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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 sitting-still wish
I wish I could write while I'm on the road but it never works for me. I need to be sitting still. Jami Attenberg
writing emotional historical-novels
I've been told by people who write historical novels that you just sort of write the emotional truth first, the story at the core, and then you go back and research it at the end.
writing play two
I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven. Jascha Heifetz
writing animal rights
We need to reshape the movement as one of grassroots activists, and not 'professional activists' who populate the seemingly endless number of national animal rights groups. For many people, activism has become writing a check to a national group that is very pleased to have you leave it to them. Although it is important to give financial support to worthy efforts only, giving money is not enough and giving to the wrong groups can actually do more harm than good. Gary L. Francione
imagination maids directors
I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the maid, and I ask if they have eaten or rested. The best things are always out of your control. It's those moments that surpass the imagination that are thrilling. Jane Campion
imagination justice found
Justice is to be found only in the imagination. Alfred Nobel
imagination stronger
Imagination is stronger than knowledge. Albert Einstein
imagination bird heaven
In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else Ive ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination. Colleen McCullough
imagination special language
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself. Derek Walcott
imagination dependent
Is imagination dependent upon experience, or is experience influenced by imagination? Anita Shreve
imagination reason
Reason is nothing without imagination. Rene Descartes
imagination painting ifs
If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in Painting or Poetry Thomas Cole
imagination soul crowds
A moment is a mighty thing Beyond the soul's imagination; For in it, though we trace it not, How much there crowds of varied lot How much of life, life cannot see, Darts onward to eternity! Robert Montgomery
interesting church skylines
I never realised that the Edinburgh skyline was so interesting - it's gothic and very urban and there's a lot of church spires and old brownstone buildings. Jamie Bell
interesting people geek
Geeks are generally the most interesting people. Elijah Wood
interesting answers want
It's interesting because I don't ever want to ask a better question than I can answer, if that makes sense. I find that frustrating as a viewer. Compelling questions, while not easy, are easier than compelling answers. Shane Carruth
interesting way human-nature
Human beings are always going to find interesting ways of making a mess of their lives. It's human nature. Jack Nicholson
interesting provoking
To be interesting, one has to provoke. Salvador Dali
interesting wish saws
Hanson? Yeah, I've heard of them, I saw them perform and they have an interesting sound. I wish them every success. Jonathan Taylor Thomas
interesting want paige
Isn't it possible that I'm not feigning interest? That I really do want to know more about you?" "You've never been interested in me before." "You've never been interesting before." -Cassandra and Paige Kelley Armstrong
interesting would-be needs
I do not need the musing of the philosophers to tell me what I am doing. It would be more interesting to let me know why I am doing it. Louise Bourgeois
interesting people lost
The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost. Henry David Thoreau