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reading script
I've been reading script after script after script, Jesse McCartney
reading since
I've been collecting, reading 'Peanuts' since I was five, James Sturm
reading differences people
Novels aren’t just happy escapes; they are slivers of people’s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp. Reading the right one at the right time can make all the difference. Brandon Sanderson
reading airplane seeing
Seeing someone reading something I wrote on an airplane - things like that are pretty awesome. Ben Mezrich
reading book writing
I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written. Barbara Kingsolver
reading focus solitude
Reading takes solitude and it takes focus. Augusten Burroughs
reading reality order
We do not read in order to turn great works of fiction into simplistic replicas of our own realities, we read for the pure, sensual, and unadulterated pleasure of reading. And if we do so, our reward is the discovery of the many hidden layers within these works that do not merely reflect reality but reveal a spectrum of truths, thus intrinsically going against the grain of totalitarian mindsets. Azar Nafisi
reading people library
Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading? Ayn Rand
reading enemy quitting
Are you reading your Bible?" Ah, well...I was." And then you quit." You got it." Then, you can expect to be weak on one of your flanks, and that's precisely where the Enemy will come after you with a vengeance. Jan Karon
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.
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.
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.
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.
research nonsense have-confidence
A true creator researches how to have confidence in nonsense. Burt Rutan
research might adults
I have inquired for most of my adult life about studies that might show that the death penalty is a deterrent. And I have not seen any research that would substantiate that point. Janet Reno
research culture bikers
I'm continuing to do research into biker culture. Ron Perlman
research losing stage
If you don't invest in basic research at some stage you start losing the basis of applied research. Rolf-Dieter Heuer
research ignored notes
Note that I am not proposing that AI research be ignored or less funded. Vernor Vinge
research
All my knowledge comes from research. Stan Sakai
research aphorism used
Beware of finding what you're looking for. A favorite aphorism he often used. Richard Hamming
research scientist ifs
If a scientist is not befuddled by what they're looking at, then they're not a research scientist. Neil deGrasse Tyson
research planets save-the-planet
The objective of hypertext research is to save the planet. Ted Nelson