I think that you make the best choice with the information that you have before you at that given time.
It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.
I'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing.
The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story's flaws before you invest a lot of time writing the first draft, and it's almost impossible to get stuck at a difficult chapter, because you've already done the work to push through those kinds of blocks.
The army of the sea shall stand before the city, then shall go away for a passage that shall not be very long, as a great prey of citizens shall be holding the ground. The fleet returns. The great emblem recovered.
The cosmic game changed forever in 1992. Before then, logic told us that there had to be other planets besides the nine (if you still count poor Pluto) in our solar system, but until that year, when two astronomers detected faint, telltale radio signals in the constellation Virgo, we had no hard evidence of their existence.
Strong credit markets give companies borrowing options to boost their stock prices while making bearish investors scramble to close out trades before losing any more money, both of which then push the stock market even higher and continue the self-reinforcing bullish cycle.
Since hydrogen is a constituent of most of our electrolytic solvents, the definition of an acid or base as a substance which gives up or takes up hydrogen ion would be more general than the one we used before, but it would not be universal.
When I was starting out, I didn't know what the hell I was doing and my person who was helping me out, I didn't even have an agent, got me five or six big auditions for leads in movies in 1986 that I had no business auditioning for. I think I ran out of three of them before I'd even finished.
For every quarrel a man and wife have before others, they have a hundred when alone.
But I never worked with a northern horse before. They are very different from western horses.
Warner Bros. has talked about going out with low-cost DVDs simultaneously in China because piracy is so huge there. It will be a while before bigger movies go out in all formats; in five years, everything will.
We not only heard it before 20 years ago, before George Bush in 2001 passed his tax relief, before in 2003 the tax relief were past, we were told they were dead. Before we provided prescription drugs for Medicare, we were told it wasn't going to happen.
One must be a somebody before they can have a enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.
Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.
I spent my time trying to understand grand jury procedure - a topic about which I never before had the slightest interest.
It is the unshakeable determination and will of our Party to put forward young people in the vanguard of the ranks of the general onward march as masters of the times and help them put up the doorplate of a thriving country before anybody else.
'Snowpiercer' was out of this world. It gave me a chance to do something I'd never done before, to create a whole new world.
My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.
We talked to the referees before the game; there's always new situations to adjust, for the refs and for us as well. Even on the ice, it's good for players to talk and interact with the referee.
I feel like the books were just written like a movie. You read it and you can just kind of see everything. Before I went in to read with the director, I read the first book and I loved it. I didn't realize how good the writing was. And then I went in and read with Gary Ross, and that was it.
Dessert is probably the most important stage of the meal, since it will be the last thing your guests remember before they pass out all over the table.
Man is a question; woman is an answer. The mistake women make today is to offer themselves as answers before being questioned.
I expected to die. At no time before the trial did I expect to escape with my life. Yet being executed in the gas chamber did not necessarily mean defeat. It could be one more step to bring the community to a higher level of consciousness.
Isn't it amazing how much stuff we get done the day before vacation?
You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.
More than any other in Western Europe, Britain remains a country where a traveler has to think twice before indulging in the ordinary food of ordinary people.
That's the thing about musicians: The priority is to create something new that's never been before. And you put your life on the line every time that you play.
I have voted to make tough decisions in budgetary times, I've served on two recessionary budgets, my opponent has never served on any a budget committee where there was less money to spend than the year before.
I was born in L.A., then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to New York, then we moved to Baltimore, then we moved to California, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to Texas, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to California. This was before I was 17.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
Art led the way for me to recover. He got out of prison before me and started traveling all over the world before I did. He showed me by example that it could be done, and I'll always love him for that.
I'm just hoping my children will get enough of a foundation to remember what it was like before technology, how good that feels. Because I remember.
When you make a pilot, you've never seen the show before; you don't know what it is.
We are constantly being surprised that people did things well before we were born.
I do wash my hands in innocency, before God and the face of you, good Christian people this day.
