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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. Brandon Sanderson
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. Barbara Kingsolver
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. Barbara Kingsolver
mind money
Sometimes your mind lets you do things with your money that make no sense. Suze Orman
mind quite wayne williams
Quite frankly, I don't think Wayne Williams is responsible for anything, ... I don't think he did anything. I made up my mind with that 20 years ago, and I still feel that way. Louis Graham
mind shot
That shot he's got to obliterate from his mind a little bit. Mark Cox
mind stories
A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind. Brandon Sanderson
mind weakness morality
He that can carp in the most eloquent or acute manner at the weakness of the human mind is held by his fellows as almost divine. Baruch Spinoza
mind unions whole
The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature. Baruch Spinoza
mind body limits
Whatever increases, decreases, limits or extends the body's power of action, increases decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action. And whatever increases, decreases, limits, or extends the mind's power of action, also increases, decreases, limits, or extends the body's power of action. Baruch Spinoza
mind perceive greater
The less the mind understands and the more things it perceives, the greater its power of feigning is; and the more things it understands, the more that power is diminished. Baruch Spinoza
mind important odd
It was odd how one found oneself making trivial conversation on important occasions. Perhaps it was because one could not say what was really in one's mind. Barbara Pym
wants
Now, I know everyone wants to see turtles. What else? Lyle Thomas
wanting
I've been wanting him for a long time. Now that I've got him, I can't take him off the court. Pat Riley
want pay attention
If you want more money, don't pay attention to the money. Pay attention to the thing that makes the money. Brandon Steiner
want humans seems
At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have. For some, this is power. For me, it is peace. Brandon Sanderson
want living-things
Nothing can stop a living thing that wants to be free Aravind Adiga
want extraordinary-life extraordinary
Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life. Augustus
want aging castro
I just don't want to die the same day Castro dies Art Buchwald
want nervous breakdown
A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it. Art Buchwald
want reverence feels
It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own. Ayn Rand