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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 aids alliteration
Who often, but without success, have prayed for apt Alliteration's artful aid. Charles Churchill
writing imagination fiction
Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not just the intellect, but the imagination. Charles Colson
writing men thinking
People complain of the unequal distribution of wealth [but it is a far greater] injustice that any one man should have the power to write so many brilliant essays... There is no one who writes like [Thomas Huxley]. Charles Darwin
writing suspense ends
Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself. Jane Austen
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 science-fiction
Science fiction is not prescriptive; it is descriptive. Ursula K. Le Guin
fiction science-fiction science-love
I love science fiction. Moon Bloodgood
fiction stories world
Fiction is like that, once it is released into the world: contagious, persistent. Like the contents of Pandora's box, a story that's freely given can't be contained anymore. It becomes infectious, spreading from the person who created it to the person who listens, and passes it on. Jodi Picoult
fiction scientist obsessed
I grew up obsessed with science fiction, and when I was really young, I wanted to be a scientist. Moby
fiction belief moral
Crime fiction confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehensible, and moral universe. P. D. James