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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.
who-i-am looks
I don't look like who I am.
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
singing portugal matter
The first poem in The Beauty holds a woman in Portugal in a wheelchair singing, with great power, a fado. I have never seen this or heard of it, the image simply arrived. But surely such a thing has happened. And it matters to me that it has, or could. Jane Hirshfield
singing acting firsts
I'll probably do a lot of acting first, then go to singing, but I am going to definitely sing someday. So when I do start singing, buy my album! Jamie Lynn Spears
singing i-can
I can't talk about my singing; I'm inside it. How can you describe something you're inside of? Janis Joplin
singing film justin
Justin Timberlake is terrific in this film. I told him it's time to stop singing. Bruce Willis
singing sitting thinking though tribute
Though it's a tribute to her, ... I'm not sitting there thinking 'How can I do it just like her' when I'm singing these songs. Linda Eder
singing opera trouble
The trouble with the opera is there's always to much singing. Claude Debussy
singing
I really love singing. Andrea Corr
singing wonderful feels
Singing provides a true sense of lightheartedness. If I sing when I am alone, I feel wonderful. It's freedom. Andrea Bocelli
singing heartbeat heard
If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat. Amy Winehouse