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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 way controversy
There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write. Ben Mezrich
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 perfect
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
writing habit latter
I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter. Barbara Mertz
writing names wave
We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away. Augustus
writing thinking secret
The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work. Augusten Burroughs
afterlife babies chance guys happened later might novel speculate three
I have a novel that I can write. It's about three soldiers from Somalia. Some babies have been disappearing up on 144th Street, and I speculate later on what happened to them and how they might have been got back. These guys are dead, all three, and they have a chance in the afterlife to do something they should have done when they were alive. Gil Scott-Heron
afterlife black way
I felt the question of the afterlife was the black hole of the personal universe: something for which substantial proof of existence had been offered but which had not yet been explored in the proper way by scientists and philosophers. Raymond Moody
afterlife artists creative fame hall johnson led magic michael office powerful seventh year
Magic Johnson was in the seventh year of his Hall of Fame career when thoughts of his basketball afterlife led him to the office of uber-executive Michael Ovitz, co-founder of Creative Artists Agency, Hollywood's most powerful agency. Don Yaeger
afterlife die life
Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you die tomorrow. Ali ibn Abi Talib
afterlife vegan osama-bin-laden
There's already been some trouble for Osama bin Laden in the afterlife. There was a mix up and he was greeted by 72 vegans. David Letterman
afterlife what-matters joy
I'm using the afterlife as a backdrop against which to explore the joys and complexities of being human - it turns out that it's a great lens with which to understand what matters to us. David Eagleman
firsts said wanted
I always said that though I was the first, I wanted to be the first of many. Barbara Mikulski
firsts formula-1 auto-racing
Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose. Ayrton Senna
firsts feels taggart
Do it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart Ayn Rand
firsts
You are always free to choose what you do first, what you do second, and what you do not do at all Brian Tracy
firsts put-first-things-first thrown
Put first things first and second things are thrown in. Put second things first and you lose both first and second things. C. S. Lewis
firsts bars bills
When I come out and sing the first few bars of Bill Bailey, it's very exciting Bobby Darin
firsts saws migraine
After I saw the first thing I ever did, I got a migraine. Claire Forlani
firsts
The only thing better than going to Pitcairn in the first place, is going again. Billy Campbell
firsts succeed motto
A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried. Billy Collins