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With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it.
Augusten Burroughs
Day
Own
Everything
Televised
TV
Memoirs
Some
My Own
Write
Court
End
Up
Truthful
Expecting
Legally
Fully
Prepared
Challenged
Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.
Augusten Burroughs
Once
Would
Write
Knew
Happen
Decided
Published
My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.
Augusten Burroughs
Day
Every Day
Sit
Down
Every
Only
Ritual
Write
Just
I never listen to music when I write.
Augusten Burroughs
Music
Write
Never
Listen
I usually write lyrics first, and then when I get home or close to any kind of instrument, I usually make a melody for those lyrics.
Aurora
Home
First
Lyrics
Those
Melody
Kind
Write
Instrument
Make
Close
Get
Any
Then
I'm really curious about the memory of Nixon for people who grew up under Clinton. What do people remember of him? In his day, the definition of a conservative right-wing president is more like a centrist in our own time. He's also one of our funnier presidents - just a really good character to write about.
Austin Grossman
Time
Good
Day
Character
Memory
People
Conservative
Remember
Own
President
Our
Presidents
Right-Wing
Definition
Nixon
About
More
Write
He
Like
Also
Him
His
Clinton
Up
Curious
Just
Grew
Centrist
Really
Good Character
Who
Funnier
I don't understand the iPhone. I just don't get it. Don't ya'll have to write serious emails throughout the day? How can you possibly manage detailed missives on a phone with no keys?
Ava DuVernay
Day
You
Phone
Keys
Emails
Possibly
Detailed
Throughout
Write
Understand
How
iPhone
Get
Manage
Just
Serious
All the films I do, I write the scripts, I direct.
Ava DuVernay
Films
Direct
Write
Scripts
I want to make stuff. I want to make movies and direct stuff and produce stuff and write stuff.
Avan Jogia
Direct
Write
Stuff
Make
Want
Movies
Produce
Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that is how I became a writer.
Avi
Writing
Reading
Books
Kid
Week
Write
Writer
Writers
Read
Became
How
Five
Four
Writing takes a lot of patience. It usually takes me a year to write a book. One time, it took me 14 years to write a book, not that I worked on it every day.
Avi
Time
Day
Me
Patience
Every Day
Book
Writing
Year
Every
Took
One Time
Write
Takes
Years
Lot
Worked
My parents found this paper from my high school theater class where you had to write down what you wanted in a significant other. At the bottom, it said, 'No athletes, because they're arrogant.'
Ayesha Curry
You
Class
School
Parents
Arrogant
Down
Other
Paper
Significant
High
Significant Other
Athletes
High School
Write
Had
Bottom
Because
Said
Where
Wanted
Theater
Found
When I had a full-time job, I would write dialogue and sketch characters on my commute and during meetings. Now, I forsake showers and regular meals and stay at my desk for hours, taking breaks to drink tea and eat something sweet, usually cake.
Ayobami Adebayo
Cake
Job
Tea
Sweet
Meetings
Characters
Would
Stay
Eat
Something
Drink
Write
Had
Taking
Hours
Dialogue
Breaks
Meals
Sketch
Forsake
Regular
Full-Time
Commute
Full-Time Job
Showers
Now
Desk
The blessing of being able to write music and let music speak for itself is you let the melodies and let the lyrics and the groove talk to people instead of me talking to people.
Babyface
Music
Me
You
Blessing
People
Speak
Lyrics
Melodies
Able
Write
Instead
Talk
Talking
Itself
Being
Groove
I still write the same way and have the same perspective.
Babyface
Perspective
Way
Write
Still
Same
I have a really feminine voice, but I also feel quite powerful when I write. So my songs feel heavy, and that's how Banks sounds. It's a really short, powerful sound. It almost sounds masculine, and I like having that dichotomy.
Banks
Having
Voice
Write
Songs
Masculine
Almost
Feel
Powerful
Like
Also
How
Sound
Feminine
Sounds
Dichotomy
Quite
Short
Heavy
Banks
Really
I have a very feminine voice when I write, a very womanly point of view. My last name feels strong and powerful. To me, it's almost a bit masculine. I like the dichotomy of the two. Two sides perfectly represented within my name.
Banks
Me
Strong
Sides
Bit
Voice
Point
Point Of View
Write
Masculine
Almost
Perfectly
Powerful
Feels
Name
Like
Within
Feminine
Womanly
Dichotomy
Very
View
Last
Two
It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
Barbara Kingsolver
You
Courage
Political
Topics
Dread
Some
About
Write
Writer
Takes
Labeled
Politically
Controversial
Fiction
Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.
Barney Frank
Me
Attention Span
Writing
Other
Books
Slightest
Distraction
Would
Could
Write
Take
Attention
Hand
Pat
Legislate
Short
Short Attention Span
Span
Away
Tina Fey is a genius - I've seen it with my own eyes now. She's a very observant person, and I've never seen somebody write such a high volume or as quickly as she does.
Barrett Wilbert Weed
Eyes
Genius
Somebody
Seen
Own
High
My Own
Write
Never
Observant
Volume
She
Does
Very
Quickly
Person
Tina
Tina Fey
Fey
Now
When I was really young, my ambition wasn't to do science. I didn't really know that I could. It was to write a great novel.
Barry Barish
Great
Science
Ambition
Young
Could
Write
Know
Really
Novel
I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.
Barry Bonds
Press
Magazine
Record
Recorder
Could
Write
Learn
How
Tape
Tape Recorder
Newspaper
When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.
Barry Gibb
Work
You
Song
Else
Way
Out
Sung
Someone
Records
Write
Idea
How
Work Out
Should
I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.
Barry Hannah
Love
Hate
Editing
Write
Stuff
Revise
I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
Barry Hannah
Life
Work
Motorcycle
Travel
Country
Own
Live
Speed
Tool
Faulkner
Ghost
Find
My Own
Inspiring
Write
Along
Town
His
Same
I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.
Barry Levinson
Beginning
Down
Television
Television Show
Write
Writer
Never
Became
Began
Wanted
Really
Show
Actor
Eventually
Things
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