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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 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 should more-money
A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)? Brian Aldiss
writing way better-person
the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person. Brenda Ueland
writing exercise perspective
The writing of an assay-type poem or a poem investigating perspective isn't an exercise of rational or strategic mind. Poems for me are acts of small or large desperation. They grapple with surfaces too steep to walk in any other way, yet which have to be traveled. Jane Hirshfield
writing sitting-still wish
I wish I could write while I'm on the road but it never works for me. I need to be sitting still. Jami Attenberg
writing emotional historical-novels
I've been told by people who write historical novels that you just sort of write the emotional truth first, the story at the core, and then you go back and research it at the end. Jami Attenberg
writing should performing
Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform. bell hooks
writing fool boring
I never learned to read or write music. Never wanted to fool with scales. That was boring, forced. The music I heard was free - flowing. Barry White
media mediocre
'Media' is the plural for 'mediocre'. Rene Saguisag
media creative healthy
You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky. Tony Blair
media may social
Build it, and they will come" only works in the movies. Social Media is a "build it, nurture it, engage them, and they may come and stay. Seth Godin
media government political
...the mass media. What are they? They're huge corporations, massive corporations, linked up with even bigger corporations. They sell audiences to other businesses, namely advertisers. So when you turn on the television set, CBS doesn't make any money. They make money from the advertisers. You're the product that they're selling, and the same is true of the daily newspaper. They're huge corporations, selling audiences, potential consumers, to other businesses, all linked up closely to the government, especially the big media. What picture of the world do you expect them to present? Noam Chomsky
media political trying
Democracy was regarded as entering into a crisis in the 1960s. The crisis was that large segments of the population were becoming organized and active and trying to participate in the political arena. Noam Chomsky
media people political
People have to be atomized and segregated and alone. They're not supposed to organize, because then they might be something beyond spectators of action. They might actually be participants if many people with limited resources could get together to enter the political arena. That's really threatening. Noam Chomsky
media cash cows
The money in politics is a cash cow for the media. Noam Chomsky
media america government
For heaven's sakes, every parent in America is checking social media and every employer is as well, but our government can't do it. Carly Fiorina
media social-media social
I'm not into social media. I'm like from another century. Eva Green
voice people passionate
I'm also very passionate about charity because it helps people who don't have as loud of a voice as I do. Demi Lovato
voice optimism hopeful
If an optimist had his left arm chewed off by an alligator, he might say in a pleasant and hopeful voice, "Well this isn't too bad, I don't have a left arm anymore but at least nobody will ever ask me if I'm left-handed or right-handed," but most of us would say something more along the lines of, "Aaaaaa! My arm! My arm! Daniel Handler
voice economy geneva
There are no European voices at Geneva, there are no European voices at START. E. P. Thompson
voice design mind
The next time you see a person with a composed face and a soft voice, remember that inside her mind she might be solving an equation, composing a sonnet, designing a hat. She might, that is, be deploying the power of quiet. Susan Cain
voice feminism way
Depending on which side of the fence you're on, you could argue that the sexual liberation of the late '60s, led to women being emancipated in some ways. That they found a voice during that time, with feminism. It's complicated. Steve Coogan
voice spirit abandon
There's the physical life and the voice, but at some point you abandon all of that, you know what the spirit of the person is and you let it descend and just get on with it. Stephen Frears
voice shadow generations
Great orators who are not also great writers become very indistinct shadows to the generations following them. The spell vanishes with the voice. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
voice intuition secret
Doreen had intuition. Everything she said was like a secret voice speaking straight out of my own bones. Sylvia Plath
voice soul dull
It takes a lot of energy to dull the soul and not hear its voice Susan L. Taylor