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writing people leader
I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember. Carlos Ghosn
writing biographies like-you
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone. Carlos Fuentes
writing literature imagine
In literature, you know only what you imagine
writing fighting opposites
Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because shes had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
writing littles needs
I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.
writing angel
Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going to live any more.
writing order stories
One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.
writing ends dies
You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
writing needs imagine
I need, therefore I imagine.
novel monologues i-can
This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue. Carol Shields
novelty impress please
Novelties please less than they impress. Charles Dickens
novel mediums prose
My medium is prose, not the novel. David Shields
novel
For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed. David Mitchell
novelists novel livelihood
I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.
novel
I used to read only fiction. Now I don't read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison novel. David Quammen
novels plot
I don't plot my novels - I move along with my characters. Ellen Potter
novels people physical
I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described. John Irving
novelists knows cusp
A novelist is on the cusp between someone who knows everything and someone who knows nothing. Jane Smiley
knows ready
We have to get him ready so he knows how to prepare. Ozzie Guillen
knows hideous jane
Am I hideous, Jane? Very, sir: you always were, you know. Charlotte Bronte
knows self-examination
He who knows himself knows others. Charles Caleb Colton
knows written
I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it.
knows ifs
You don't have to act as if you know what you're doing Brian Eno
knows repeats courses
Of course, like anybody I repeat myself endlessly, but I don't know that I'm doing it, usually.
knows fronts
When you don't know what to do, do what's right and do what's in front of you. But not necessarily what's right in front of you. Brent Weeks
knows open stop time
We know each other so well. We try to open it up, but every time I try to do something, he knows how to stop it. Billy Chamberlain
knows
We are only what we know, and I wished to be so much more than I was, sorely.