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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.
novel reader
She had always been an unashamed reader of novels ... Barbara Pym
novelists footnotes
Novelists never have to footnote. Jane Smiley
novel reader possessed
The main thing about the novel that is totally fascinating: It's not possessed by the writer; it's possessed by the reader.
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
novel
I don't very often read novels. Sidney Poitier
novel felt written
I suppose I have written novels to find out what I thought about something and poems to find out what I felt about something. May Sarton
ready wait
Ready or not, here it comes. It's not going to wait for us. Frank Robinson
ready whenever
Really I'm just getting ready to pitch, whenever that is. Jeff Suppan
ready
Definitely. It's going to be a fast-paced game, and we'll be ready for it. Robert Dozier
ready step system
The system he has is set up for the underclassmen to step up. When you're a senior, you're ready to be a leader.
ready somebody
Somebody that's 0-8 or someone 8-0, it doesn't make any difference, you have got to be ready to play in this conference. Ray Scott
ready sail
Sail her well, ... I am ready to be relieved.
ready
It was an ER in there at 6:30, getting me ready to go out. Jake Peavy
ready trip
It was about like getting ready for a trip to the dentist. Rick Barnes
ready
I've been working out every day and I feel very strong. I'm ready to go.