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I'm an internet junkie. There, I said it. That's the first step, right? I also have a thing for making lists. Oh man, nothing beats turning to a fresh, clean page in a notebook, taking out a nice pen, and starting a list. There's so much potential there. So much to do, so little time! So hey, why not spend some of that time making a list.
Adam Christopher
Time
Man
Internet
First
Nothing
Nice
Spend
Hey
Pen
Out
Some
Potential
Clean
Beats
Step
Taking
Also
First Step
Fresh
Said
Making
List
Oh
Lists
Little
Notebook
Much
Turning
Page
Little Time
Why
Why Not
Right
Thing
Starting
I had a financial page to write in the Mail on Sunday where I'd give tips on shares. I worked there for two and a half years. Nothing compares to the burst of energy felt on a newsroom floor when a big story breaks.
Adam Faith
Financial
Sunday
Half
Big
Energy
Nothing
Give
Write
Mail
Had
Shares
Half Years
Felt
Years
Big Story
Tips
Where
Story
Burst
Breaks
Newsroom
Worked
Page
Compares
Floor
Two
On my Wikipedia page, it used to say I was born in Belfast, Ireland, then it said Belfast, Northern Ireland, and then it said Belfast, U.K. So there was a little war going on about where Belfast is located.
Adrian McKinty
War
Wikipedia
Say
Located
Born
About
Said
Ireland
Going
Northern
Northern Ireland
Where
Little
Then
Page
Used
Belfast
I huff and puff and struggle with every sentence, paragraph and page - sometimes every word as well.
Aidan Chambers
Struggle
Sometimes
Word
Every
Paragraph
Well
Sentence
Page
Puff
The first time I read a crime novel - I think it may have been an Elmore Leonard book - it took some time for me to realise how the genre worked. There were about 20 characters on the first page, and I wasn't used to this. I started to enjoy it when I saw that was how crime books worked.
Alastair Reynolds
Time
Me
Book
Crime
First
Enjoy
Think
Took
Books
Saw
Characters
Some
About
Genre
Read
First Time
How
Were
Been
May
Realise
Worked
Page
Used
Novel
Started
There's one massive problem with coming from writing novels into screenplays that I've discovered over the years, which is that you've got too much facility on the page.
Alex Garland
You
Writing
Problem
Too Much
Too
Facility
Over
Massive
Got
Coming
Years
Discovered
Screenplays
Which
Much
Page
Novels
Of any guitarist, Jimmy Page was my biggest influence. I wanted to look, think and play like him. Zeppelin had a heavy influence on Rush during our early days. Page's loose style of playing showed an immense confidence, and there are no rules to his playing.
Alex Lifeson
Confidence
Guitarist
Style
Think
Our
Jimmy
Rules
Immense
Rush
No Rules
Had
Days
Like
Look
Him
Loose
His
Any
Influence
Heavy
Wanted
Biggest
Biggest Influence
Page
Zeppelin
Play
Early
Playing
Early Days
For a memoir to really succeed, the author has to do such hard work before they come to the page. They have to do a brutal self-examination of everything they believe to be true.
Alexandra Fuller
Work
Hard Work
Be True
Before
Believe
Everything
Memoir
Brutal
True
Come
Self-Examination
Author
Succeed
Really
Page
Hard
All we need to do, reader or writer, from first line to final page, is be as open as a book, and be alive to the life in language - on all its levels.
Ali Smith
Life
Book
Language
First
Final
Alive
Writer
Open
Reader
Line
Page
Levels
Need
The relationship with the words someone uses is more intimate and integrated than just a quick read and a blurb can ever be. This intimacy - the words on the page being sent back and forth from engaged editor to open author - is unique in my experience.
Alice Sebold
Relationship
Experience
Words
Back
Intimacy
Intimate
Someone
More
Open
Read
Editor
Integrated
Quick
Than
Author
Just
Being
Sent
Forth
Page
Engaged
Uses
Unique
Ever
Old Arabic books, printed in Bulaq, generally have a broad margin wherein a separate work, independent of the text, adds gloom to the page.
Ameen Rihani
Work
Old
Broad
Books
Adds
Independent
Arabic
Generally
Gloom
Printed
Text
Wherein
Separate
Page
Margin
To write what is not dead on the page, one has to be open to all kinds of disturbances and challenges and confusion.
