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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 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. 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 names wave
We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away. Augustus
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
giving lauren thank
Thank you for giving us back Lauren and Steve, John Rice
giving people challenges
A lot of the time, people want to hear from someone like myself. They want to give it a shot. It's challenging, and it's driven me more than discouraged me. Archie Panjabi
giving-up dont-give-up beats
It's hard to beat somebody when they don't give up. Babe Ruth
giving-up real struggle
The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure....you are above everything distressing. Baruch Spinoza
giving pleasure
It can never be wrong to give pleasure. Augustine Birrell
giving be-who-you-are want
What does dance give you? The freedom to be who you are and do what you want to do. Arthur Mitchell
giving advice curious
I've always tried to maintain that I don't have any advice to give. I'm a curious observer. Aziz Ansari
giving lectures stranger
[W]hatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger. Ayelet Waldman
giving-up struggle want
Don't ever give up what you want in life. The struggle is worth it. Ayn Rand
perfect priorities decision
You can't be 100% perfect, but try to evaluate things and do what's right. If you just make every effort to do the right thing, you'll come out ok. It comes down to priorities and making good decisions. Archie Manning
perfect
All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved. Jane Fonda
perfect long long-time
We're not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that. Jane Fonda
perfect age perfect-happiness
To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well Jane Austen
perfect goal rough-drafts
Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect. Jane Smiley
perfect no-friends killers
The perfect killer has no friends. Only targets. Brent Weeks
perfect sick stage
You gotta know when it's time to hang up. But when I finally go, let me go out on stage, my perfect ending. Don't let me go when I'm sick or asleep. Let me be in motion. Bobby Womack
perfect church sin
The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it. Charles Spurgeon
perfect virtue habit
Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit. Aristotle