![[When you write a play] you walk into a forest without a knife, without a compass. But . . . if you have a sense of geography, you find that you're clearing a path and getting to the right place.](/assets/img/quote-photos/when-you-write-a-play-you-walk-into-a-forest-without-a-knife-without-a-compass.jpg)
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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
knives dull saying-nothing
You're like a dull knife, just ain't cuttin', just talkin' loud and saying nothing James Brown
knives made shorts
You made your own jean shorts...with a butter knife? Richelle Mead
knives evil magic
But magic is neither good nor evil. It is a tool, like a knife. Is a knife evil? Only if the wielder is evil. Rick Riordan
knives bread
Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it. Vera Farmiga
knives use staff
One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it. Robin Hobb
knives forgiving lambs
The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher's knife. William Blake
knives bores-you people
I have a gift for enraging people, but if I ever bore you it will be with a knife. Louise Brooks
knives years skins
I can understand going for Botox at 45-50, when you want to keep things in place. But I don't understand 25 year olds going for Botox or under the knife. You don't require it. Your skin is fresh, young. Why would you do that to yourself? Kajol
knives self handle
Being angry is like picking up a knife with no handle: it is self-harming. Koo Stark
players plays win
As coaches, we tell the players to make plays and that's what they did. We made some big plays to win at the end, especially Derek Carver. John Grammer
played sure
As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride. Jessica Valenti
players step time
Purdue has some players that, in the time of need, are really going to step up and want the basketball.
players pride seen
I've never seen players take so much pride in their schoolwork. Rick Barnes
played
I've played 654 concerts. That's never been done.
played result secondary situation switching tonight
The secondary played better in many phases. We are in a situation that we are switching things up to see what the result is and tonight it was a better product.
players score three time
I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do.
played team
The whole team played well and battled hard.
played
This is not a setback. I haven't played a ton, that's true. But I've had the two years, and I know the abilities I do have. Philip Rivers