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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
dumb steps dance-steps
I am dumb when it comes to learning dance steps. Mia Kirshner
dumb hell
If there were a hell for dumb decisions, Mark E. Smith
dumbest regret undo
It was probably one of the dumbest things I ever did, ... If I could undo it, I would. Bob Davies
dumb stories way
I know of three ways to recognize another writer: Writers are shamelessly nosy. Writers tell good stories, even about dumb old, daily things. On most writers, the earmarks of thrift, if not outright povery, are evident. Joyce Thompson
dumb drug goes-on
I had a lot of it in my day, but I don't like it. It's a dumb drug. Your whole concentration goes on getting the next fix. I find caffeine easier to deal with. John Lennon
dumb good penalties
There were some good penalties and there were some dumb penalties.
dumb words-of-wisdom injustice-and-oppression
Thus, cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement. Charles Dickens
dumb question
The only dumb question is the one you don't ask.
dumb trying massachusetts
If I lived in Massachusetts, I'd try to vote ten times ... Yeah that's right, I'd cheat to keep these bastards out. I would. Because that's exactly what they are. Ed Schultz
reader
It's not about what you tell the reader, it's about what you conceal. Dan Brown
reader shows
Show the readers everything, tell them nothing. Ernest Hemingway
reader skip
Leave out the parts that readers tend to skip. Henry Miller
readers
I think a lot of readers are looking for a book they can talk about. Christina Baker Kline
reader war
When you're a war correspondent, the reader is for you because the reader is saying, 'Gee, I wouldn't want to be doing that.' They're on your side. P. J. O'Rourke
readers
I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb. Amy Bloom
readers
The papers are only going to show what they want the readers to see. It's all propaganda, to be honest. Dionne Bromfield