Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle.
Rewriting is the essence of writing well - where the game is won or lost.
Clear thinking becomes clear writing; one can't exist without the other.
Writers can write to affirm and to celebrate, or they can write to debunk and destroy; the choice is ours.
The most important sentence in any article is the first one. If it doesn't induce the reader to proceed to the second sentence, your article is dead. And if the second sentence doesn't induce him to continue to the third sentence, it's equally dead.
Never let anything go out into the world that you don't understand.
If you lose the dullards back in the dust, that's where they belong. You don't want them anyway.
Where magic is concerned, there is always an initial decision, an initial willingness to let it enter your life. If that is not there neither is magic.
Look at Senegal, about 90% of the Muslims in Senegal are Tijani or Qadiri Sufis. Among them, they have very great teachers who have written poems about al-Hallaj, and they have not been killed. In fact, it's Sufism that brought Islam through all of Senegal, right under our noses the last couple of centuries. And you can go down the same line through Indonesia and Malaysia.
In the beginning, my mother humored me when I told her I wanted to be a reporter.
Radicals can be found in any environment.