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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 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 habit latter
I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter. Barbara Mertz
writing names wave
We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away. Augustus
writing thinking secret
The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work. Augusten Burroughs
critics ignore question rather studios useful weaknesses youth
This is a question of the critics being useful to the studios. When it's youth movies, studios really don't want their weaknesses highlighted and would rather the critics ignore them. That's going to continue. Anne Thompson
critics minimal quite
That's not quite what the critics had in mind. This is minimal change. Larry Sabato
critics fans ourselves trying
We're just trying to make ourselves laugh. We realize critics are going to hate it, but it just makes fans like it more. Johnny Knoxville
critics-and-criticism degraded trade trades
The trade of critic, in literature, music, and the drama, is the most degraded of all trades Mark Twain
critics
Writers are rarely their own best critics, nor are critics. Anthony Burgess
critics statues
There are no statues erected to critics. Tim Ferriss
critics dressing dull feed taste
Let dull critics feed upon the carcasses of plays; give me the taste and the dressing Lord Chesterfield
critics deeply few gaze paranoid politics
Weirdly, there have been a lot of critics of conservatism, but very few critics of innovation. As a culture, we are deeply paranoid about politics, but we gaze upon innovation with rapturous adulation.
critics havens asks
I'm probably my biggest critic. There's nothing anyone can ask of me that I haven't already asked of myself. Jhene Aiko