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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 two my-family
I take two hours off for my family every day. And then I write fourteen hours.
writing journalism sometimes
The best journalism is sometimes about footnotes—when we write small to say something big. Anthony Shadid
writing way controversy
There's always going to be controversy when you write the way I write. Ben Mezrich
writing emotional levels
When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level. Ben Marcus
writing reader
The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader. Ben Okri
writing night awake
I know I have to write about the things that keep me awake at night. Barbara Kingsolver
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.
writing funny-things discipline
It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
trying walking
I've been walking on eggshells and trying not to badmouth any other candidates. Jim Mowen
trying
I've been trying to play old-lady parts since I was in my 20s, so I look forward to all of that. Melissa McCarthy
trying
I've been trying to get it done for a long time.
trying
I've been trying to find someone for a year,
trying
I've been doing a lot of stuff that has to do with charity and giving. I'm trying to give and not take as much. Mark Indelicato
trying understood
I understood that he was trying to get to third, Jimmy Rollins
trying
Things are working well. We're always trying to improve, though. Steve Ballmer
trying wind
the wind was just clawing at the window, trying to get in. Sanjay Gupta
trying
This could be it. Or he could go one more year. I don't see him trying to go too many more after this. Darren Sharper
narrative stories one-liner
If you do weave one-liners into a story, you have to have an overall story as well, otherwise it doesn't really count as narrative. Tim Vine
narrative
I tried to control the narrative. Lance Armstrong
narrative bones breaking-things
The bone-breaking thing is something that I put in many narratives. Guy Maddin
narrative way rooms
In every debate, whatever the format, whatever the questions, there is one and only one way to identify the winner: Who commands the room? Who drives the narrative? Who is in charge? Jeff Greenfield
narrative information flow
Novelists have to be adept at controlling the flow of information, and, most crucially, they have to be in charge of the narrative. Ian Mcewan
narrative attention entering
What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences. Terry Tempest Williams
narratives
A lot of the drive to make narratives came from having to play by myself as a 5- or 6-year-old in the woods. Matthew Tobin Anderson
narrative
I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find it. Djuna Barnes
narrative
Narrative is one of the best intoxicants or tranquilisers. A. S. Byatt