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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. Barbara Kingsolver
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. Augusten Burroughs
writing names errors
I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of the twentieth century. Perhaps in the end he will conclude that the multitude of errors committed in the name of Munich may exceed the original error of 1938. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
writing language clarity
Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
stories
Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like. Jason Katims
stories earth events
The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about. C. S. Lewis
stories ends
All you really have in the end are your stories. Burt Reynolds
stories research fantasy
How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all. Alan Dean Foster
stories next firsts
The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it. Charles Colson
stories said knows
All these lives," she said. "All the stories we never know." (125) Elizabeth Strout
stories seekers
You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders. Edgar Allan Poe
stories speak shoulders
So many stories, and to choose which ones to tell and how to tell them. The words, they will tap me on the shoulder and they will speak to me: Tell me! Tell me! The stories choose me. Eduardo Galeano
stories movement care
In every industrialized nation, the movement to reform health care has begun with stories about cruelty. Atul Gawande
may individual difficulty
Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be. Jane Austen
may rewards tendencies
I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience. Jane Austen
may call-me sinner
They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself. Brigitte Bardot
maybe signing unless
Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people. Dana Stabenow
may mercy
May God in His mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may He lead us to Himself. Dietrich Bonhoeffer
may incidents happened
I describe incidents which may or may not have happened but which are true. Elie Wiesel
may resolve enigma
It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve. Edgar Allan Poe
may
Women who love only women may have a good point. Edward Abbey
may world illusion
This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got. Edward Abbey