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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.
mental steven toughness
As a runner, the mental toughness Steven has is amazing. Stephanie Scalessa
mental motivation ready
The motivation wasn't there. I don't know if it was the layoff, but they just weren't ready to play. The mental mistakes, the turnovers, everything just showed they weren't prepared.
mentally people tough
Samantha's one of the most mentally tough people I've ever met,
mentally staying warming
It was a little different. I think its all about warming up and staying mentally focused.
mentally
That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him.
mention mere smile smiles
You smile with just the mere mention of his name. John Sullivan
men important matter
They say a man doesn't know himself until he faces death for the first time. . . I don't know about that. It seems to me that the person you are when you're about to die isn't as important as the person you are during the rest of your life. Why should a few moments matter more than an entire lifetime?
men important almighty
In the end, all men die. How you lived will be far more important to the Almighty than what you accomplished.
men portraits aging
A study of family portraits is enough to convert a man to the theory of reincarnation. Arthur Conan Doyle
fiction remember stranger
But please remember: this is only a work of fiction. The truth, as always, will be far stranger. Arthur C. Clarke
fiction honest aim
The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth. Anton Chekhov
fiction easy tales
How easy it is to tell tales! Denis Diderot
fiction life love whether
Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life. Abraham Verghese
fiction realizing social
What they [critics of Lessing's switch to science fiction] didn't realize was that in science fiction is some of the best social fiction of our time. Doris Lessing
fiction ground los reality
What I do now is I write fiction. I ground my fiction in the reality of a place called Los Angeles. Michael Connelly
fiction documentaries directors
In the documentary the basic material has been created by God, whereas in the fiction film the director is a God; he must create life. Alfred Hitchcock
fiction sovereign shock
Science fiction is the sovereign prophylactic against future shock. Alvin Toffler
fiction movement crafts
Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement. Raymond Carver