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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. Jami Attenberg
writing important eternal
Write only of what is important and eternal. Anton Chekhov
writing intelligent men
If an intelligent, educated, and healthy man begins to complain of his lot and go down-hill, there is nothing for him to do but to go on down until he reaches the bottom--there is no hope for him. Where could my salvation come from? How can I save myself? I cannot drink, because it makes my head ache. I never could write bad poetry. I cannot pray for strength and see anything lofty in the languor of my soul. Laziness is laziness and weakness weakness. I can find no other names for them. I am lost, I am lost; there is no doubt of that. Anton Chekhov
safe world metaphor
Unless you are educated in metaphor, you are not safe to be let loose in the world. Robert Frost
safety feelings world
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world. Thomas Guthrie
safe graves friends-again
We shall see our friends again. We can lay them in the grave; we know they are safe with God. Matthew Simpson
safety accidents
Don't learn safety by accident. Jerry Smith
safety ballots
The ballot is the only safety. Frederick Douglass
safety might triggers
There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch. Harold MacMillan
safe
Better safe than exsanguinated. Jim Butcher
safe deposits boxes
The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can. Honore de Balzac
safe cosmetics ingredients
I entered the cosmetics industry because I wanted more women to use cosmetics made with safe, healthful ingredients. Gloria Swanson
difficulty puts understand
I understand the difficulty it puts them in to choose, Dan Kelly
difficult worse
This is going to be a difficult year, probably worse than 2005. Kevin Tynan
difficult population
This is a problem. This is a very difficult population to get to. John Breaux
difficulty disturb feeble gales great magnitude priest puny soul stormy work
I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea. John Chrysostom
difficult experience extremely kept leg living months nine past six
Curtis had been hospitalized on and off for the past six months. Nine months ago his right leg was amputated. Living as a quadriplegic was an extremely difficult experience -- but he kept going. Karen Lee
difficult economic health issue needs public social strong tobacco
Controlling tobacco is a long-term, difficult and complicated public health task, it is also a social and economic issue that needs a strong policy. Sha Zukang
difficult elements huge interested music pop
Difficult music is just a huge challenge. I've always been interested in music that didn't have pop elements to it. Josh Blair
difficult easier helping life
To me, it's helping to make life a little easier for someone who is in a very difficult situation. Martha Minnich
difficult dream expensive lifestyle living realized turn type
We had realized the American dream and were living a very expensive lifestyle, the type of lifestyle where it is difficult to turn off the spigot. Kenneth Lay