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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.
scratches building jokes
A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap. Kurt Vonnegut
scratches statistics
He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch? Elias Canetti
scratches crafts succeed
If you succeed not, cast not away the quills yet, nor scratch the wainscot, beat not the poor desk, but bring all to the forge and file again; turn it new. Ben Jonson
scratches hours program
It's incredibly hard to program a network from scratch for 24 hours. Carson Kressley
scratches stories claws
When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that's a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn't right. David E. Kelley
scratches needs bigs
I love to act. I need to act. It's the big itch I need to scratch. Christopher Meloni
scratches film
Film is an itch I have yet to scratch. Lea Michele
scratches actors
Scratch an actor and you'll find an actor. Laurence Olivier
scratches problem starting
I have no problem with starting from scratch. Leif Garrett
plot lucky
I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me Caroline B. Cooney
plot shapes divinity
Rashly, And praised be rashness for it--let us know, Our indiscretion sometime serves us well When our deep plots do pall, and that should learn us There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will William Shakespeare
plot storytelling shows
Anything that happens on any show is a plot contrivance because that's just storytelling. Bryan Fuller
plot hiding subtle
The more subtle and elegant you are in hiding your plot points, the better you are as a writer. Billy Wilder
plot dames christie
I learned everything I know about plot from Dame Agatha (Christie). Connie Willis
plot care want
I don't really care about plot; I want to have a page-turner in a different kind of way. Barry Hannah
plot cliche generic
The cliches are that it's the most generic Starsky and Hutch plot you can find. Ben Stiller
plot communist buried
Show me where Stalin is buried and I'll show you a Communist Plot. Edgar Bergen
plot three scene
A good novel is an indivisible sum; every scene, sequence and passage of a good novel has to involve, contribute to and advance all three of its major attributes: theme, plot, characterization. Ayn Rand