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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.
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.
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.
two old-friends wish
So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned. - Sherlock Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle
two exciting show-business
That's what I loved about show business, no two days were alike. It's an exciting life. Barbara Mandrell
two together legends
Look how Bill Cohen and George Mitchell worked together. It's the stuff of legends. And now it's the stuff of almost ancient history, regrettably, but the way those two really worked together. Barbara Mikulski
two half half-truth
Two half truths do not make a truth. Arthur Koestler
two issues empathy
There are two side to every issue. Ayn Rand
two america important
It is likely that America will be more important during the next century or two, but after that it may well be the turn of China. Bertrand Russell
two gentleman consideration
Propriety of manners, and consideration for others, are the two main characteristics of a gentleman. Benjamin Disraeli
two people different
People never understood that there was Brian and The Boz. They were two completely different people. Brian Bosworth
two white numbers
White people’s number one freedom, in the United States of America, is the freedom to be totally ignorant of those who are other than white. We don’t have to learn about those who are other than white. And our number two freedom is the freedom to deny that we’re ignorant. Jane Elliott
hours staff test training work
During the Games, the test laboratories will work for 24 hours a day, and all the staff are under training now. Liu Peng
hours life mayor mean nineteen privileged
I've been doing nineteen hours a day on London, nothing else, I mean this has been my whole life, and writing has been put on one side, and if I'm privileged enough to be the Mayor of this city, then I will not write again. Jeffrey Archer
hours lots question work
I find it very difficult to say no when I'm in Ireland. You do end up going around doing lots of events and things and not getting work done, and it's not just a question of having hours at the desk.
hours january radio responds since spent telescope trying
First, we spent hundreds of hours since January 2003 trying to characterize how the telescope responds to radio waves.
hours
Be where the acting is. I live in Houston. Dallas is 4 1/2 hours away. I let them know there's no difference. Vic Mignogna
hours impressed meet pastime spend writers
I myself am pathetically impressed when I meet writers of very long novels. How can they spend so many hundreds of hours at the miserable, lonely pastime of creating fiction? Arthur Smith
hours keeps love minutes sit streets work
I don't love acting. How can you love something when you sit around 12 hours a day and work 10 minutes a day? I'm just doing it because it keeps me off the streets and out of jail. Jonathan Rhys Meyers
hours people
We've had more people come in the first two hours than we did all week.
hours summer year
We'll have to have summer hours year round.