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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 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 sitting-still wish
I wish I could write while I'm on the road but it never works for me. I need to be sitting still. Jami Attenberg
writing emotional historical-novels
I've been told by people who write historical novels that you just sort of write the emotional truth first, the story at the core, and then you go back and research it at the end.
writing important eternal
Write only of what is important and eternal. Anton Chekhov
writing intelligent men
If an intelligent, educated, and healthy man begins to complain of his lot and go down-hill, there is nothing for him to do but to go on down until he reaches the bottom--there is no hope for him. Where could my salvation come from? How can I save myself? I cannot drink, because it makes my head ache. I never could write bad poetry. I cannot pray for strength and see anything lofty in the languor of my soul. Laziness is laziness and weakness weakness. I can find no other names for them. I am lost, I am lost; there is no doubt of that.
language homeland
Language is the only homeland. Czeslaw Milosz
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 borrowed
English has borrowed from everywhere and now goes everywhere. Mason Cooley
language loses knows
When a language die we don't know what we lose with language. Patricia Ryan
language ass curse
I love the French language... it's a delightful language, especially to curse with. It's like whopping your ass with silk. Oscar Wilde
language learned
Sharon, ... has learned the language of the possible. Shlomo Avineri
language
Senator, we just don't use that kind of language on the floor of the Senate. Mike Mansfield
language talk
But they are not going to talk to us in the language of threats. Ali Larijani
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