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It thrills me to write reference letters for enterprising founders who are looking to get visas to start their companies here, to create value and jobs for these United States.
Alexis Ohanian
Me
Value
Looking
States
Enterprising
Jobs
Thrills
Write
Reference
Get
Create
Who
Companies
United
Letters
United States
Founders
Start
Here
I never got into using my phone's calendar. It's easier to write in my Tiffany day planner. There's something charming about having a datebook.
Ali Larter
Day
Phone
Easier
About
Something
Charming
Having
Write
Never
Calendar
Got
Planner
Using
I don't think it's good to say that you won't do certain things, but I don't necessarily have the natural urge to write.
Alia Shawkat
Good
You
Natural
Think
Say
Write
Urge
Certain
Certain Things
Things
Necessarily
I always think that you should be striving to write your best song.
Alice Cooper
Best
You
Song
Think
Striving
Write
Always
Should
Your
I feel more influenced in my own work by dreams than I do by other writers' works in a way. Or by popular culture, movies - what else is there to write about than love and loss?
Alice Hoffman
Work
Love
Dreams
Culture
Own
Other
Else
Way
About
My Own
More
Write
Writers
Feel
Loss
Than
Influenced
Movies
Popular
Works
Popular Culture
I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing.
Alice Hoffman
Time
You
Writing
Faster
Only
Write
Well
Learn
Stop
After
While
Much
Certain
Use
Your
Now
Amount
I like that original romance of having a pen and a legal pad and going anywhere in the world and being able to write a novel with just those two things.
Alice McDermott
Legal
World
Pen
Those
Able
Having
Write
Like
Going
Just
Romance
Being
Anywhere
Pad
Original
Novel
Things
Two
I wanted to write an upbeat song where I could feel good about the fact that I've moved around so much and not sad about all the goodbyes I've had to face.
Alice Merton
Sad
Good
Feel Good
Song
Face
About
Fact
Could
Write
Had
Feel
Around
Upbeat
Moved
Where
Wanted
Much
I started quite late. I only discovered that I could write a song when I was, like, 17... some musicians, they're starting out, writing songs when they're, like, 12, 13. I never thought I would go into songwriting when I was that young.
Alice Merton
Musicians
Song
Writing
Thought
Young
Late
Out
Would
Some
Only
Could
Write
Never
Songs
Songwriting
Like
Go
Discovered
Quite
Started
Starting
You don't really learn how to write songs; you learn to develop as a writer, and you get to meet lots of musicians and figure out what kind of sound you want. You have the time to just develop and try different styles, and that's what I did.
Alice Merton
Time
You
Musicians
Try
Meet
Out
Kind
Write
Writer
Develop
Songs
Learn
Styles
How
Sound
Lots
Get
Did
Just
Different
Want
Really
Figure
Different Styles
One is lucky to be born in a place where no one is doing it, because then you can say, 'Well, obviously I can write better than everyone else in high school.' You have no idea of the competition.
Alice Munro
You
Competition
Better
School
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
Say
High
Born
High School
No Idea
Write
No-One
Idea
Obviously
Well
Because
Doing
Than
Where
Place
Then
Lucky
Why do I like to write short stories? Well, I certainly didn't intend to. I was going to write a novel. And still! I still come up with ideas for novels. And I even start novels. But something happens to them. They break up. I look at what I really want to do with the material, and it never turns out to be a novel.
Alice Munro
Out
Something
Write
Never
Come
Like
Ideas
Look
Well
Material
Still
Up
Intend
Going
Short
Want
Stories
Break
Break Up
Short Stories
Happens
Them
Really
Turns
Certainly
Even
Novel
Novels
Why
Start
I no longer feel attracted to the well-made novel. I want to write the story that will zero in and give you intense, but not connected, moments of experience. I guess that's the way I see life. People remake themselves bit by bit and do things they don't understand.
Alice Munro
Life
You
Experience
People
Will
Guess
Way
Bit
See
Give
Remake
Write
Feel
Longer
Attracted
Understand
Intense
Want
Story
Themselves
Connected
Moments
Novel
Zero
Things
I was motivated to write about violence because I believe it's not unusual. I see it as just a part of life, and I think we get in trouble when we separate people who've experienced it from those who haven't.
Alice Sebold
Life
People
Trouble
Believe
Think
Those
See
About
Write
Part
Unusual
Because
Motivated
Get
Just
Experienced
Separate
Who
Violence
I'm gradually working through my obsessions, and maybe, when they're all free and clear, I'll write a comedy. But I'm not there yet.
Alice Sebold
Comedy
Free
Through
Write
Clear
Obsessions
Gradually
Maybe
Working
Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence.
Alice Walker
Sometimes
Reading
Spell
Crippled
See
Write
Generations
Longer
Blog
Been
American
Which
Sentence
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
Alice Walker
Art
Good
Me
Book
Better
Matter
Live
Earth
Way
Say
Bad
Write
Writers
Deliver
Make
Sure
Person
Then
Us
Good Book
Who
It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.
Alice Walker
Will
Become
Critics
Case
Write
Adult
Healthier
Mature
Than
Any
Often
Children
I write music visually.
Alison Mosshart
Music
Write
It is not about writing those hits again. I am sure I could write them, but it is about the sensibilities.
Alison Moyet
Writing
Those
About
Could
Write
Sure
Am
Hits
Sensibilities
Again
Them
One of the things I wanted to do with 'The Turn' was write a production of songs that could be stripped down to one or two instruments if you chose to do it.
Alison Moyet
You
Down
Stripped
One Of The Things
One Or Two
Could
Write
Songs
Instruments
Wanted
Turn
Production
Chose
Things
Two
With 'Suffragette,' I felt that a female writer would be good, and considering the subject matter, who would be better to write the script than Abi Morgan? She was the first choice, and she happens to be a woman.
Alison Owen
Good
Woman
Better
Matter
First
Considering
Would
Would-Be
Morgan
Write
Writer
She
Felt
Female
Subject
Subject Matter
Than
Happens
Script
Choice
Who
The most common time I write lyrics is the middle of the night.
Alissa White-Gluz
Time
Lyrics
Write
Most
Common
Middle
Night
Shortly after Pearl Harbor, FDR committed a most visionary act: He appointed a Harvard historian to write the official account of the U.S. Navy in World War II. Samuel Eliot Morison was given the rank of lieutenant commander, with the right to interview anyone of whatever status.
Alistair Horne
War
World
Whatever
Interview
Rank
Visionary
Harvard
Status
Lieutenant
Given
Write
He
Most
Commander
Historian
Account
Official
Committed
Anyone
After
Samuel
Act
Harbor
Navy
Right
Pearl
Pearl Harbor
Appointed
World War
World War II
Mrs. Miniver was an ordinary middle-class English housewife, a character created by Jan Struther when she was commissioned by the 'Times of London' to write a weekly 'cheer-up' article in 1937.
Alistair Horne
Character
London
Weekly
Write
She
Housewife
Times
Article
Commissioned
Ordinary
Created
English
Today there is a division between those who write about literature and those who create it. I, obviously, don't think that should be there.
Alistair MacLeod
Today
Think
Those
About
Write
Division
Between
Obviously
Literature
Create
Should
Who
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