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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. Brandon Sanderson
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. Barbara Kingsolver
writing perfect
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now. Barbara Kingsolver
who-i-am looks
I don't look like who I am. Barbara Kingsolver
who-i-am perfect desire
I started as - well, I wanted to be Poet Laureate. And I wanted to be a naturalist. That's how I began. I didn't have any desire to go and be a scientist. Louis Leakey channeled me there. I'm delighted he did. I love science. I love analyzing and making sense of all these observations. So, it was the perfect rounding off of who I was into who I am. Jane Goodall
who-i-am work-out bullets
We all bullet point our triumphs, but I am who I am because of everything you don't see on my CV. The stuff that doesn't work out teaches you how to trust your instincts and adapt. Aimee Mullins
who-i-am stuff negative
Its disheartening to read the really negative stuff, but at the same time, I know who I am, and Im comfortable with myself. Austin Carlile
who-i-am trying use
When making a record, I could done a new face pretty easily and use all these different devices to hide who I am - or who I was - which really had very little to do with what I was trying to convey. Ariel Pink
who-i-am train-wrecks trying
I just do my thing and try each show to be more honest about why I am and who I am. It's quite tricky and actually nerve-racking to do that. It's kind of a happy train wreck. Craig Ferguson
who-i-am giving people
Nobody would know me from my own description of myself; which is why, when called upon (rarely, I grant) to provide an account, I tailor it, I adapt, I try to provide an outline that can, in some way, correlate to the outline that people understand me to have -- that, I suppose, I actually have, at this point. But who I am in my head, very few people really get to see that. Almost none. It's the most precious gift I can give, to bring her out of hiding. Claire Messud
who-i-am lines faces
All of these lines across my face, tell you the story of who I am. So many stories of where I've been and how I got to where I am. Brandi Carlile
who-i-am understanding tick
Forty is better than 30. I have a better understanding of who I am, what makes me tick, what's okay and not okay. Brooke Burke
order people masters
In order to become the master, a ruler must profess to be a servant of the people. Ashwin Sanghi
order words-of-wisdom pantheism
.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow. Baruch Spinoza
order goal progress
The sacred formula of positivism: love as a principle, the order as a foundation, and progress as a goal. Auguste Comte
order imagination needs
You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist. Azar Nafisi
order giving waiting
He wanted her. He knew where to find her. He waited. It amused him to wait, because he knew that the waiting was unbearable to her. He knew that his absence bound her to him in a manner more complete and humiliating than his presence could enforce. He was giving her time to attempt an escape, in order to let her know her own helplessness when he chose to see her again. Ayn Rand
order skills pay
Your greatest asset is your earning ability, to apply your knowledge, skills in order to get results which others will pay. Brian Tracy
order cities different
Intricate minglings of different uses in cities are not a form of chaos. On the contrary, they represent a complex and highly developed form of order. Jane Jacobs
order judgement done
I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement. Juvenal
order orbit magnitude
No one knows how to make going to orbit orders of magnitude safer and orders of magnitude more affordable. Burt Rutan