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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 perfect
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now. Barbara Kingsolver
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 ideas factual
I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be factual. Jan Morris
writing discovery language
No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language. Benjamin Disraeli
played sure
As a kid, I wasn't sure that I would ever get married - I was not the kind of little girl who played at being a bride. Jessica Valenti
played
I've played 654 concerts. That's never been done. Charles Terry
players score three time
I've never had three players at the same time who can score like they do. Pete Hald
play female different
My only problem is finding a way to play my fortieth fallen female in a different way from my thirty-ninth. Barbara Stanwyck
play acting too-much
I don't do method acting. If I play a farmer, I'm not gonna spend 3 weeks on a chicken farm. That's a bit too much for me. Carice van Houten
player thinking games
But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. C. S. Lewis
play chess next
Normally we'd draw the curtain here, but I just wanted to see what he'd play next. Bobby Fischer
play lessons want
For the first lesson, I want you to play over every column of Modern Chess Openings, including the footnotes. And for the next lesson, I want you to do it again. Bobby Fischer
play genius pieces
I object to being called a chess genius, because I consider myself to be an all around genius, who just happens to play chess, which is rather different. A piece of garbage like Kasparov might be called a chess genius, but he is like an idiot savant, outside of chess he knows nothing. Bobby Fischer
evil moments being-true
Evil is the moment when I lack the strength to be true to the Good that compels me. Alain Badiou
evil politics
There they are. See no evil, hear no evil, and...evil. Bob Dole
evil suspects knows
They that know no evil will suspect none. Ben Jonson
evil orator speakers-and-speaking
An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law. Source Unknown
evil knew
He knew the lie of silence to be as evil as the lie of speech. Gilbert Parker
evil opportunity temptation triumph
Every temptation is an opportunity to triumph over evil. Marc Williams
evil ill antidote
Every evil has its good, and every ill an antidote. Dorothea Dix
evil needs causes
I need you by me, beside me, to guide me, to hold me, to scold me, cause when I'm bad, I'm so, so bad. Donna Summer
evil use bagels
I've said this before, and I say it again. Bagels can be an enormous power for good or for evil. It is up to us to decide how we will use them. Daniel Pinkwater