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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 i-can ifs
If I see an ending, I can work backward. Arthur Miller
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 college two
I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go so far as to call it a talent. But it scared me. I felt it was a childish thing wanting to write and that I would forget about it eventually. Ben Fountain
writing church musician
But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you thats the center of it, that is it. Its almost like theres something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if youre a songwriter that sings your material. Ben Folds
writing style literature
I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen. Carl Sandburg
ideas world chaos
Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos. Auguste Comte
ideas stories bigs
Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I don't have a big shoebox full of unfinished ideas. Brian Selznick
ideas instinct projects
In photo shoots, I rely on instinct. Which is not to say I don't bring ideas to a project or consider it beforehand. Carine Roitfeld
ideas narnia
That part of Rostrevor which overlooks Carlingford Lough is my idea of Narnia. C. S. Lewis
ideas long people
I work to promote the idea of sustainable capitalism driven by long-term considerations rather than quarterly profits, which seeks to better people's lives and the planet rather than destroy them. Al Gore
ideas people important
In many ways ideas are more important than people - they are much more permanent. Charles Kettering
ideas insane driving
Gotta head full of ideas that are driving me insane... Bob Dylan
ideas chess blitz
Blitz chess kills your ideas. Bobby Fischer
ideas long needs
In a highly critical, scarcity-based world, everyone's afraid to fail. As long as we're afraid to fail, we'll never come up with the big, bold ideas we need to solve these problems. Brene Brown
creating numbers people
The number one reason most people don't get what they want is that they don't know what they want. Rich people are totally clear that they want wealth. They are unwavering in their desire. They are fully committed to creating wealth. As long as it's legal, moral, and ethical, they will do whatever it takes to have wealth. Rich people do not send mixed messages to the universe. Poor people do. T. Harv Eker
creating people tools
Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the machines were creating are not some invasion from Mars. We create these tools to expand our own reach. Ray Kurzweil
creating life-is
Life is about creating and living experiences that are worth sharing. Steve Jobs
creating messages genre
What I like about the 'Underworld' thing is that it's a mix of cool genres, as well as creating its own message. Theo James
creating fiction world
That's part of fiction, creating a world better than the one you live in. Padgett Powell
creating anxiety atheism
The Devil's strategy for our times is to trivialize human existence and isolate us from one another while creating the delusion that the reasons are time pressures, work demands or economic anxieties. Philip Zimbardo
creating may being-true
I'm not creating the universe. I'm creating a model of the universe, which may or may not be true. Lisa Randall
creating forever honor
It's a great honor that something that you took part in creating becomes this forever object. Johnny Depp
creating government formulas
The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business. John Sununu