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“The first draft is just a skeleton-just bare bones. It's like the very first rehearsal of a play, where the director moves the actors around mechanically to get a feel of the action.”

Author:Dean Koontz

“I'm not sure that it's possible to write a novel about people who don't transgress or stumble, people who don't surprise themselves with the things they do, people who can explain all their actions with perfect logical consistency. At least it's not possible for me to write that sort of novel.”

People Writing Action Perfect Novel Surprise Not Sure Logical Consistency

Author:Tom Perrotta

“Maybe I would have become an actor. I was a very outgoing kid, but being in the hospital - being outside of social action for so long - turned me into an observer. Actually, right after I got out of the hospital, I did start writing a novel, but the book was so transparently about me that I stopped.”

Writing Long Book Kids Action Actors Social Novel Hospitals Observers Outgoing Social Action

Author:Brent Runyon

“Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others.”

Writing Mean Character Action Turns Reading Imagination Lines Deals Fiction Paradox Fiction Writing

Author:Amy Waldman

“I think you will agree that I am alive in every part of this book; turn back twenty, thirty, one hundred pages - I am back there. That is why I hate the story; characters are not snakes that they must shed their skins on every page - there can only be one action: what a man is. When you have understood this, you will be through with novels.”

Thinking Men Writing Book Character Stories Action Hate Turns Novel Alive Pages Understood Hundred Skins I Hate Twenties Agree Thirty Shed Snakes I Am Alive

Author:Kenneth Patchen

“Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.”

Writing Action Produce

Author:Paul J. Meyer

“You usually find me writing what I like to think of as intelligent summer action and genre films.”

Thinking Writing Action Film Summer Intelligent Genre Find Me

Author:Max Landis

“We should be writing more great roles for women, period. Another problem is that movies are generally made for 14-year-old boys, and 14-year-old boys want to watch 25-year-old action heroes.”

Want Should Writing Years Made Problem Action Boys Roles Watches Hero Periods Action Heroes

Author:James Mangold

“The storyboard artists job is to plan out shot for shot the whole show, write all the dialog, and decide the mood, action, jokes, pacing, etc of every scene.”

Writing Whole Shows Action Jobs Artist Plans Scene Jokes Shots Mood Etc Pacing

Author:Craig McCracken

“I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain.”

Writing Action Built Academic Domain Academic Writing

Book:The Essential Writings

Source: The Essential Writings

“Do not write a check with your tongue that your actions cannot cash.”

Inspirational Writing Action Tongue Checks Cash

Author:Neal A. Maxwell

“My words, my writing, my actions—these have never been for myself alone, either directly or indirectly. There is no such thing as an artist who creates art only for himself. That is masturbation.”

Writing Art Action Artist Masturbation

Book:The Mute's Soliloquy: A Memoir

Source: The Mute's Soliloquy: A Memoir

“I would say that since I was nine years old I've always wanted to write and direct horror movies and action movies. There's never been a time in my life where that wasn't all I wanted to do.”

Writing Years Action Wanted Horror Direct Nine Nine Years Action Movie

Author:Jay Baruchel

“For those that love the world serve it in action, Grow rich, popular, and full of influence; And should they paint or write still is it action, The struggle of the fly in marmalade.”

World Should Writing Stills Action Grows Struggle Rich Influence Paint Marmalade

Book:Selected Poems And Four Plays

Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays

“It is precisely the sort of thing I am always trying to do in my writing -- to present my unhappy reader with a wide-ranged chaos -- of actions and reactions, thoughts, memories and feelings -- in the vain hope that at the end he will see that the whole thing represents only one moment, one feeling, one person. A raging, trumpeting jungle of associations, and then I announce at the end of it, with a gesture of despair, "This is I!”

Writing Trying Persons Ends Whole Moments Feelings Action Memories Reader Despair Chaos Wide Rage Unhappy Reactions Vain Association Gestures Jungle Always Trying Action And Reaction

Book:Blue Voyage: A Novel

Source: Blue Voyage: A Novel

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