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There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered with writing more than writing with school.
Amity Gaige
Work
Time
Writing
School
Would
Would-Be
More
Write
Got
Times
Than
Much
Interfered
I have the foundation to write, and then I go back and do research, and some of that might influence the recrafting of certain scenes.
Amor Towles
Research
Back
Some
Scenes
Write
Go
Influence
Might
Then
Certain
Foundation
When I sat down to write 'Rules of Civility,' I didn't write it for anybody but myself. I wasn't trying to make my mark or make money. I wasn't anxious about feeding my kids or whether my father would be proud of me.
Amor Towles
Myself
Me
Money
Father
Down
Mark
Rules
Kids
Would
Would-Be
About
Civility
Write
Feeding
Make
Proud
Trying
Anxious
Anybody
Whether
Sat
Every time I write a song I feel really lucky and kind of surprised. Not surprised that I wrote it, but just surprised that things exist that you don't know about.
Amos Lee
Time
You
Song
Every
Every Time
Kind
About
Write
Feel
Know
Wrote
Surprised
Exist
Just
Really
Lucky
Things
I think all writers are mainly writing for themselves because I believe that most writers are writing based on a need to write. But at the same time, I feel that writers are, of course, writing for their readers, too.
Amy Bloom
Time
Writing
Believe
Think
Too
All Writers
Write
Writers
Mainly
Feel
Most
Readers
Course
Because
Same
Same Time
Themselves
Based
Need
I do my business in the morning, and then at 2 P.M., I write fiction for the rest of the day. I like my husband, so I don't work at weekends.
Amy Bloom
Work
Day
Morning
Business
Rest
Husband
Weekends
Write
Like
Fiction
Then
I get to tell the most interesting stories I know how to tell with the most interesting sentences I know how to compose - and people who aren't related to me read them. To be paid to write things that matter to me is extraordinary.
Amy Bloom
Me
People
Matter
Related
Extraordinary
Tell
Compose
Write
Know
Most
Read
How
Get
Stories
Interesting
Them
Sentences
Interesting Stories
Paid
Who
Things
I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb.
Amy Bloom
Smart
Find
No Reason
Write
Readers
Dumb
Very
Reason
Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.
Amy Clampitt
Women
Mad
Something
Poetry
Inspired
Write
Being
Being Mad
Who
Inclined
I don't like scaring people off. When I tell people I'm a writer, they look kind of interested. Then I tell them that I write poetry, and they think I'm weird.
Amy Gerstler
People
Think
Tell
Kind
Scaring
Poetry
Write
Writer
Weird
Like
Look
Off
Interested
Them
Then
Most people who write and publish poetry teach or do something else.
Amy Gerstler
People
Publish
Else
Something
Something Else
Poetry
Write
Most
Teach
Who
I don't write to create performance material; I write to make books.
Amy Gerstler
Books
Write
Performance
Make
Material
Create
I write about everything, but I just - how faith filters through all that and colors your opinion of other people and life and all that.
Amy Grant
Life
Faith
People
Other
Filters
Everything
About
Through
Write
Colors
Opinion
How
Just
Your
To me, it's all about the song. Songs are what make me excited. You hear a great song and you want to record it or get a great idea and you want to write it.
Amy Grant
Great
Me
You
Song
Great Idea
Record
About
Write
Songs
Excited
Great Song
Idea
Make
Hear
Get
Want
I attended Art & Design High School, and at one point, you had to write about what you wanted to be when you grew up. I wrote that I wanted to be a writer for 'Mad' magazine.
Amy Heckerling
Art
You
School
Design
Mad
High
Magazine
High School
About
Point
Write
Writer
Had
Attended
Wrote
Up
Wanted
Grew
I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write fiction. So I did journalism because there were rules I could learn. You can teach someone to write a news story. They might not write a great one, but you can teach that pretty easily.
Amy Hempel
Great
News
You
Writing
Related
Circling
Rules
Easily
Pretty
No Idea
Someone
Great One
Small
Could
Write
Had
Idea
Journalism
Learn
Because
How
Doing
Were
Itself
Did
Closer
Getting
Fiction
Story
News Story
Might
Teach
Thing
Things
Started
Obviously, in journalism, you're confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it's in us. It makes things more interesting, a closer call. But journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one.
Amy Hempel
Me
You
Embellish
Would
Someone
More
Tendency
Write
Journalism
Obviously
Make
Call
Read
Makes
How
Closer
Taught
Confined
Want
Happens
Interesting
Sentence
Us
Next
Things
As an intern for Vice President Walter Mondale, I arrived the first day ready to write policy memos and change the world... but my assignment was doing an inventory of the furniture.
Amy Klobuchar
Day
Change
World
First
Change The World
President
Furniture
Inventory
Write
Policy
Ready
Doing
Arrived
Vice
Vice President
Intern
Assignment
I write by myself initially. That's the way I've always written, just working on pure thought by myself. Then I bring it to the table with whoever I'm collaborating with.
Amy Lee
Myself
Thought
Pure
Collaborating
Way
Table
Write
Written
Always
Just
Then
Working
Whoever
Initially
Bring
If you want to be taken seriously and gain credibility, you really do have to try and write yourself. I don't want to do an album of covers and stuff.
Amy Nuttall
You
Yourself
Try
Seriously
Write
Taken
Stuff
Covers
Want
Gain
Really
Credibility
Album
If you do a scene and you really like a character in it or a premise in it to write it down and to work on it so that you can have five or six characters that you can pull out in an audition.
Amy Poehler
Work
Character
You
Down
Out
Characters
Scene
Write
Like
Audition
Five
Six
Really
Premise
Pull
You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable.
Amy Tan
Hope
Me
You
Book
Will
Somebody
Miserable
Pay
Think
Saved
Books
Out
Write
Said
Go
Were
Salvation
Just
Being
I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life.
Amy Tan
Life
Alien
Thought
My Life
First
Jazz
Tried
Write
Take
Also
Making
Making Up
Were
Up
Did
Improvisational
Fiction
While
Lessons
Things
Playing
I wanted to write stories for myself. At first it was purely an aesthetic thing about craft. I just wanted to become good at the art of something. And writing was very private.
Amy Tan
Art
Myself
Good
Writing
First
Become
Purely
About
Something
Write
Aesthetic
Private
Very
Craft
Just
Wanted
Stories
Thing
I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel.'
Amy Waldman
Thinking
Write
Around
Years
Years Ago
Sitting
Want
Really
Novel
If you're nice to me I'll never write anything bad about you.
Amy Winehouse
Me
You
Nice
Bad
About
Write
Never
Anything
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