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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 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. Barbara Kingsolver
writing perfect
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now. Barbara Kingsolver
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 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
writing down-and ritual
My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day. Augusten Burroughs
writing names errors
I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of the twentieth century. Perhaps in the end he will conclude that the multitude of errors committed in the name of Munich may exceed the original error of 1938. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
writing language clarity
Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
order people masters
In order to become the master, a ruler must profess to be a servant of the people. Ashwin Sanghi
order words-of-wisdom pantheism
.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow. Baruch Spinoza
order judgement done
I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement. Juvenal
order orbit magnitude
No one knows how to make going to orbit orders of magnitude safer and orders of magnitude more affordable. Burt Rutan
order democracy needs
In order to solve the climate crisis, we need to solve the democracy crisis. Al Gore
order people changed
Some say society must change in order to change people. No, people must be changed in order to change society. Charles Colson
order race unhappy
Shame is an unhappy emotion invented by pietists in order to exploit the human race. Blake Edwards
order envy may
It is good to vary in order that you may frustrate the curious, especially those who envy you. Baltasar Gracian
order community pits
The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes. Arundhati Roy
trying speak live-by
I try to live by the principles the Bible speaks on. Brandon Marshall
trying why-not mindset
I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally? Brad Paisley
trying needs venture-capitalists
While I'm a venture capitalist who invests in early-stage tech companies, I often feel like a professional emailer and conference call maker. I try to spend most of my time doing whatever the companies we are investors in need me to do. Brad Feld
trying borders hopeless
It is hopeless to try to convert some borders into seams. Jane Jacobs
trying attention want
Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at least want to try to stay with -- whatever is going on. Jane Hirshfield
trying worried projects
I haven't been worried about my image so much as I have been trying to find projects to push myself further than before. Cameron Diaz
trying students form
In my introductory course, Anthropology 160, the Forms of Folklore, I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed. Alan Dundes
trying next
I've never been into what am I going to do next, trying to reinvent myself. Janet Jackson
trying able hearing
I've never just been able to be alone, and I'm obsessed with being alone and hearing my thoughts. I'm trying to take this alone time — the five minutes I do have a day — to learn as much as I can. Miley Cyrus