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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 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.
writing perfect
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
conversation engaged intimate lately loop noticed ongoing perpetual represent seems
I've noticed lately that it seems most intimate to not use any closing on your e-mail at all, because it seems to make it feel like you are engaged in an ongoing conversation - as if this one e-mail doesn't represent the beginning and end of the interaction but is just part of a perpetual loop of friendly back-and-forth. Susan Orlean
conversation drive guy insane next overhear
It would drive me insane to overhear the conversation of the guy in the next seat. Karen Meredith
conversation cross discuss gets interest next point settling status type
That type of conversation is so premature. If we ever get to that bridge, we'll cross it went we get there. Really, at this point, our interest is not really in settling out Mike's contract. Our interest is that he gets well and at some point we discuss his status for next year.
conversation turned
That turned a two-way conversation into a one-way discussion.
conversation fragments future hear mean store
I have a magpie mind, by which I mean I see and hear little things - photos, fragments of conversation - and store them away for future use.
conversation point
I'm a point of conversation for my friends. Daniel Portman
conversation free learned novel pleasant witty
Conversation should be pleasant without scurrility, witty without affection, free without indecency, learned without conceitedness, novel without falsehood. William Shakespeare
conversation function personally serve stimulate writers
I personally read criticism - at least by writers I enjoy - to stimulate a conversation in my own mind, and I like to think that's the function I serve for others. Ben Brantley
conversation range
You can make it (the plane) bigger, but you're going to give up some range and that's part of the conversation we are having with Qantas... about what the Dash-10 will look like.