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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. Brandon Sanderson
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. Barbara Kingsolver
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. Barbara Kingsolver
fiction jay-gould essays
I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading science essayists. Like Loren Eiseley, Stephen Jay Gould, Lewis Thomas. Alan Lightman
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 popularity programs
The popularity of these programs has an impact. There is a blurring of fiction and reality. Laurie Levenson
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 science-fiction
There is nothing to be learned from history anymore. We're in science fiction now. Allen Ginsberg
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
facts fish giving life telling
Telling a teen-ager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath. Arnold Glasow
facts false individual information intended people trying
This is not intended to give false confidence. It's really about trying to get people the facts and information they need so they can make individual decisions. Dan Hitchings
facts destination fine
What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive. Barbara Kingsolver
facts ethical states
The State, in fact, as the universal ethical will, is the creator of right. Benito Mussolini
facts answers responding
Get the facts. Ask questions and listen intently to the answers before responding. Brian Tracy
facts fiction sometimes
Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction Carol Alt
facts fountainhead rules-for-radicals
It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith. Saul Alinsky
facts machines arithmetic
That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine. Arthur Schopenhauer
facts human intense value vision
The only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts. William Williams