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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 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. Barbara Kingsolver
writing perfect
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now. Barbara Kingsolver
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 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
writing down-and ritual
My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day. Augusten Burroughs
writing winning tvs
With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it. Everything I write is the truth and I know that I would win. Augusten Burroughs
writing thinking wells
What I think of blogs is just this: Some are beautifully written and many are not. But even blogs that aren't necessarily "well" written are great for the person writing them. Augusten Burroughs
editing reading-poetry needs
Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing. James Tate
editing trying rooms
Once I'm in the editing room, forget about what I intended to shoot. I take a cold, hard look at what I really did shoot, and then I edit that because, if you try to edit what you intended and you missed somewhere, that will show up. Doug Liman
editing years people
Your only guidepost is your own instinct and judicious editing. In my stand-up act I learned that in the first 10 minutes I could say anything and it would get a laugh. Then I'd better deliver. In the movie it's the same thing. You get a lot of laughs when people first sit down and then the story better kick in. Many years in front of an audience, I would hope, give me a sense of what works. Steve Martin
editing agonizing needs
My whole life is a movie. It's just that there are no dissolves. I have to live every agonizing moment of it. My life needs editing. Mort Sahl
editing mind fiction
Fiction happens in the womb. It doesn't get processed in the mind until you do the editing. Isabel Allende
editing full involved open scientific
I want to be clear. We are about open and full communications. We don't get involved when it comes to editing scientific information. Dean Acosta
editing
You know what editing can do. The editing on that show can be so cruel. Joanne Scheer
feelings world events
Journalism is concerned with events, poetry with feelings. Journalism is concerned with the look of the world, poetry with the feel of the world. Archibald MacLeish
feelings may messengers
And always I have this feeling--which may not be true at all--that I am being used as a messenger. Jane Goodall
feelings looks portraiture
When I paint a portrait I want to know more than just the looks of the person. I want to know how they live and what their feelings are... It then becomes more than just physiognomy, but the feel of the person. Jamie Wyeth
feelings littles delicate
I'm feeling a little delicate. Aung San Suu Kyi
feelings drink thirsty
Someone feeling wronged is like someone feeling thirsty. Don’t tell them they aren’t. Sit with them and have a drink. Daniel Handler
feelings matter doe
An Overall Feeling of Doom that One Cannot Ever Escape no Matter What One Does Daniel Handler
feelings hawks
Either you have the feeling or you don't. Hawk Davies Daniel Handler
feelings kitchen arriving
The evenings grew longer; kitchen windows stayed open after dinner and peepers could be heard in the marsh. Isabelle, stepping out to sweep her porch steps, felt absolutely certain that some wonderful change was arriving in her life. The strength of this belief was puzzling; what she was feeling, she decided, was really the presence of God. Elizabeth Strout
feelings mind literature
Whether it is the old lady's fear, or the many ghostly traditions of this place, or the crucifix itself, I do not know, but I am not feeling nearly as easy in my mind as usual. Bram Stoker