Amitava Kumar
Challenges
Confusion
Kinds
Write
Open
Dead
Page
I do not go on my Wikipedia page. There's just too much weird information on there for me to pick apart.
Amos Lee
Me
Too Much
Too
Wikipedia
Pick
Weird
Go
Just
Information
Apart
Much
Page
My older brother and I read all the time. My father read, but only things related to religion. One year, he did read a set of stories that was called something like '365 Stories' out loud to us. They followed a family for the year, a page a day. They were about kids with simple problems - like a wheel coming off their bicycle.
Amy Tan
Time
Day
Family
Religion
Simple
Problems
Father
Bicycle
Year
Older
Related
Kids
Out
Brother
Followed
About
Something
Only
He
Like
Read
Coming
Were
Off
Loud
Did
Wheel
Stories
Us
Page
Older Brother
Things
Set
That's the number one thing for a guy for a new coach coming in. You've really got to buy into the system and believe it's going to work because, if you don't, it's going to cause conflict, and you're not always going to be on the same page as the other guys on the team or with the coach.
Andre Iguodala
Work
Buy
You
Conflict
Cause
Believe
Other
System
One Thing
Guy
Guys
New
Because
Always
Got
Coming
Same
Going
Same Page
Really
Coach
Page
Team
Thing
Number
It's very clear that Mr. DeSantis is taking a page directly from the campaign manual of Donald Trump.
Andrew Gillum
Directly
Clear
Taking
Trump
Campaign
Very
Donald
Donald Trump
Page
Manual
The big thing in favor of doing an editorial on the front page is that it would be a powerful signal of how concerned we are about guns.
Andrew Rosenthal
Big
Favor
Signal
Would
Would-Be
Guns
About
Powerful
Concerned
How
Editorial
Doing
Front
Front Page
Big Thing
Page
Thing
You can look at my books and not find particular joy on every page because, of course, what you want to write about is the difficulty of the human experience. You don't want to lie about things to make happy endings and weddings if they don't deserve to happen. But I would be lying if I didn't try to communicate some of the pleasure of being alive.
Andrew Sean Greer
You
Happy
Experience
Lie
Joy
Communicate
Try
Every
Difficulty
Lying
Books
Pleasure
Alive
Would
Would-Be
Find
Some
About
Weddings
Write
Particular
Look
Make
Course
Because
Endings
Human
Being
Want
Happen
Human Experience
Page
Deserve
Things
I always wanted to write a page of history with PSG.
Angel Di Maria
History
Write
Always
Wanted
Page
I have a Twitter account; I have a fantastic Facebook page.
Angus King
Facebook
Twitter
Account
Fantastic
Page
I have a Facebook page and a website. Beyond that, I'm actually a very private person. I'd rather see the focus on the books than on me.
Anita Shreve
Website
Me
Facebook
Focus
Books
See
Rather
Beyond
Private
Private Person
Very
Than
Person
Page
Actually
It's wonderful to return to 'Peaky Blinders.' We're all here for the right reasons - to work and do justice to what's written on the page.
Annabelle Wallis
Work
Justice
Wonderful
Right Reasons
Written
Return
Blinders
Page
Reasons
Right
Here
I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin.
Anne Tyler
Events
Long
Chapters
Characters
Paragraph
Write
Delving
Ready
Begin
Maybe
After
Breaking
Then
Page
Pages
Describing
Two
You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Me
You
Chapter
Will
First
Intolerable
Must
Finds
Only
First One
Sure
Am
Been
Length
Us
Really
Page
Agree
Second
I had the pleasure of working for 'The Late Show' with O'Brien when I was an NBC page at 30 Rockefeller Center, and it was always so much fun.
Ashlan Gorse Cousteau
Late
Pleasure
Had
Always
Rockefeller
So Much Fun
Center
Much
Working
Page
Show
Fun
NBC
It may sound very strange, but I love the freedom that writing a novel gives me. It is an unhindered experience. If I come after a bad day, I can decide that my protagonist will die on page 100 of my novel in a 350-page story.
Ashwin Sanghi
Love
Day
Freedom
Me
Strange
Experience
Writing
Will
Bad Day
Bad
Gives
Come
Protagonist
Sound
Very
Die
May
After
Decide
Story
Page
Novel
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