I usually don't find myself reacting to my characters. I just create them ... And let the audience decide whether they're empathetic or scared or compelled to cheer me on.
While the goal of a book is to create a positive emotional experience for the reader, the goal of the opening is to set the stage, to pull the reader in.
It's important to be informed but I also think it's important to be inspired. I'm creating a space where people can be inspired.
In the Cleveland area, I have been instrumental in helping to save or create thousands of jobs. People know me there as a person who gets involved.
My foundation was created so I can find a way to improve the living conditions of my people in the African continent, not just in Congo.
Beauty of your love-filled smile created a mark on the stone wall of my heart, I can erase it never.
By learning more, by doing more, by becoming more, and by creating a common vision, a leader is a person who can inspire others to change for the better.
Let us love each other, then appreciate each other, then express our gratitude to each other; we will create heaven on earth.
My thoughts are limitless. Social conditioning creates the limits. I like to overtake those and like to go where my thoughts take me.
A little love, a little kindness, a little hope, a little joyfulness, a little tolerance, a little gratefulness, brings harmony and creates peacefulness.
Peace is inside us, it's a natural state of mind; to find it, we create war, destroy the world like a blind.
There is the truth , the perception of truth, and versions that don't even come close; but it's the perception that creates the most conflict every time.
If we can't write diversity into sci-fi, then what's the point? You don't create new worlds to give them all the same limits of the old ones.
In my opinion, it is easier to avoid iambic rhythms, when writing in syllabics, if you create a line or pattern of lines using odd numbers of syllables.
There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.
My guiding principle is that prosperity can be shared. We can create wealth together. The global economy is not a zero-sum game.
Compassionate action emerges from the sense of openness, connectedness, and discernment you have created.
The interesting thing about the Internet is that it has created a kind of alternative circle of friends for people.
You looked at Stanford or Harvard, or the University of Colorado, these were powerful engines just turning out people ready to create and grow businesses.
Creating fake facts does require a measure of haphazard research, insofar as they need to not just be possible, but also interesting.
Loyalty, respect for authority and some degree of sanctification create a more binding social order that places some limits on individualism and egoism.
