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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 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 aids alliteration
Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid. Charles Churchill
writing imagination fiction
Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not just the intellect, but the imagination. Charles Colson
writing men thinking
People complain of the unequal distribution of wealth [but it is a far greater] injustice that any one man should have the power to write so many brilliant essays... There is no one who writes like [Thomas Huxley]. Charles Darwin
writing suspense ends
Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself. Jane Austen
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 playing-chess chess
All I want to do, ever, is play chess. Bobby Fischer
player europe nba
The NBA has more than 435 players and there are at least 100-some players doing more than expected. Shaq is doing a lot. Dwight Howard, [Manu] Ginobli. Dirk [Nowitzki] is doing a lot, and not just in Europe; he's reaching out to Africa and all other places. Dikembe Mutombo
play chess willing
Let's play. I'm willing to play anywhere. Bobby Fischer
play chess
You are never too old to play chess! 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 reason no-reason
Evil requires no reason. Alberto Manguel
evil goodness
Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable. E. M. Forster
evil void movement
Evil is movement towards void. Don DeLillo
evil soul loved-ones
As you sell your soul and sow your seeds, and you wound yourself and your loved ones bleed. And your habits grow and your conscience feeds, on all that you thought you should be. Don McLean
evil speak
Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead." Diogenes
evil world invisible-monsters
Find good in what the world says is evil. Chuck Palahniuk
evil
She's so small, yet she contains so much evil. Christopher Moore
evil giving economy
A check on itself, evil subserves the economies of good, as it were a condiment to give relish to good. Amos Bronson Alcott