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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. Barbara Kingsolver
writing perfect
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now. Barbara Kingsolver
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
longer nice storage
Storage is no longer in the background. It's not just nice to have; it's a must-have. Tom Coughlin
longer songs
I've been singing and writing songs only a little longer than acting. I really enjoy both. J. D. Souther
longer releasing
There will no longer be a big eruption. It's releasing pressure. Fernando Lopez
longer order takes
That's kind of been the story of my life. Everything kind of takes a little longer for me in order to be successful. Rick Clausen
long stuff wells
My movies are pretty tight and they're pretty well-paced. I'm not one to make long movies. I don't dwell on stuff. Brett Ratner
long facts stories
It's actually a rather romantic and dramatic story --- one I would eagerly tell you, except for the fact that I recently forgot it, based on it being far too long and having not enough decapitations. Brandon Sanderson
long hours long-hours
I love to do what I do. So, I do work long hours. Brandon Sanderson
long remember theater
I had an interest, for as long as I could remember, in theater. Antoinette Perry
long libertarian socialism
The broad liberal objective is a balanced and flexible "mixed economy," thus seeking to occupy that middle ground between capitalism and socialism whose viability has so long been denied by both capitalists and socialists. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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 movement crafts
Fiction shows the external effects of internal conditions. Be aware of the tension between internal and external movement. Raymond Carver
fiction behinds our-lives
Our lives are fictions, a work we leave behind, signed. Vanna Bonta