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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 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 i-can ifs
If I see an ending, I can work backward. Arthur Miller
writing should more-money
A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)? Brian Aldiss
writing way better-person
the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person. Brenda Ueland
writing exercise perspective
The writing of an assay-type poem or a poem investigating perspective isn't an exercise of rational or strategic mind. Poems for me are acts of small or large desperation. They grapple with surfaces too steep to walk in any other way, yet which have to be traveled. Jane Hirshfield
writing college two
I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go so far as to call it a talent. But it scared me. I felt it was a childish thing wanting to write and that I would forget about it eventually. Ben Fountain
writing church musician
But I really do have a soft spot for the solo shows. Any musician who writes and sings will tell you thats the center of it, that is it. Its almost like theres something church-like about it and you gotta go back there, if youre a songwriter that sings your material. Ben Folds
writing style literature
I make it clear why I write as I do and why other poets write as they do. After hundreds of experiments I decided to go my own way in style and see what would happen. Carl Sandburg
language cowardice politically-correct
Politically correct is the language of cowardice. Billy Connolly
language homeland
Language is the only homeland. Czeslaw Milosz
language clarity
In language clarity is everything. Confucius
language problem hindi
If I have to do something, I feel I should do it perfectly, and ofcourse, Hindi language is a problem. Soundarya
language surrender capable
We must be capable of speaking a language of peace, but not one of surrender. Silvio Berlusconi
language
language is never neutral Paulo Freire
language billions millions
Out of 1.6 billion Muslims, perhaps only 300 million actually understand the language of the Koran. Mosab Hassan Yousef
language speak
The Germans and I no longer speak the same language. Marlene Dietrich
language
I'm pretty good with languages. Marisol Nichols
novels people
All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve. Michel Faber
novel exception
Almost without exception, my novels are rooted in Israel because that's the place I know well. Amos Oz
novelists lessons
The lesson you have to learn as novelist is how to be collaborative, and how to say, "I don't get to dictate this." Tom Perrotta
novelty literature advantage
Being a novelty had its advantages. Jessica Savitch
novels three translated
Rejection is part of the process, so you can't let it crush you. My first three novels never made it into publication, but my fourth, 'Sheltering Rain,' was translated into 11 languages. Jojo Moyes
novel austen clothings
It was like being in a Jane Austen novel, but one with far less clothing. Terry Pratchett
novelists males
Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist. Curtis Sittenfeld