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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.
gun holding human life matter taking ultimate victim whether
The taking of a human life is the ultimate crime. Irreversible. It does not matter to the victim of a murder whether the person holding a gun is 16 or 60. Bob Grant
gun bananas farms
It's like a banana farm for guns!
gun men political
Whenever destroyers appear among men, they start by destroying money, for money is men's protection and the base of a moral existence. Destroyers seize gold and leave to its owners a counterfeit pile of paper. This kills all objective standards and delivers men into the arbitrary power of an arbitrary setter of values. Gold was an objective value, an equivalent of wealth produced. Paper is a mortgage on wealth that does not exist, backed by a gun aimed at those who are expected to produce it. Ayn Rand
gun order numbers
On the morrow of each conflict I gave the categorical order to confiscate the largest possible number of weapons of every sort and kind. Benito Mussolini
gun government citizens
Never trust a government that doesn't trust its own citizens with guns. Benjamin Franklin
gun kind kind-words
You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word. Al Capone
gun long way
You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.
gun thinking hunting
I think that we should ban so-called junk guns. I think we should ban assault weapons like the weapons used here [in Fort Worth], yes. I think that the kinds of weapons that have no legitimate use for hunting or the kind of weapon that a homeowner would use, I think they should be banned, yes, those kind of weapons. Al Gore
gun ninety-nine people
Ninety-nine point nine percent of the people that are gun owners are very responsible. Jan Brewer
knives may sometimes
Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save. Edwin Arlington Robinson
knives waiting soul
Don't wait for the good woman. She doesn't exist. There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Charles Bukowski
knives errors blades
A knife is neither true nor false, but anyone impaled on its blade is in error. Rene Daumal
knives black relax
I have my favourite black knife with me all the time. It's a switchblade. It relaxes me to flick it. Taylor Momsen
knives surfing black
Annabeth came up to me. She was dressed in black camouflage with her Celestial bronze knife strapped to her arm and her laptop bag slung over her shoulder—ready for stabbing or surfing the Internet, whichever came first. Rick Riordan
knives sky white
A dispassionate white sun shone at the summit of the sky. I wanted to hone myself on it till I grew saintly and thin and essential as the blade of a knife. Sylvia Plath
knives hollywood allure
The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles. Steve Guttenberg
knives style wizards
No matter how subtle the wizard, a knife between the shoulder blades will seriously cramp his style. Steven Brust
knives tables jars
My notion of an elegant table is you don't leave the knife sticking out of the mayonnaise jar. Sue Grafton