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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 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.
writing imagine wells
I imagine the proverb about too many cooks spoiling the broth can be applied to writing as well as anything else. The poetical or literary broth is better cooked by one person. Barbara Pym
writing kind pleasure
Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms.
novelists footnotes
Novelists never have to footnote. Jane Smiley
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
novelists poet ifs
If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.' Philip Larkin
novelists function comment
The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it. Frank Norris
novelists academic written
I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically. A. S. Byatt
novelists males
Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist. Curtis Sittenfeld
novelists
In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially. Ray Bradbury
originals
There is an original inside me. Rumi
originals gershwin
It is always possible to create something original. George Gershwin