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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.
editors pages today
The best young writers are convinced they need blurbs from famous writers before an editor will even read the first page of a manuscript. If this is true, then the editorial system that prevails today stinks. And let's start reforming it. Diane Wakoski
editors chaos theory
As an experienced editor, I disapprove of flashbacks, foreshadowings, and tricksy devices; they belong in the 1980s with M.A.s in postmodernism and chaos theory. David Mitchell
editors two scott-fitzgerald
If you look at any list of great modern writers such as Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, you'll notice two things about them: 1. They all had editors. 2. They are all dead. Thus we can draw the scientific conclusion that editors are fatal. Dave Barry
editors worry goal
Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
editors public-opinion politician
Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails. Austin O'Malley
editors two people
There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as "we"; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm. Bill Nye
editors denver pot
The Denver Post has actually hired an editor to promote pot. Bill O'Reilly
editors use paper
Machines aren't replacing proofreaders at all. Copy editors, who proofread and much, much more, use spellcheck as a tool but read every word that appears in the paper Bill Walsh
editors wake-up bedtime
Writers' bedtimes vary, but few have been spared the shock of a copy editor's early wake-up call
habit reconcile
Habit will reconcile us to everything but change Charles Caleb Colton
habit circumstances
Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies into circumstances. Bryan Adams
habit knowing life lived
I have lived most of my life in small towns, and I'm in the habit of knowing and talking to everyone. Ellen Gilchrist
habit could-have-been has-beens
It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be. Alan Paton
habit duty
The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear. Charles Baudelaire
habit easier thistles
It is easier to prevent thistles and habits than to uproot them.
habit reacting interest
Very often, human beings are living like on autopilot, reacting automatically with what happens. What interests me about the life of an explorer is you are in the unknown; you are out of your habits. Bertrand Piccard
habitat pageant evolve
Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere. Diane Ackerman
habit
To make headway, improve your head. B. C. Forbes