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reading script
I've been reading script after script after script, Jesse McCartney
reading since
I've been collecting, reading 'Peanuts' since I was five, James Sturm
reading differences people
Novels aren’t just happy escapes; they are slivers of people’s souls, nailed to the pages, dripping ink from veins of wood pulp. Reading the right one at the right time can make all the difference. Brandon Sanderson
reading airplane seeing
Seeing someone reading something I wrote on an airplane - things like that are pretty awesome. Ben Mezrich
reading book writing
I learned to write by reading the kind of books I wished I'd written. Barbara Kingsolver
reading focus solitude
Reading takes solitude and it takes focus. Augusten Burroughs
reading reality order
We do not read in order to turn great works of fiction into simplistic replicas of our own realities, we read for the pure, sensual, and unadulterated pleasure of reading. And if we do so, our reward is the discovery of the many hidden layers within these works that do not merely reflect reality but reveal a spectrum of truths, thus intrinsically going against the grain of totalitarian mindsets. Azar Nafisi
reading people library
Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading? Ayn Rand
reading years eight
Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats's letters and his poems. The letters were fresh, intimate and irreverent, as though he were present and speaking. The Keats spell went very deep for me. Jane Campion
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.
writing two my-family
I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.
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.
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.
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.
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.
math engineering should-have
I didn't do the engineering, and I didn't do the math, because I thought I understood what was going on and I thought I made a good rig. But I was wrong. I should have done it. Jamie Hyneman
math hands numbers
Arithmetic is numbers you squeeze from your head to your hand to your pencil to your paper till you get the answer. Carl Sandburg
math two wish
Music has a lot in common with mathematics. But in music, two and two need not make four: they add up to whatever you wish. Jascha Heifetz
math strange wonderful
I have discovered such wonderful things that I was amazed... Out of nothing I have created a strange new universe.
math perfect damage
Perfect clarity would profit the intellect but damage the will. Blaise Pascal
math intuition logic
When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
math circles strange
There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel. Aristotle
math doors car
If you've never programmed a computer, you should. There's nothing like it in the whole world. When you program a computer, it does exactly what you tell it to do. It's like designing a machine — any machine, like a car, like a faucet, like a gas-hinge for a door — using math and instructions. It's awesome in the truest sense: it can fill you with awe. Cory Doctorow
math numbers praying
Pray tell us, what's your favorite number? Abraham Verghese