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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 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 down-and ritual
My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day. Augusten Burroughs
writing language clarity
Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
writing i-can ifs
If I see an ending, I can work backward. Arthur Miller
writing winning hands
It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while other write history. It matters little who wins. Benito Mussolini
writing winning hands
It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
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-novels fantasy-novels science-fiction
I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels. Matthew Tobin Anderson
fiction film made
'Pulp Fiction' is an amazing film, and I haven't made one nearly as good. Martin McDonagh
fiction requirements reason-why
The reason why truth is so much stranger than fiction is that there is no requirement for it to be consistent. Mark Twain
fiction science-fiction force
You cannot create new science unless you realise where the old science leaves off and new science begins, and science fiction forces us to confront this. Michio Kaku
fiction mystery human-life
... the main concern of the fiction writer is with mystery as it is incarnated in human life. Flannery O'Connor