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I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well.
Andrew Motion
Saying
Good
Me
Meeting
Pleasure
Libraries
Archives
Poetry
Write
Well
Sort
Makes
Doing
Go
Precisely
Want
Board
Really
Thing
Museums
I want to write poems which are very emotional, but I would have some hesitation in saying I want to write poems which are sentimental.
Andrew Motion
Saying
Hesitation
Would
Some
Poems
Write
Emotional
Very
Want
Which
Sentimental
I write between 5.30am and 9.00. That way, I hope I carry over something from my dream time.
Andrew Motion
Hope
Time
Way
Carry
Dream
Something
Write
Between
Over
But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.
Andrew Motion
Me
Strict
Free
Big
Ways
No Big Deal
Poem
Poems
Both
Poets
Write
Free Verse
Deal
Big Deal
Verse
Lot
Very
Modern
Conventional
Form
Either
I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am.
Andrew Motion
Myself
Before
Tea
Mint
Some
Write
Up
Get
Starting
Two
I just thought making machines intelligent was the coolest thing you could do. I had a summer internship in AI in high school, writing neural networks at National University of Singapore - early versions of deep learning algorithms. I thought it was amazing you could write software that would learn by itself and make predictions.
Andrew Ng
You
Learning
Writing
School
Amazing
AI
Thought
National
Software
Summer
Machines
High
Would
High School
Networks
Neural
Could
Write
Had
Singapore
Make
Learn
Making
Versions
Itself
Intelligent
Just
Predictions
Deep
Coolest
Coolest Thing
Thing
Early
University
Some books inspire one to read, and some inspire one to write; for selfish reasons, I'm always looking for the latter.
Andrew Sean Greer
Selfish
Inspire
Looking
Books
Latter
Some
Write
Read
Always
Reasons
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
You write three pages over six hours, and you don't feel like you've gotten anywhere, but if you've done a beautiful metaphor or a lovely sentence, or you finally got to some moment you wanted, then that's worth it. Then you can close your computer and get a little relief.
Andrew Sean Greer
Beautiful
You
Worth
Three
Finally
Worth It
Relief
Some
Computer
Write
Feel
Over
Like
Hours
Got
Metaphor
Gotten
Close
Get
Done
Six
Wanted
Lovely
Anywhere
Little
Sentence
Then
Pages
Your
Moment
It's hard to tell if I've had writer's block because it seems to me that it's when nothing comes, but, you know, every day you stare at that computer screen, and I think, 'It's never going to happen today. How can I write three pages?' And the hours pass, and they haven't shown up, and then at the very end it always happens, so it's willpower.
Andrew Sean Greer
Today
Day
Me
You
Every Day
Three
Nothing
Every
Think
Tell
Willpower
Seems
Computer
Write
Writer
Computer Screen
Never
Had
Hours
Know
Because
Pass
Always
How
Block
End
Up
Very
Going
Screen
Happen
Happens
Then
Pages
Hard
Shown
Stare
I would write these novels about bullies in school: 'The Bullies: a Novel.'
Andrew Sean Greer
School
Would
About
Write
Bullies
Novel
Novels
Other writers know what you're going through, what you're talking about when you write.
Andrew Sean Greer
You
Other
About
Through
Write
Writers
Know
Talking
Going
To distract myself from writing, I was singing Bob Dylan's 'My Back Pages.' You know, 'I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now.' I thought, 'I should write a character like that.'
Andrew Sean Greer
Myself
Character
You
Writing
Thought
Distract
Singing
Older
Back
Write
Like
Know
Than
Dylan
Younger
Bob
Then
Much
Should
Pages
Now
You can sort of start to write around 10. You also become a good reader around that time, and you want to imitate the thing that you love. I got praise for it, and then I found that it was a great way of translating my life, so I would write little stories and plays and things. At that point, it was kids' books that I was reading.
Andrew Sean Greer
Life
Love
Time
Good
Great
You
My Life
Reading
Become
Imitate
Books
Way
Kids
Would
Point
Write
Also
Great Way
Reader
Sort
Around
Got
Praise
Want
Stories
Little
Then
Translating
Found
Thing
Things
Start
Plays
But there are definitely times when I just need to write to clarify my thoughts and put any doubts to bed.
