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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 perfect
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now. Barbara Kingsolver
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 i-can ifs
If I see an ending, I can work backward. Arthur Miller
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 ideas factual
I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be factual. Jan Morris
writing discovery language
No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language. Benjamin Disraeli
fiction honest aim
The aim of fiction is absolute and honest truth. Anton Chekhov
fiction ground los reality
What I do now is I write fiction. I ground my fiction in the reality of a place called Los Angeles. Michael Connelly
fiction kind film
There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films. Ray Bradbury
fiction imagine terrible
I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life with a variety of convenient fictions. Siri Hustvedt
fiction elements literature
Fiction, on the whole, and if it is any good, tends to be a subversive element in society. Fay Weldon
fiction fantasy mystery
Yes - 90% of fantasy is crap. And so is 90% of science fiction and 90% of mystery fiction and 90% of literary fiction. George R. R. Martin
fiction garbage subway
The fiction of Ayn Rand is as low as you can get re fiction. I hope you picked it up off the floor of the subway and threw it in the nearest garbage pail. She makes Mickey Spillane look like Dostoevsky. Flannery O'Connor
fiction world ends
That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system. Gary Shteyngart
fiction hell intense
The memoirs I love are all very intense. If you're going to do a memoir and protect yourself, what the hell's the point? Just do fiction.