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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
science views scientific-method
Induction for deduction, with a view to construction. Auguste Comte
science reality technology
Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky. Arthur Koestler
science mathematical-logic ideas
All exact science is dominated by the idea of approximation. Bertrand Russell
science giving development
Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher, and this development, we are assured, is indubitably an advance. Unfortunately it is the philosopher, not the protozoon, who gives us this assurance. Bertrand Russell
science wants
Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is. Octavia E. Butler
science supposing-that forever
It is characteristic of the unlearned that they are forever proposing something which is old, and because it has recently come to their own attention, supposing it to be new. Calvin Coolidge
science ideas errors
People see the wrongness in an idea much quicker that the rightness. Charles Kettering
science firsts honest
Every honest researcher I know admits he's just a professional amateur. He's doing whatever he's doing for the first time. That makes him an amateur. He has sense enough to know that he's going to have a lot of trouble, so that makes him a professional. Charles Kettering
science would-be mould
If every one were cast in the same mould, there would be no such thing as beauty. Charles Darwin
ideas rights affair
I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms Boris Yeltsin
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 quality affected
Your success will be affected by the quality and quantity of new ideas you suggest. Brian Tracy
ideas wealth source
Ideas will be the major source of new wealth. Brian Tracy
ideas fountain knows
You do not know what is in you - an inexhaustible fountain of ideas. Brenda Ueland
ideas superhero world
For me, Superman's greatest contribution has never been the superhero part: it's the Clark Kent part - the idea that any of us, in all our ordinariness, can change the world. Brad Meltzer
ideas old-buildings history
Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings. Jane Jacobs
ideas old-buildings needs
New ideas often need old buildings. Jane Jacobs