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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 paper care
Stop them damn pictures! I don’t care what the papers write about me. My constituents can’t read. But, damn it, they can see the pictures! Boss Tweed
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.
criticism okay comfortable
I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that. Damon Lindelof
criticism hammers anvils
Harsh counsels have no effect; they are like hammers which are always repulsed by the anvil. Claude Adrien Helvetius
criticism would-be easy
It would be very easy for us to do a collection that everybody would like and not criticize. But criticism is a part of life. You have to take it. Donatella Versace
criticism may publicity
Know that the amount of criticism you receive may correlate somewhat to the amount of publicity you receive. Donald Rumsfeld
criticism poet should
Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry. Anne Stevenson
criticism too-much kind
There is far too much literary criticism of the wrong kind. That is why I never could have survived as an academic.
criticism
No iconoclast can possibly escape the severest criticism. Clarence Darrow
criticism failing strict
When strict with oneself, one rarely fails. Confucius
criticism found stills
I still found literary criticism to be a suspect activity Alison Bechdel
would-be attention known
I knew very early on that there would be quite a bit of attention: Superman is known all over the place. Brandon Routh
would-be sensible things-to-do
I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do. Jane Gardam
would-be imagine slave
There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work. Aristotle
would-be waste directors
Directing is more what I would like to get into eventually. Frankly, I feel like it would be a waste if I didn't because I've spent so much time on film sets, and I know how they work, and I love them, and I love leading them. I would like to do that as a director definitely. Daniel Radcliffe
would-be ifs one-word
If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time. Andy Goldsworthy
would-be paint ifs
If only someone else could paint what I see, it would be marvellous, because then I wouldnt have to paint at all. Alberto Giacometti
would-be quaker jew
If I were not a Jew I would be a Quaker. Albert Einstein
would-be fabric energy
Without energy life would be extinguished instantaneously, and the cellular fabric would collapse. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
would-be lasts wonderful
I worked with a writer, Kathleen Boyce. It was a wonderful experience...but I didn't expect that the last chapter would be the last chapter of Donna Karan. That was probably the biggest shock. Donna Karan