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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.
writing paper care
Stop them damn pictures! I don’t care what the papers write about me. My constituents can’t read. But, damn it, they can see the pictures! Boss Tweed
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.
wants
Now, I know everyone wants to see turtles. What else? Lyle Thomas
wanting
I've been wanting him for a long time. Now that I've got him, I can't take him off the court. Pat Riley
want example prepared
I've always shown up, always been prepared. Everything I do comes back to the example I want to set. Brett Favre
want pay attention
If you want more money, don't pay attention to the money. Pay attention to the thing that makes the money. Brandon Steiner
want humans seems
At times, it seems to me that to be human is to want that which we cannot have. For some, this is power. For me, it is peace.
want living-things
Nothing can stop a living thing that wants to be free Aravind Adiga
want extraordinary-life extraordinary
Everyone wants to lead an extraordinary life. Augustus
want aging castro
I just don't want to die the same day Castro dies Art Buchwald
want nervous breakdown
A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.
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.
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