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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 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 should more-money
A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)? Brian Aldiss
writing way better-person
the only way to become a better writer is to become a better person. Brenda Ueland
writing exercise perspective
The writing of an assay-type poem or a poem investigating perspective isn't an exercise of rational or strategic mind. Poems for me are acts of small or large desperation. They grapple with surfaces too steep to walk in any other way, yet which have to be traveled. Jane Hirshfield
writing sitting-still wish
I wish I could write while I'm on the road but it never works for me. I need to be sitting still. Jami Attenberg
writing emotional historical-novels
I've been told by people who write historical novels that you just sort of write the emotional truth first, the story at the core, and then you go back and research it at the end. Jami Attenberg
writing creative producers
I do a lot of co-writing with my producer RedOne, and then a lot on my own. I just like to be creative. Austin Mahone
writing needs gypsy
I need to keep traveling, being a gypsy, having experiences and writing about them. Delta Goodrem
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 horror critics
The reviewer always has hold of the wrong horror. Flannery O'Connor
editors fingers crops
Always point your finger at the chest of the person with whom you are being photographed. You will appear dynamic. And no photo editor can crop you from the picture. Ken Auletta
editors years clue
I've had editors over the years who couldn't find a clue if it was stapled to their butt. Len Wein
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
talking voice listening
You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. If you're grasping to get your own voice, you're making a strained attempt to talk, so it's a matter of just listening to yourself as you sound when you're talking about something that's intensely important to you. Allen Ginsberg
talking want conversation
Interviewing is a lot like talking, but you have to guide the conversation. You have to know what you want and go about getting it. Anthony DeCurtis
talking
Learning never takes place while you're talking. Andy Stanley
talking giving people
I usually, if I give a talk, I don't usually prepare anything. I just say - you know, I may stop talking by showing some video or slides of what I do but mainly I try to respond to what problems people have with my work. Robert Barry
talking tv-shows way
Nobody's talking about movies the way they're talking about their favorite TV shows. Steven Soderbergh
talking people film
But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses. Steven Soderbergh