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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. Jami Attenberg
writing creative producers
I do a lot of co-writing with my producer RedOne, and then a lot on my own. I just like to be creative. Austin Mahone
writing needs gypsy
I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them. Delta Goodrem
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
men iron envy
As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man. Antisthenes
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. Baruch Spinoza
men simplicity fame
The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men. Augustus Hare
men great-men
Great men can't be ruled. Ayn Rand
men together taught
Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone. Ayn Rand
men goes-on prometheus
And man will go on. Man, not men. Ayn Rand
men ideas speech
No speech is ever considered, but only the speaker. It's so much easier to pass judgement on a man than on an idea. Ayn Rand
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 problem dear
From dear, dear Gloria Swanson, I learned how to live long, happy and free of health problems. I owe her my life. Dirk Benedict
long enough plant
I carry the seeds of death within me and plant them wherever I linger long enough to love. Orson Scott Card