I often said that writers are of two types.There is the architect, which is one type. The architect, as if designing a building, lays out the entire novel at a time. He knows how many rooms there will be or what a roof will be made of or how high it will be, or where the plumbing will run and where the electrical outlets will be in its room. All that before he drives the first nail. Everything is there in the blueprint.And then there's the gardener who digs the hole in the ground, puts in the seed and waters it with his blood and sees what comes up. The gardener knows certain things. He's not completely ignorant. He knows whether he planted an oak tree, or corn, or a cauliflower. He has some idea of the shape but a lot of it depends on the wind and the weather and how much blood he gives it and so forth.No one is purely an architect or a gardener in terms of a writer, but many writers tend to one side or the other. I'm very much more a gardener.
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You are the architect of your life.
You are the architect of your own future, so design your future with uncompromising sincerity.
I am the instigator of my adversities but at the same time I am the architect of my success.
The stability of the structure is directly related to the security of the foundation
If it is necessary for us to do anything [in view of peace], direct us and architect.__ὸ _άδ_ ἡμ_ν, ε _ι __ δ_ᾶ, __άζε κ__ι_εκ__νει.
Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history but it__ not very deep. I understand that time has changed, we have evolved. But I don__ want to forget the beginning. A lasting architecture has to have roots.
Great artists need great clients.
The architect and the father of war are covetousness of the leaders and of different interest groups fueling war.
Everything has been planned. The ascent will be completed in two days_ time. He will climb another one hundred floors today. Another hundred the next day. He does not want to take the lift. The rush of life causes people to drown in the temporary. He wishes to dip into eternity before he leaves.
Let's do it right. This is for the ages.
I think there are two types of writers, the architects and the gardeners. The architects plan everything ahead of time, like an architect building a house. They know how many rooms are going to be in the house, what kind of roof they're going to have, where the wires are going to run, what kind of plumbing there's going to be. They have the whole thing designed and blueprinted out before they even nail the first board up. The gardeners dig a hole, drop in a seed and water it. They kind of know what seed it is, they know if planted a fantasy seed or mystery seed or whatever. But as the plant comes up and they water it, they don't know how many branches it's going to have, they find out as it grows. And I'm much more a gardener than an architect.
Be the best, not necessarily the original.
Cowards say it can't be done, critics say it shouldn't have been done, creator say well done.
Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry.Breathe on the glass, and you give frost more ammunition.Now it can build castles and cities and whole ice continents with your breath__ vapor.In a few blinks you can almost see the winter fairies moving in . . .But first, you hear the crackle of their wings.
Stop worrying about missed opportunities and start looking for new ones.
On the street below, the weather is calm. But up here, high winds threaten to topple the workers. A sudden gust can knock them from their footing with its sheer force or send a fatal vibration through the beams on which they stand. And yet the men joke, laugh, stroll across the foot-wide beams as though they are on solid ground. To the people on the sidewalk, tiny as ants below, the skywalkers appear entirely unafraid. A hundred years ago, their grandfathers and great-grandfathers built the skyscrapers and bridges that surround them.
With an architect as your guide, you canresponsibly stop worrying about what spacessomeone else might want in a house and focus only on those things your house should include.