Andrew Strauss
Thoughts
Definitely
Clarify
Write
Put
Bed
Times
Any
Just
Doubts
Need
Whenever I write about mental health and integrative therapies, I am accused of being prejudiced against pharmaceuticals. So let me be clear - integrative medicine is the judicious application of both conventional and evidence-based natural therapies.
Andrew Weil
Health
Me
Natural
Mental Health
Medicine
About
Mental
Both
Write
Clear
Am
Judicious
Accused
Whenever
Being
Conventional
Against
Prejudiced
Application
I wasn't predicted to be anything. I just followed an inner spirit, and it put me in the right place and the right time. I didn't want to be the mayor of Atlanta. I didn't want to run for Congress. I didn't want to work for Martin Luther King Jr. I wanted to work close to him and be a writer and write about the movement.
Andrew Young
Work
Time
Me
King
Congress
Right Place
Right Time
Run
Atlanta
Followed
Spirit
About
Martin
Martin Luther
Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King Jr
Write
Writer
Put
Him
Close
Just
Movement
Mayor
Want
Wanted
Anything
Predicted
Place
Right
Inner
Luther
You could almost write an opera about the selection of music directors for orchestras. The intrigues are really interesting, and then, at the end, the results are completely unexpected.
Andris Nelsons
Music
You
Intrigues
About
Directors
Results
Could
Write
Selection
Almost
Opera
End
Unexpected
Orchestra
Interesting
Then
Really
I don't think I necessarily am prepared to write about anybody else's life but mine.
Andy Biersack
Life
Think
Else
Mine
About
Write
Am
Anybody
Prepared
Necessarily
It's not hard to create a song, but to write a song that's really going affect somebody? That takes a hell of a lot of time.
Andy Grammer
Time
Song
Somebody
Hell
Write
Takes
Affect
Lot
Going
Create
Really
Hard
The first album was more born from busking - they were the 'me-and-my-guitar' songs. Going out on the road and opening for big acts changes you. You look out at those audiences and start to think, 'OK, I need to write some music that's a little bit bigger.'
Andy Grammer
Music
You
First
Big
Think
Changes
Bit
Those
OK
Out
Some
Born
More
Write
Songs
Road
Opening
Look
Audiences
Were
Going
Bigger
Little
Little Bit
Acts
Start
Album
Need
It's a weird business. You're trying to write something that's built on magic, which is pretty stressful.
Andy Grammer
You
Business
Pretty
Magic
Something
Write
Weird
Built
Trying
Which
Stressful
There are pretty girls all over the place. But there are still a lot of people standing strong, doing their thing in loving relationships, actually staying true. I wanted to write an honest love song from that point of view.
Andy Grammer
Love
People
Song
Strong
Girl
Relationships
Staying
Pretty
Pretty Girls
Point
Point Of View
Write
True
Over
Still
Doing
Lot
Wanted
Place
Loving
View
Standing
Actually
Thing
Honest
I tend to be an all-in-type of guy, so I get in a zone to write, and then that's all I do. I'll spend eight hours doing nothing but chasing that one song. That's what works for me.
Andy Grammer
Me
Song
Chasing
Nothing
Spend
Guy
Tend
Write
Hours
Doing
Get
Eight
Then
Works
Zone
But typically for a project like the Mac, the size we had was pretty good. And it has different stages. The team grows as you have to write manuals and do testing... though the Mac had no formal testing.
Andy Hertzfeld
Good
You
Project
Mac
Though
Pretty
Pretty Good
Write
Had
Like
Testing
Different
Size
Formal
Stages
Team
Different Stages
Grows
I hope people listen to the music. Don't write it off because there is a Christian doing it and it's been labeled that way, because if I'm honest with you, Christian rap for the most part has been corny.
Andy Mineo
Hope
Music
You
People
Christian
Corny
Way
Rap
Has-Been
Write
Part
Most
Because
Doing
Been
Off
Labeled
Listen
Honest
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