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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.
social worker
The social worker told her there was hope. Denise Monteiro
social workers
This is not about me. It's just that social workers are needed. ... It really does a lot of good. Connie Smith
social social-change humiliate
Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. Cesar Chavez
social somebody
You can tell if someone is about social intercourse or just about browbeating somebody with their opinion. It's no fun arguing with a closed-minded person. John Schneider
social badges idle
The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status. Dorothy L. Sayers
social contracts wells
Well, let's go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract. Chuck Hagel
social profit conscience
a social conscience is not incompatible with profit. Anita Roddick
social starting very-good
If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point. Rob Portman
social-issues
As far as my work for causes or social issues, that's something I'm doing as a private citizen. Rob Lowe
century deep demands encourage experience history interested passionate pursue science
The things you're passionate about and interested in, get experience with them by going deep on projects. I would encourage science projects, plays. Pursue science, math, writing, history - the 21st century demands a lot of cross-disciplinary thinking. Megan Smith
century history social
After all, the history of the 20th century is the history of social revolutions. Ernest Mandel
century conditions country quarter rebuild refugees remains return safety
After more than a quarter of a century of misrule, much still remains to be done to rebuild the country. Overall, the conditions are in place for refugees to return to their country in safety and dignity.
century information nation online sure
Once you're online and you see its power, you never go back. What we want to make sure of is that the nation has 21st century infrastructure for information for low-income people. Ben Hecht
century children property regarding seeing somewhere stopped twentieth
Somewhere in the twentieth century we stopped regarding children as property and started seeing them as people. Kate Adie
century continues john market marks react stock watch
The stock market continues to react to John Q. Public. We used to watch century marks in the Dow. Now we watch millenniums.
century good poem robert trust wonderful wrote
The wonderful 17th Century poet, Robert Herrick, wrote a poem entitled, 'To Live Merrily and to Trust to Good Verses.' Easy to say, Robert Herrick; not always easy to do. But it's a good slogan, I think. Robert Pinsky
century dramatic good political seen shift
We've seen a dramatic shift in the '80s and '90s and into this century with more political involvement by women, and I think that's a good thing.
century components imagination romantic time tradition
There's the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time with that tradition. And it's had a difficult time with many components of the Romantic imagination because of modernism. Twyla Tharp