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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
Anthony Burgess
Art
Become
Write
Renunciation
Disinterested
Certain
I went abroad to Malaya and came back and tended naturally to gravitate towards the south, I suppose, near London where things seemed to be going on; but I'm still a Lancashire man, and what I want to write someday is a novel about Manchester. Very much a regional novel.
Anthony Burgess
Man
Back
London
Someday
About
Seemed
Abroad
Write
Towards
Suppose
Still
Came
South
Very
Going
Manchester
Where
Want
Regional
Much
Naturally
Novel
Near
Gravitate
Things
When I first began to write fiction, I didn't think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a serious writer. I was surprised when the first novel I wrote was regarded as a funny novel.
Anthony Burgess
Funny
Thought
First
Think
Write
Writer
Wrote
Comic
Surprised
Began
Fiction
Regarded
Novel
Serious
I think some people think that writers read and read and read, get the information, and then write. That's not how it works. Often, you write yourself into a dark place where you don't know what you need to know, so you go get the information.
Anthony Doerr
You
Yourself
People
Dark
Some People
Think
Dark Place
Some
Write
Writers
Know
Read
How
Go
Get
Often
Where
Information
Place
Then
Works
Need
But then of course you reach a point where you have to say, I've got to figure out how this book's going to end. Otherwise, you're going to write yourself into so many dead-ends.
Anthony Doerr
You
Yourself
Book
Otherwise
Say
Out
Point
Write
Reach
Course
Got
How
End
Going
Where
Then
Figure
Many
Supposedly, some writers work in rowdy coffee shops or compose whole novels to Megadeth, but when I write, I wear a pair of chainsaw operator's earmuffs.
Anthony Doerr
Work
Coffee
Wear
Compose
Some
Write
Writers
Supposedly
Operator
Shops
Whole
Chainsaw
Pair
Novels
Coffee Shops
Without always meaning to, I write really long short stories, 60-pagers, 90-pagers, pieces of fiction that are too long for all but the bravest magazines to print, and too short for all but the bravest book publishers to publish.
Anthony Doerr
Book
Long
Publish
Too
Magazines
Write
Pieces
Print
Without
Always
Short
Bravest
Fiction
Stories
Short Stories
Meaning
Really
Publishers
Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons.
Anthony Holden
Me
Change
People
Before
Think
Dramatic
Dramatic Change
Possibly
Would
Write
Never
Taken
Wrong
Merely
Wrong Reasons
Like
Printed
Opinion
Been
Place
Public
Public Opinion
Reasons
Things
I always had a knack for improvisation. I can write down the notes I play, but never really had a proper academic musical background. I suppose I'm blessed and cursed by the fact I have that freedom.
Anthony Hopkins
Freedom
Blessed
Down
Musical
Background
Proper
Fact
Write
Knack
Never
Had
Suppose
Academic
Always
Improvisation
Cursed
Notes
Really
Play
I'm not very good at creating worlds. I prefer to write about the world as it is.
Anthony Horowitz
Good
World
Worlds
About
Write
Very
Prefer
Creating
I fear dying in the middle of a book. It would be so annoying to write 80,000 words and not get to the end. I'm phobic about it. So when I'm writing a book I leave messages all over the house for people to know how the story ends, and then someone can finish it for me.
Anthony Horowitz
Me
Book
People
Writing
Words
Fear
Would
Would-Be
About
Someone
Finish
Write
Over
Know
Annoying
House
Messages
How
Leave
End
Get
Middle
Ends
Dying
Story
Then
I start work at 7 A.M. and write all day, seven days a week. If I don't write, I can't sleep.
Anthony Horowitz
Work
Day
Seven
All Day
Week
Write
Days
Start
Sleep
On Twitter, when someone would die, I would write a joke. Or if there's a tragedy, I would write a joke and tweet it. That was my thing, and then at a certain point, people started demanding it.
Anthony Jeselnik
People
Joke
Demanding
Twitter
Would
Someone
Point
Write
Tragedy
Die
Then
Certain
Certain Point
Tweet
Thing
Started
If the case is close, 5-4, and let's say you are on the side that prevailed with the majority, there are not a lot of high-fives and back slaps. There is a moment of quiet, a moment of respect, maybe even sometimes awe in the process. We realize that one of us is going to have to write out a decision which teaches and gives reasons for what we do.
Anthony Kennedy
You
Respect
Sometimes
Decision
Side
Back
Say
Out
Case
Prevailed
Gives
Write
Majority
Lot
Close
Quiet
Going
Maybe
Process
Which
Realize
Us
Teaches
Moment
Reasons
Even
Awe
But then when he left, I realized that it was harder to write songs and feel spiritually connected to art and music as a band. When he came back I felt it again, instantaneously.
Anthony Kiedis
Music
Art
Band
Back
Spiritually
Write
Songs
He
Instantaneously
Feel
Felt
Came
Left
Again
Realized
Then
Connected
Harder
I wanted to be a writer, but at the time, I spent my days working a retail job, my nights sleeping in my childhood bedroom, and while I had written short stories here and there, I didn't know how to write good fiction anymore than I knew how to perform good brain surgery.
Anthony Marra
Time
Good
Job
Nights
Sleeping
Spent
Write
Retail
Writer
Had
Written
Knew
Perform
Days
Know
How
Bedroom
Surgery
Brain
Brain Surgery
Than
Childhood
Short
Anymore
Fiction
Wanted
Stories
Short Stories
While
Working
Here
For the years I spent working on it, 'Constellation' was the only novel I knew how to write, so maybe I still abided by the maxim? Regardless, I prefer the maxim: Write what you want to know, rather than what you already know.
Anthony Marra
You
Spent
Rather
Only
Write
Knew
Know
How
Still
Years
Than
Maxim
Maybe
Want
Regardless
Prefer
Working
Novel
I was born to a very large family, one of 7 kids. I grew up with carnivals and chaos all around me, so I can write anywhere.
Anthony McCarten
Family
Me
Chaos
Kids
All-Around
Born
Write
Around
Up
Very
Grew
Anywhere
Large
Large Family
There's a writing adage that says, 'Write yourself into a corner.' My brother and I have always loved that adage.
Anthony Russo
Yourself
Writing
Corner
Says
Brother
Write
Always
Loved
Adage
Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.
Anthony Trollope
Day
Man
Will
Three
Ought
Write
Hours
Produce
Much
If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us.
Antonia Fraser
Day
You
Cold
Write
Know
Sure
Because
Us
I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.
Antonia Fraser
Future
Good
Me
Tomorrow
Would
Mystery
Write
Idea
Came
Shore
Plans
Good Idea
The team goals are always more important than individual goals. The ultimate goal is to win the Super Bowl and to do something special. The other little goals that you guys write up, those things take care of itself in the midst of playing football.
Antonio Brown
You
Win
Goals
Care
Important
Other
Those
Super
Super Bowl
Something
Guys
More
Something Special
Individual
Write
Take
Take Care
Football
Bowl
Always
Ultimate
Ultimate Goal
Goal
Up
Itself
Than
You Guys
Little
Midst
Team
Special
Things
Playing
I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and listen.
Antonio Damasio
You
Bach
Those
Composers
Mahler
Write
Because
Doing
Beethoven
Listen
Stop
Cannot
Require
Chopin
I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time.
Antony Beevor
Time
Myself
Experience
Book
People
Reading
Enjoy
Would
Both
Write
Scholarly
Sort
Just
Enjoy Reading
When I started to write, I realised that you need a bit of both: the overall context as well as the individual's experience.
Antony Beevor
You
Experience
Bit
Both
Individual
Write
Overall
Well
Context
Realised
Started
Need
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