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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
achievement actual athletic helping interested people secondary
The thing that got me interested was helping the people who need help -- the athletic achievement is kind of secondary to the actual fundraising. Zach Schade
achievement athletic bones considered define game greatest helped humbling individual players
I've made no bones about it, that if this would happen, it would be the greatest individual athletic achievement of my life. When I think of all the great players who have played, to be considered one of the players that helped define the game itself, it is a humbling experience. Troy Aikman
achievement along great proud
I wanted to do something, along with some other guys, because it is the 20th anniversary. It is a great accomplishment and we were proud to be a part of it.
achievement meet nice points scoring
Scoring 44 points in this big of a meet is a nice accomplishment. We did a lot of things well today.
achievement missed promises scale seems sure
The scale of this achievement seems to have been missed by some, ... So let's make sure we live up to our promises to the world's poor. Kofi Annan
achievement good playing playoffs won
It would be a good achievement for us. If we won (the trophy), it would just be something else that we could take into the playoffs with us, but the more important thing for us is to be playing well. Chris Phillips
achievement hold small
It would give us something to hold onto. We can't say, 'Wow, if we do this, we'll make the playoffs,' but to be a top-10 defense, that's no small accomplishment at all. Victor Hobson
achievement rotten faults
It's true that there's no such thing as free will. We can't help what we are or what we do. It's not our fault. Nobody's to blame for anything. It's all in your background ... and your glands. If you're good, that's no achievement of yours - you were lucky in your glands. If you're rotten, nobody should punish you - you were unlucky, that's all. Ayn Rand
achievement external freedom internal
Freedom is an internal achievement rather than an external adjustment. Powell Clayton
pieces puzzle
We feel we have all the pieces of the puzzle here. W. S. Gilbert
pieces saw
We saw them getting little pieces of mussels that got broken.
pieces puzzles questioned ran
We've questioned everyone we could, ran down every lead, and we still have no answers. What can we do? There are pieces of these puzzles missing, and we just don't have them yet.
pieces too-much elements
Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much. Alejandro Amenabar
pieces oneself
To have a sense of history one must consider oneself a piece of history.... Alfred Kazin
pieces networking hardware
What makes a great standalone piece of hardware is not the same thing as what makes a great networking device. One can work as an essentially closed system. The other is absolutely dependent on its openness. Douglas Rushkoff
pieces made feels
The one Bach piece I learnt made me feel I was being repeatedly hit on the head with a teaspoon. Dodie Smith
pieces may way
I, and all the complex things around me, exist only because many things were assembled in a very precise way. The 'emergent' properties are not magical. They are really there and eventually they may start re-arranging the environments that generated them. But they don't exist 'in' the bits and pieces that made them; they emerge from the arrangement of those bits and pieces in very precise ways. And that is also true of the emergent entities known as "you" and "me". David Christian
pieces world entertainment
The Sophists' paradoxical talk pieces and their public debates were entertainment in 5th century Greece. And in that world, Socrates was an entertainer. David Antin