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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 two my-family
I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours. Brandon Sanderson
writing journalism sometimes
The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big. Anthony Shadid
writing way controversy
There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write. Ben Mezrich
writing emotional levels
When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level. Ben Marcus
writing reader
The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader. Ben Okri
writing night awake
I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night. Barbara Kingsolver
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. Barbara Kingsolver
years facts beverly-hills
When I was 13, Eddie Murphy was to me what Chris Tucker was to 13-year-olds when I made 'Rush Hour.' And 'Rush Hour' really came out of the fact that I grew up watching 'Beverly Hills Cop' and '48 Hrs.' Brett Ratner
years eight stories
I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories. Brett Ratner
years people effort
People can do great things. However, there are some things they just CAN'T do. I, for instance, have not been able to transform myself into a Popsicle, despite years of effort. Brandon Sanderson
years looks moments
He, too, stood looking at her for a moment--and it seemed to her that it was not a look of greeting after an absence, but the look of someone who had thought of her every day of that year. She could not be certain, it was only an instant, so brief that just as she caught it, he was turning... Ayn Rand
years fifty analysis
The repetition of a catchword can hold analysis in fetters for fifty years or more. Benjamin Cardozo
years sheep one-day
If I advance; follow me. If I retreat; kill me. If I die; avenge me! It is better to live one day as a lion than one-hundred years as a sheep! Benito Mussolini
years band nelson
Willie Nelson, out there 200 days a year, calls his band family. And it is. Brad Paisley
years tabloids masters
I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all Brad Pitt
years cities urban-renewal
As in the pseudoscience of bloodletting, just so in the pseudoscience of city rebuilding and planning, years of learning and a plethora of subtle and complicated dogma have arisen on a foundation of nonsense. Jane Jacobs
two old-friends wish
So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned. - Sherlock Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle
two exciting show-business
That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life. Barbara Mandrell
two half half-truth
Two half truths do not make a truth. Arthur Koestler
two issues empathy
There are two side to every issue. Ayn Rand
two america important
It is likely that America will be more important during the next century or two, but after that it may well be the turn of China. Bertrand Russell
two people different
People never understood that there was Brian and The Boz. They were two completely different people. Brian Bosworth
two white numbers
White people’s number one freedom, in the United States of America, is the freedom to be totally ignorant of those who are other than white. We don’t have to learn about those who are other than white. And our number two freedom is the freedom to deny that we’re ignorant. Jane Elliott
two parent imbeciles
Two imbecile parents, whether related or not, have only imbecile offspring. Charles Davenport
two portal nightmare
In theory, it makes a lot of sense to combine the two operations, especially on the back end. But merging the two actual portal consumer experiences into a unified site will be a nightmare. Charlene Li