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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 important eternal
Write only of what is important and eternal. Anton Chekhov
writing intelligent men
If an intelligent, educated, and healthy man begins to complain of his lot and go down-hill, there is nothing for him to do but to go on down until he reaches the bottom--there is no hope for him. Where could my salvation come from? How can I save myself? I cannot drink, because it makes my head ache. I never could write bad poetry. I cannot pray for strength and see anything lofty in the languor of my soul. Laziness is laziness and weakness weakness. I can find no other names for them. I am lost, I am lost; there is no doubt of that.
trying needs venture-capitalists
While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do. Brad Feld
trying next
I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself. Janet Jackson
trying able hearing
I've never just been able to be alone, and I'm obsessed with being alone and hearing my thoughts. I'm trying to take this alone time — the five minutes I do have a day — to learn as much as I can. Miley Cyrus
trying ifs lifts
Maybe it's your time to lift off and fly You won't know if you never try.
trying
As I get older, I'm trying to accept improvisation into my day-to-day living. Colin Mochrie
trying
Divinity. That's what I'm trying to get at, in everything I write. Jayne Anne Phillips
trying
I am just through with a summer, and a summer is to me always a trying ordeal. Maria Mitchell
trying typical
This sounds really craven on some level, but on some level, a lot of what I'm doing is trying to not do a typical TV show. Matthew Weiner
trying
We're strong. But we're trying to keep pace. Jano Cabrera
may call-me sinner
They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself. Brigitte Bardot
may incidents happened
I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true. Elie Wiesel
may world illusion
This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got. Edward Abbey
maybe
There's just something about youth and comedy that go together. Maybe it's that foolishness, that silliness that you can get away with when you're younger, that you can't get away with when you're older. Joe Flaherty
may mood paradox
It is not paradox to say that in our most theoretical moods we may be nearest to our most practical applications. Alfred North Whitehead
may
Whatever you may say something is, it is not! Alfred Korzybski
may action contemplation
Faith may be relied upon to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation. Aldous Huxley
may able damnation
Suddenly to realise that one is sitting, damned, among the other damned--it is a most disquieting experience; so disquieting thatmost of us react to it by immediately plunging more deeply into our particular damnation in the hope, generally realized, that we may be able, at least for a time, to stifle our revolutionary knowledge.
may common human-nature
Common interest may always be reckoned upon as the surest bond of sympathy. Alexander Hamilton