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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 funny-things discipline
It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
editors libertarian wheat
An editor is one who separates the wheat from the chaff and prints the chaff. Adlai Stevenson
editors reach whether
We were only able to reach editors intermittently. Some we didn't even know where they were or whether they were all right. Bill Walsh
editors expression ease
Unless you are in the willingness and ease and ecstasy of some kind of moment, you may end up the editor of your thoughts and of your expressions. I find I'm that way on stage. Alex Ebert
editors fool journalism
Anyone who edits their own copy has a fool for an editor. Donald Davis
editors spoiled theater
I was spoiled by theater, where there is no editor. Anthony Edwards
editors people film
I've seen people who stink, but the film editor shows them just where they didn't stink. But if you're empty and manipulative on stage, it's clear. D. B. Sweeney
editors ideas
I'm totally against the idea of a celebrity editor. David Zinczenko
editors
Jonathan Demme is a very sharp editor of his movies. Anthony Hopkins
editors want mail
I want to be a writer. I do not want to spend 40 hours a week handling e-mails, formatting covers, finding editors, etc. Amanda Hocking
editing reading-poetry needs
Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing. James Tate
editing trying rooms
Once I'm in the editing room, forget about what I intended to shoot. I take a cold, hard look at what I really did shoot, and then I edit that because, if you try to edit what you intended and you missed somewhere, that will show up. Doug Liman
editing years people
Your only guidepost is your own instinct and judicious editing. In my stand-up act I learned that in the first 10 minutes I could say anything and it would get a laugh. Then I'd better deliver. In the movie it's the same thing. You get a lot of laughs when people first sit down and then the story better kick in. Many years in front of an audience, I would hope, give me a sense of what works. Steve Martin
editing agonizing needs
My whole life is a movie. It's just that there are no dissolves. I have to live every agonizing moment of it. My life needs editing. Mort Sahl
editing mind fiction
Fiction happens in the womb. It doesn't get processed in the mind until you do the editing. Isabel Allende
editing took
We took it out in the editing process, Joseph Cook
editing full involved open scientific
I want to be clear. We are about open and full communications. We don't get involved when it comes to editing scientific information. Dean Acosta
editing
You know what editing can do. The editing on that show can be so cruel.