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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.
cutting looks use
Whats the worst that could happen?! The worst that could happen is he could cut off your legs and use them to make stilts that look like legs! Aziz Ansari
cutting wire firsts
My first stringed instrument was a cigar box banjo where I cut and turned the pegs and strung the wires myself. Carl Sandburg
cutting sitting branches
There is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could not be right and he wrong any more than a stream can rise higher than its own source. When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on. C. S. Lewis
cutting guy library
There are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy overall. Al Yankovic
cutting meat vegetarian
I'm not a vegetarian, but I have cut back sharply on the meat that I eat. Al Gore
cutting practice space
The intellectual tradition of the West is very individualistic. It's not community-based. The intellectual is often thought of as a person who is alone and cut off from the world. So I have had to practice being willing to leave the space of my study to be in community, to work in community, and to be changed by community. bell hooks
cutting average years
Cutting taxes for very high income people an average of more than $100,000 a year for people that make more than a million dollars a year is not an effective way to get the economy going. Austan Goolsbee
cutting president taxes
When President George W. Bush cut taxes, he cut them for everyone. Ari Fleischer
cutting sugar owners
My forebears refused to cut the sugar cane for plantation owners, and I am recognisably a product of that background. Diane Abbott
people prior united
Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
people train year
People train for this all year like the Olympics. Michael White
people winter
People think, 'It's a winter hike, I don't have to take as much water,' but they do. Sarah Davis
people production stepped
Other people stepped up, and we got enough production to win.
people
Other people may be surprised, but I always thought I should go No. 1. Ben Gordon
people
Other people could come up with different models.
people risen
People see me and they think, "He's risen from the dead. Richard M. Nixon
people sent tape
People scoff at that, but they're legit. We sent his tape out and all 122 are on there.
people smith society
People say, 'You're like Dickens', but I'm not like Dickens. Zadie Smith is a Dickensian writer because she's writing about society now, just as Dickens was writing about his society. Sarah Waters