Related Quotes
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.
tunnels yelling media
In Turkey, the media wait for you outside. You go down to them, in tunnel, and sometimes, people are yelling and throwing things. They throw coins. I get hit in the head. Bleeding. There is blood. Mehmet Okur
tunnels feelings magic
The magic's back and we're in a time tunnel, feeling like when we were in our 20s back in the 1970s. Peter Criss
tunnels wind strategy
Future forecasting is all about testing strategies - it's like a wind tunnel. Jamais Cascio
tunnels trash ends
I'm going to end up like one of those old weirdos who lives in a network of tunnels burrowed through trash - yet I do not fear this. Will Self
tunnels needs i-need-him
I need him to know that I came for him. I need him to know that somehow, at some point in the tunnels, I began to love him. Lauren Oliver
wind sky one-day
Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next, are few enough to fit in a bucket, with room enough left to rattle like brittle brush in a dry wind.
window old-time swear
If one more person tells me this is just like old times, I swear I'll jump out the window. Buster Keaton
wind white goes-on
There's no place you can go on the prairie that you don't hear the white noise of the wind, steady and rough as surf curling along a non-existant shore. Diane Ackerman
wind sail cant-change
You can't change the wind but you can set your sails. Billie Joe Armstrong
wind play tennis
When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis. Chris Evert
wind political ugly
I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction. Barack Obama
wind rivers white
I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with strips of emerald cultivation either side. Away from the cliffs was the desert. There was no sound but the wind, whirring through thorns and whistling through dead grass, and no other sign of life but a hawk, and a black beetle easing over white stones. Bruce Chatwin
wind feet nuclear
We must not let ourselves be swept off our feet in horror at the danger of nuclear power. Nuclear power is not infinitely dangerous. It's just dangerous, much as coal mines, petrol repositories, fossil-fuel burning and wind turbines are dangerous. David J. C. MacKay
wind risk investing
Someone who seeks low-risk investments never really feels investing is safe and someone who is always right eventually winds up wrong Robert Kiyosaki