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I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic.

— Daniel Alarcon

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

When faced with something complex, spend the time to think about some structure, write down sentences, think about it some more, and then share it.

— Steven Sinofsky

To write you have to be able to know how to put words together.

— Catherine Asaro

My brain kind of works in steps. I have to go through things and then process them and then write about them. I have to understand them first.

— Kehlani

I have a hard time revising sentences, because I spend an inordinate amount of time on each sentence, and the sentence before it, and the sentence after it.

— Chang-Rae Lee

I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.

— Anne Enright

I've written what and when I want to. It's been about expressing myself. But with the degree, I had to learn to do everything in a very specific, disciplined way. I am very disciplined, but this demanded a totally different kind of discipline. A real challenge.

— Joan Armatrading

I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue.

— Steve Buscemi

It's very hard to articulate the things that are important about writing.

— Tim O'Brien

✗Opposing Perspectives

I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.

— Anthony Bourdain

I'm a language-oriented writer who proceeds sentence by sentence.

— Jayne Anne Phillips