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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
firsts said wanted
I always said that though I was the first, I wanted to be the first of many. Barbara Mikulski
firsts formula-1 auto-racing
Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose. Ayrton Senna
firsts feels taggart
Do it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart Ayn Rand
firsts
You are always free to choose what you do first, what you do second, and what you do not do at all Brian Tracy
firsts put-first-things-first thrown
Put first things first and second things are thrown in. Put second things first and you lose both first and second things. C. S. Lewis
firsts bars bills
When I come out and sing the first few bars of Bill Bailey, it's very exciting Bobby Darin
firsts saws migraine
After I saw the first thing I ever did, I got a migraine. Claire Forlani
firsts
The only thing better than going to Pitcairn in the first place, is going again. Billy Campbell
firsts succeed motto
A motto I've adopted is, if at first you don't succeed, hide all evidence that you ever tried. Billy Collins
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