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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 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. Barbara Kingsolver
mind money
Sometimes your mind lets you do things with your money that make no sense. Suze Orman
mind quite wayne williams
Quite frankly, I don't think Wayne Williams is responsible for anything, ... I don't think he did anything. I made up my mind with that 20 years ago, and I still feel that way. Louis Graham
mind shot
That shot he's got to obliterate from his mind a little bit. Mark Cox
mind stories
A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind. Brandon Sanderson
mind weakness morality
He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine. Baruch Spinoza
mind unions whole
The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature. Baruch Spinoza
mind body limits
Whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the body's power of action, increases decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action. And whatever increases, decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action, also increases, decreases, limits, or extends the body's power of action. Baruch Spinoza
mind perceive greater
The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is; and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished. Baruch Spinoza
mind important odd
It was odd how one found oneself making trivial conversation on important occasions. Perhaps it was because one could not say what was really in one's mind. Barbara Pym
tongue should right-words
We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip over. Brigid Brophy
tongue pipe cheeks
When you have a pipe salesman with a business called Macabee Pipes, I'd say you've got your tongue planted firmly in your cheek. Edward Norton
tongue way obscure
Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand. E. B. White
tongue asparagus rich
Let there be seasons so that our tongues will be rich in asparagus and limes. Anne Sexton
tongue habitat natural
The natural habitat of the tongue is the left cheek. Red Smith
tongue genius excess
It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues. V. S. Pritchett
tongue hours danger
Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue. Tacitus
tongue explanation clear
Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, But love unexplained is clearer. Rumi
tongue
Those women like to see their tongues dance. Ray Bradbury