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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 haughtiness roof
Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude. Plato
solitude poverty virtue
The poor attend to their own virtue in solitude. Mencius
solitude made capacity
Nature has made us a present of a broad capacity for entertaining ourselves apart, and often calls us to do so, to teach us that we owe ourselves in part to society, but in the best part to ourselves. Michel de Montaigne
solitude
I am happiest when I am alone. Jackie Kennedy
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