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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.
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.
historical movies played
I've played all kinds of historical characters, but they are stuck in movies that aren't their movies. Colm Feore
historical fascists century
Fascism is a religion. The twentieth century will be known in history as the century of Fascism. Benito Mussolini
historical england aspect
I love England and the historical aspect of it. Dennis Farina
historical knowledge
When I'm working on historical books, I'm much more organized. I usually read about 100 books to get the depth of knowledge I need. Marissa Moss
historical memory misleading parallels point second war
The memory of the Second World War hangs over Europe, an inescapable and irresistible point of reference. Historical parallels are usually misleading and dangerous. Antony Beevor
historical though
Though she was always working on her historical thing. Sandra Sanchez
historical different currents
Current utility and historical origin are different subjects. Stephen Jay Gould
historical winter
What can you say? It's been a historical winter that wasn't.
historical enemy gains
Is it not a rather fantastic historical irony that the torture techniques that the North Vietnamese used against McCain that forced him to offer a videotaped false confession... are now the techniques the Bush administration is using to gain "intelligence" about terror networks. How is it possible to know that everything John McCain once said on videotape for the enemy was false, because it was coerced, and yet assert that everything we torture out of terror suspects using exactly the same techniques, is true? Andrew Sullivan
pleasure pleasant pleasant-things
Do pleasant things yourself, but unpleasant things through others. Baltasar Gracian
pleasure paine
And painefull pleasure turnes to pleasing paine. Edmund Spenser
pleasure insensible depraved
He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible. Aristotle
pleasure rather sand
There's sand in the porridge and sand in the bed, / And if this is pleasure we'd rather be dead. Noel Coward
pleasure persons
I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person. Donna Leon
pleasure universe
...and the Universe, ... will explode later for your pleasure. Douglas Adams
pleasure insipid paid
Pleasure that isn't paid for is as insipid as everything else that's free. Anita Loos
pleasure ends western
Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se. David Foster Wallace
pleasure
To learn and from time to time to apply what one has learned - isn't that a pleasure? Confucius