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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 funny-things discipline
It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else. Barbara Kingsolver
self departure modesty
My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers. Arthur Conan Doyle
self vision world
Let your vision be world embracing rather than confined to your own self. Baha'u'llah
self machines schwarzenegger
One thing Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't is self-effacing. Everything has to be the biggest. His money, his muscles, his movies and his machines. Arnold Schwarzenegger
self-esteem lying matter
With fear come the lies and the justifications that, no matter how convincing, lower our self-esteem. Azar Nafisi
self-esteem self-confidence men
Self-esteem is reliance on one's power to think... The man of authentic self-confidence is the man who relies on the judgment of his own mind. Ayn Rand
self-esteem fighting soul
No value is higher than self-esteem, but you've invested it in counterfeit securities-and now your morality has caught you in a trap where you are forced to protect your self-esteem by fighting for the creed of self-destruction. The grim joke is on you: that need of self-esteem, which you're unable to explain or to define, belongs to my morality, not yours; it's the objective token of my code, it is my proof within your own soul. Ayn Rand
self self-respect quests
A quest for self-respect is proof of its lack Ayn Rand
self-esteem reality men
In order to deal with reality successfully - to pursue and achieve the values which his life requires - man needs self-esteem; he needs to be confident of his efficacy and worth. Ayn Rand
self discipline training
I was scared before every battle. That old instinct of self-preservation is a pretty basic thing, but while the action was going on some part of my mind shut off and my training and discipline took over. I did what I had to do. Audie Murphy
doubted people
People doubted us all year. Now they're getting on the bandwagon. Ben McGrath
doubt easy situation
The situation is not easy ... but I don't doubt that we will find a solution, Javier Solana
doubt system
The system is flawed, no doubt about it, Scott Reid
doubt
The omissions are performance-based ? there's no doubt about that, Trevor Hohns
doubt iq mentally none
After 20 years of evaluations, none of which put his IQ over 70 and some that put his IQ in the 50s there is no doubt he is mentally retarded. Michael Charlton
doubt employment knowing language looking measured mind pause
After looking at the employment numbers, there is no doubt in my mind that the measured language remains. Knowing what we know now, there's no pause in 2005. Jack Ablin
doubt gotten hit joe
Actually, Joe was the one who congratulated me, ... And I said: 'For what? I know ain't gotten a hit in a while.' But it's exciting, no doubt about it. Jason Giambi
doubt far guarded museum shot sparks
Sparks shot that one from the museum some place. Even if we were man-to-man, I doubt we would have guarded him that far out. Dave Odom
doubt eventually group mind takes team time title together
Sometimes, when you have a new coach, a new system, a new group of guys, it takes time to jell together, ... But there's no doubt in my mind that we're eventually going to come together as a team and make that title run. Ben Wallace