or a poem investigating perspective isn't an exercise of rational or strategic mind. Poems for me are acts of small or large desperation. They grapple with surfaces too steep to walk in any other way, yet which have to be traveled. Jane Hirshfield
writing sitting-still wish
I wish I could write while I'm on the road but it never works for me. I need to be sitting still. Jami Attenberg
writing emotional historical-novels
I've been told by people who write historical novels that you just sort of write the emotional truth first, the story at the core, and then you go back and research it at the end.
writing should performing
Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform. bell hooks
writing fool boring
I never learned to read or write music. Never wanted to fool with scales. That was boring, forced. The music I heard was free - flowing. Barry White
thinking proud bryan
Superman is there to unite us all, I think. I'm proud of Bryan for respecting that and not making it just about us. Brandon Routh
thinking bridges age
I was trying to get into the business from a young age, but I don't think I really realized how much I loved it until I booked my first movie and found myself in New Zealand for six months filming Bridge to Terabithia. Bailee Madison
thinking challenges would-be
I think a challenge for myself is to see how many times I can get above 9,000. That would be a good challenge. Ashton Eaton
thinking issues want
A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue. Azar Nafisi
thinking islam needs
I think Islam is in a sense, in crisis. It needs to question and re-question itself.
thinking looks alive
Now look at me! Take a good look! I was born and I knew I was alive and I knew what I wanted. What do you think is alive in me? Why do you think I'm alive? Because I have a stomach and eat and digest the food? Because I breathe and work and produce more food to digest? Or because I know what I want, and that something which knows how to want—isn't that life itself? And who—in this damned universe—who can tell me why I should live for anything but for that which I want? Ayn Rand
thinking religion trying
Never try to discourage thinking, for you are sure to succeed. Bertrand Russell
thinking too-much next
Every stage of my life set the scene for the next, and at each point all I had to do was say "yes" and not think too much about the consequences. Jane Goodall
thinking talent states
I think Canadian talent is exceptional. You continually show us up here in the States with your brilliancy. Jamie Farr
editors giving likes
You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets fretful. After he pees in it, he likes the flavor better, so he buys it. Robert A. Heinlein
editors horror critics
The reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror. Flannery O'Connor
editors fingers crops
Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no photo editor can crop you from the picture. Ken Auletta
editors years clue
I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt. Len Wein