Related Quotes
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.
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.
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.
voice canada
The mighty voice of Canada will ever call to me. Arthur Conan Doyle
voice way findings
I would say that I'm finding my voice in more ways than one. Boz Scaggs
voice loud-voices goofy
I had a good loud voice and I wasn't afraid to be goofy or zany. Carol Burnett
voice numbers people
It's not necessarily a large number of people that affect the culture. You don't count the number of influential voices, you weigh them. A hundred people can affect the culture. Alan Lightman
voice curves dissing
I got the total package, you know, the curves, the rhythm, and the voice. I'm just the best. Miley Cyrus
voice people passionate
I'm also very passionate about charity because it helps people who don't have as loud of a voice as I do. Demi Lovato
voice always-trying havens
Every writer has his own voice. Other than that I'm always trying to do change-ups and publishers haven't always been happy about that. Dean Koontz
voice optimism hopeful
If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm! Daniel Handler
voice arrogance faces
Arrogance is in everything I do. It is in my gestures, the harshness of my voice, in the glow of my gaze, in my sinewy, tormented face. Coco Chanel
should feels
Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like. Bai Ling
should-have political stuff
At 'SNL,' I wrote political stuff, but I never felt the show should have an axe to grind. But when I left in '95, I could let my own beliefs out. Al Franken
should-have people too-late
You are always too late with a development if you are so slow that people demand it before you yourself recognize it. The research department should have foreseen what was necessary and had it ready to a point where people never knew they wanted it until it was made available to them. Charles Kettering
should mist gloomy
It was a gloomy prospect, and all that she could do was to throw a mist over it, and hope when the mist cleared away, she should see something else. Jane Austen
should-have numbers saving
When you get a checking account, you should have a savings account, and the number for the savings account should be one off of your checking account. Dan Ariely
should-have should algebra
I don't know why I should have to learn Algebra... I'm never likely to go there. Billy Connolly
should arbiter ifs
If your only arbiter of anything is money, really you should... go and rob banks. Bruce Dickinson
should-have perfect church
If I had never joined a church till I had found one that was perfect, I should never have joined one at all; and the moment I did join it, if I had found one, I should have spoiled it, for it would not have been a perfect church after I had become a member of it. Still, imperfect as it is, it is the dearest place on earthto us. Charles Spurgeon
should
Whatever we'll be forced to do later, we should be doing now. Dennis Weaver