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writing important scene
I am a writer who works from an outline. What I generally do when I build an outline is I find focal, important scenes, and I build them in my head and I don't write them yet, but I build towards them. Brandon Sanderson
writing way controversy
There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write. Ben Mezrich
writing thinking talking
If you're writing, you're a writer. If you're talking about it or thinking about it, I'm not so sure. Writing is ninety-eight percent work and two percent magic. Barbara Kingsolver
writing perfect
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
writing habit latter
I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter. Barbara Mertz
writing thinking secret
The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work. Augusten Burroughs
writing down-and ritual
My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.
writing language clarity
Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
writing i-can ifs
If I see an ending, I can work backward. Arthur Miller
symphony bird lines
I don't know if this is true to you but for me sometimes it gets so bad that anything else say like looking at a bird on an overhead power line seems as great as a Beethoven symphony. then you forget it and you're back again. Charles Bukowski
symphony silence thelema
Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence. Aleister Crowley
symphony clear pointless
I attempt to compose symphonies, although it is clear to me that logically it is pointless. Alfred Schnittke
symphony style musician
Symphony musicians are not trained in improvising, certainly not in a jazz style. Gunther Schuller
symphony musical each-day
Each day for me is a musical note that I use to compose the symphony of my life. Paulo Coelho
notes novel
There's never a false note in a Berg novel.
notes straight
When he left, he said he was going to take the notes straight to his engineer. Grant Tolbert
notes ifs sensations
If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations. Edgar Allan Poe
notes abstraction
That's what it is that you rehearse - the making of music, not the playing of notes as abstractions. Sarah Caldwell
notes wells pianist
I was like a well trained pianist who knows which note to hit, but can't make the music his own. David Benioff