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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.
writing important eternal
Write only of what is important and eternal. Anton Chekhov
writing intelligent men
If an intelligent, educated, and healthy man begins to complain of his lot and go down-hill, there is nothing for him to do but to go on down until he reaches the bottom--there is no hope for him. Where could my salvation come from? How can I save myself? I cannot drink, because it makes my head ache. I never could write bad poetry. I cannot pray for strength and see anything lofty in the languor of my soul. Laziness is laziness and weakness weakness. I can find no other names for them. I am lost, I am lost; there is no doubt of that.
different stage persons
You're definitely a different person at different stages in your life. Ben Harper
different firsts used
I used to wear different rings when I first got called Ringo in about 19, about, umm, '59 I got called Ringo. Ringo Starr
different exciting different-things
There's something quite exciting when you have a history with somebody and you see them do new and different things. Tim Burton
different kind poet
I like to mix it up, because the kind of comments you can get from a fiction writer about your poetry are going to be very different than what you'll get from a poet. Sandra Cisneros
different film filmmaker
I know every film is different. Every filmmaker is different and works differently. Rachel Maddow
different done way
How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation. Niccolo Machiavelli
different reason position
We are all put in different positions for different reasons. Kim Alexis
different kind performers
Most performers reinvent themselves. Madonna, Michael Jackson, P. Diddy. They reinvent themselves into different kinds of images. Elvis [Presley] was always himself, an original, and he never tried to be anything but that. Pat Boone
different language advantage
I do swear a lot, but the advantage is that having played abroad, I can choose a different language from the referee's. Jurgen Klinsmann
praise
Praise must be learned in private before it is exhibited in public. Myles Munroe
praised
There was ever more in him to be praised than to be pardoned. Ben Jonson
praise
Praise does wonders for our sense of hearing. Arnold H. Glasow