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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 i-can ifs
If I see an ending, I can work backward. Arthur Miller
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 college two
I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go so far as to call it a talent. But it scared me. I felt it was a childish thing wanting to write and that I would forget about it eventually. Ben Fountain
writing church musician
But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you thats the center of it, that is it. Its almost like theres something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if youre a songwriter that sings your material. Ben Folds
writing style literature
I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen. Carl Sandburg
played sure
As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride. Jessica Valenti
played
I've played 654 concerts. That's never been done. Charles Terry
players score three time
I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do. Pete Hald
play female different
My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth. Barbara Stanwyck
play acting too-much
I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me. Carice van Houten
player thinking games
But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. C. S. Lewis
play playing-chess chess
All I want to do, ever, is play chess. Bobby Fischer
play singing jazz
When Lester plays, he almost seems to be singing; one can almost hear the words. Billie Holiday
play soar spectators
Personally, I've never understood inactivity. Why a person would sit when he could soar, be a spectator when he could play, or atrophy when he could develop...is beyond me! Bill Hybels
long hours long-hours
I love to do what I do. So, I do work long hours. Brandon Sanderson
long people saws
You're not going to see people like this again for a long time, he said and I said I always saw people like this & he looked at me for a moment and said, You're not from around here, are you? Brian Andreas
long understanding forests
Chimpanzees have given me so much. The long hours spent with them in the forest have enriched my life beyond measure. What I have learned from them has shaped my understanding of human behavior, of our place in nature. Jane Goodall
long people trouble
The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome. Carson McCullers
long done pondering
At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry. Charles Darwin
long-ago long laziness
the less one does, as I long ago observed, the less one can find time to do. Jane Welsh Carlyle
long want minutes
I don't want to die as long as I can work; the minute I can not, I want to go. Susan B. Anthony
long waiting remember
We shall not grow weary of waiting upon God if we remember how long and how graciously He once waited for us. Charles Spurgeon
long people get-better
Leading a band and producing yourself and picking cool tunes and putting a show together takes a lot of thought, and a certain amount of courage. In my early twenties, if I wasn't getting good enough at it, then people would not come and see me. Anybody who has lasted this long - I hope we get better with age. Bonnie Raitt