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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 two my-family
I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.
writing paper care
Stop them damn pictures! I don’t care what the papers write about me. My constituents can’t read. But, damn it, they can see the pictures! Boss Tweed
writing journalism sometimes
The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big. Anthony Shadid
writing way controversy
There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write. Ben Mezrich
writing emotional levels
When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level. Ben Marcus
writing reader
The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader. Ben Okri
writing night awake
I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night. Barbara Kingsolver
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.
novel reader
She had always been an unashamed reader of novels ... Barbara Pym
novelists footnotes
Novelists never have to footnote. Jane Smiley
novel reader possessed
The main thing about the novel that is totally fascinating: It's not possessed by the writer; it's possessed by the reader.
novel heard eighty
Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I've heard. Bonnie Jo Campbell
novel outside reader
Each and every novel is a world outside the world - for a reader to visit, for comfort, consolation, escape, or challenge. Joshua Cohen
novel novelist straight
A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people. Edmund White
novels people
All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve. Michel Faber
novel things-to-do critical
Novels for me are how I find out what's going on in my own head. And so that's a really useful and indeed critical thing to do when you do as many of these other things as I do. Cory Doctorow
novel plans outlines
I never know what's going to happen in a novel. I don't have a plan or an outline. Donna Leon
ought
Right now, we're not where we ought to be (on hybrids). Bob Lutz
ought
We've got about 300 members. We ought to have about 3,000. John Gibson
ought
Private businesses ought to get to discriminate. John Stossel
ought
I think the Vice-President ought to re-read the constitution. Edward Kennedy
ought taste tomatoes
My tomatoes taste like tomatoes used to taste, ought to taste and still do taste.
ought process sit solve talk view
My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems? Dan Miller
ought people
I would like to bring people who have never been to a museum into a museum. And I would like to bring museum goers into libraries. I think there ought to be this cross-fertilization. Susan Vreeland
ought
It doesn't matter what kind of book you write - you ought to write it well and with some kind of style and elegance. Ruth Rendell
ought
I still think they ought to give it back,