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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
solitude crowds hours
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily. Arthur Brisbane
solitude walks ifs
After all, when you take a walk you're after solitude, and if the solitude won't come to you, you must go to it. Elfriede Jelinek
solitude left
Word I was in my life alone, / Word I had no one left but God. Robert Frost
solitude salt flavor
Solitude is the salt of personhood. It brings out the authentic flavor of every experience. May Sarton
solitude adore thirst
I simply adore being alone - I find it a consuming thirst - and when that thirst is slaked, then I am happy.
solitude mind secrecy
How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude! Matthew Arnold
solitude world cures
She frowned at him. 'You are in love with solitude.' 'Is there a better cure for the world than solitude? Meg Rosoff
solitude secret degrees
No one can help us to achieve the intimate isolation by which we find our secret worlds, so mysterious, rich and full. If others intervene, it is destroyed. This degree of thought, which we attain by freeing ourselves from the external world, must be fed by the inner spirit, and our surroundings cannot influence us in any way other than to leave us in peace. Maria Montessori
solitude insurmountable
There is no insurmountable solitude. Pablo Neruda
letters bigs arrested
When you get arrested it's in big letters. When you get acquitted it's in small letters. Charles Barkley
letters made crooked
Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight. Stephen King
letters answers love-letter
If someone sends you a love letter you've got to answer back. Ray Bradbury
letters stood-up hanging-around
I got stood up by the letter Y, he was hanging around with his X. Norah Jones
letters feels
More and more I feel like a letter—deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one. Margaret Atwood
letters action inventing
He liked to go from A to B without inventing letters between. John McPhee
letters
The request-for-donation letters didn't get out in time. Jill Thomas
letters way eras
I love the silent era because you can see the rules being written, the grammar of film being created. Most of my films are in some way love letters to the silent era. Dave McKean