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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.
culture hang people position reach sit society time word
The word 'retirement' doesn't really sit well with me. There comes a time when you reach a position in society or culture where people will not let you retire. You can say, 'Alright, I'm going to hang up my guitar,' but people will still not let you retire. Kirk Hammett
culture chiefs politeness
Politeness is the chief sign of culture. Baltasar Gracian
culture
Culture is everything you don't have to do. Brian Eno
culture comic pops
As a comic, I used to know more about pop culture. Brian Posehn
culture talent insolence
Talent is culture with insolence. Aristotle
culture deep embedded
embedded deep in the culture of the country. Arlen Specter
culture dairy english food grips last
English food in the last 30 years has come to grips with English products, their dairy culture and their cheeses and their creams and their seafood. Mario Batali
culture eagles
Eagles are very important to me and my culture. Georgia Perez
culture fits mexico race
The race fits the culture of New Mexico well.
virtue masters prudence
There must be in prudence also some master virtue.
virtue martyr preacher
Virtue has many preachers, but few martyrs.
virtue foolish theory
Leave your theories. All theories, you see, even those of virtue, are bad, foolish, mischievous. Romain Rolland
virtue circumstances prudence
Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place. John Milton
virtue offense rejecting
I don't know exactly what covetous is, but in my experience it is not so much desiring someone else's virtue or happiness as rejecting it, taking offense at the beauty of it. Marilynne Robinson
virtue christ easy
It would not be easy even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract into the concrete, than to endeavor so to live that Christ would approve our life. John Stuart Mill
virtue goddess getting-along
Society has sacrificed its virtues to the Goddess of Getting Along. John Ruskin
virtue nobility
As you come to seek and see the virtues and strengths and nobilities of others, you begin to seek and see them in yourself also. Gary Zukav
virtue ifs wrongdoing
If one must do a wrong, it's best to do it pursuing power-otherwise, let's have virtue. Euripides