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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
novel reader
She had always been an unashamed reader of novels ... Barbara Pym
novelists footnotes
Novelists never have to footnote. Jane Smiley
novel heard eighty
Eighty percent of all novels are bought by women, or so I've heard. Bonnie Jo Campbell
novels people
All my novels are about people who strive to heal and evolve. Michel Faber
novel exception
Almost without exception, my novels are rooted in Israel because that's the place I know well. Amos Oz
novelists lessons
The lesson you have to learn as novelist is how to be collaborative, and how to say, "I don't get to dictate this." Tom Perrotta
novelists poet ifs
If you tell a novelist, 'Life's not like that', he has to do something about it. The poet simply replies, 'No, but I am.' Philip Larkin
novelists function comment
The function of the novelist... is to comment upon life as he sees it. Frank Norris
novelty literature advantage
Being a novelty had its advantages. Jessica Savitch
needed plays
That's when we needed to make a run, right there. That's when we needed to make the plays to get it closer. Mike Richards
needed
Did I do everything I needed to do? Brian Dawkins
needed practices
We got 29 practices in August, ... and we needed more. Chuck Long
needed seemed time
Every time they needed a rebound, she seemed to get it.
needed
Be at your best when your best is needed. John Wooden
needed surgery
He said to me, jokingly and also seriously, that if he had done the surgery 100 times, he didn't think he could have done it any better. That's all I really needed to hear. Daunte Culpepper
needed
For those who understand, no explaination is needed...For those who don't, none will do. Jerry Lewis
needed
I lack nothing. I only needed myself. Franz Kafka
needed
Hip, hip, hooray, we've needed them for a long time.