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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 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 perfect
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
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 names wave
We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away. Augustus
writing thinking secret
The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work. Augusten Burroughs
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 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
facts fish giving life telling
Telling a teen-ager the facts of life is like giving a fish a bath. Arnold Glasow
facts false individual information intended people trying
This is not intended to give false confidence. It's really about trying to get people the facts and information they need so they can make individual decisions.
facts destination fine
What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.
facts ethical states
The State, in fact, as the universal ethical will, is the creator of right. Benito Mussolini
facts fiction sometimes
Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction Carol Alt
facts fountainhead rules-for-radicals
It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith. Saul Alinsky
facts machines arithmetic
That arithmetic is the basest of all mental activities is proved by the fact that it is the only one that can be accomplished by a machine. Arthur Schopenhauer
facts human intense value vision
The only human value of anything, writing included, is intense vision of the facts. William Williams
facts people
There's just a lot of facts that people don't have about Pittsburgh.