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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.
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.
writing names errors
I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of the twentieth century. Perhaps in the end he will conclude that the multitude of errors committed in the name of Munich may exceed the original error of 1938. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
writing language clarity
Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.
editors want mail
I want to be a writer. I do not want to spend 40 hours a week handling e-mails, formatting covers, finding editors, etc. Amanda Hocking
editors brain firsts
Editors always amputate the brain first and preserve a good-looking corpse. Robert Anton Wilson
editors giving likes
You have to give an editor something to change, or he gets fretful. After he pees in it, he likes the flavor better, so he buys it. Robert A. Heinlein
editors careers tree
But human deciding what to eat without professional guidance - something they have been doing with notable success since coming down out of the trees - is seriously unprofitable if you're a food company, a definite career loser if you're nutritionist, and just plain boring if you're a newspaper editor or reporter. Michael Pollan
editors agents phases
After Ive sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months. Margaret Haddix
editors facts readership
If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have. Pat Oliphant
editors horror critics
The reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror. Flannery O'Connor
editors biographies pleasure
It is also one of the pleasures of oral biography, in that the reader, rather than editor, is jury. George Plimpton
editors giving safe
Busy editors cannot be expected to put on their posters, "Mr. Wilkinson Still Safe," or "Mr. Jones, of Worthing, Not Dead Yet." They cannot announce the happiness of mankind at all. They cannot describe all the forks that are not stolen, or all the marriages that are not judiciously dissolved. Hence the complex picture they give of life is of necessity fallacious; they can only represent what is unusual. Gilbert K. Chesterton
talking
This is something we need to do a lot more talking about. Mel Kohn
talking listening roles
We should all know this: that listening, not talking, is the gifted and great role, and the imaginative role. Brenda Ueland
talking people different-opinions
No matter what it is, if you get 10 people in the business talking about something, you get 10 different opinions, but you know, they're amazingly well informed. James Woods
talking justice development
Peace, development, and justice are all connected to each other. We cannot talk about economic development without talking about peace. How can we expect economic development in a battlefield? Aung San Suu Kyi
talking bird waiting
The virus in the movie 'Contagion' is based on the bird flu which came out of nowhere back in 2008. Everyone thought it was going to change the way we live and it just faded away. Wait a minute, I'm talking about President Obama. Craig Ferguson
talking asking want
Whatever the press is talking about, they want to keep talking about it. So instead of asking yourself, 'How can I get them to start talking about me?', figure out a way to get yourself involved in what they're already talking about. Brian Chesky
talking win
There's no win for us in talking about this. James Hansen
talking goes-on needs
I wanted her to to go on talking and understand without me saying anything. I wanted her to love me enough to leave him, to pack us up and take us away from him, to kill him if need be. (107) Dorothy Allison
talking mouths sake
I don't talk for the sake of talking. I do become intoxicated with sound. When I open my mouth, it's to say something. Adolf Hitler