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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 two my-family
I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.
writing journalism sometimes
The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big. Anthony Shadid
writing way controversy
There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write. Ben Mezrich
writing emotional levels
When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level. Ben Marcus
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 funny-things discipline
It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
boys children definitely eventually gradually leave might soon stand starting supposed
As children get older, they are supposed to gradually stand more and more on their own and eventually completely leave the nest. My boys are definitely starting to do that. Soon I might actually go on a date. Dirk Benedict
boys excellent
The boys and (David) did an excellent job, Bonita Favre
boys build hang happened happening huge kick lead malcolm race realized second start team time year
The boys' race was over in the first 800 meters. The Malcolm team used their kick to start the race and build a huge lead and then was able to hang on at the end, ... This is the second time this had happened this year and the boys need to realized what is happening and go with it.
boys good job nice played playing
The boys played well. They did a nice job of playing good lacrosse.
boys gaining improving played senior steadily team
The boys played an exceptional ballgame. We are a young team with only one senior and a lot of young players, but we are steadily improving and gaining confidence.
boys good picked position puts win
The boys picked up a big win for themselves. This puts us in good position for our sectional tournament.
boys fun picked
The boys picked me up. It was fun to be part of. Jake Peavy
boys decade entertain full heroes higher partly players
The Boys of Summer were heroes in Brooklyn for a full postwar decade partly because the players could not entertain higher offers. George Vecsey
boys named ran
The boys named him because I ran out of names.
novelists footnotes
Novelists never have to footnote. Jane Smiley
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
novelists academic written
I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically. A. S. Byatt
novelists males
Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist. Curtis Sittenfeld
novelists
In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially. Ray Bradbury