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When I write, I just let my characters go, the way I let life go.
Carolyn Chute
Life
Way
Characters
Write
Go
Just
When I'm not writing, I do a lot of research reading on the shape of civilization. Fiction can be a lot of different things... but I feel like it's my job to write about the way things are.
Carolyn Chute
Writing
Job
Reading
Research
Way
About
Civilization
Write
Shape
Feel
Like
Lot
Different
Fiction
Different Things
Things
Because school was so terrible was probably why I was driven to write.
Carolyn Chute
School
Write
Driven
Terrible
Because
Why
It was writing about music for NPR - connecting with music fans and experiencing a sense of community - that made me want to write songs again. I began to feel I was in my head too much about music, too analytical.
Carrie Brownstein
Music
Me
Writing
Fans
Too Much
Made
Sense
Community
Too
Music Fans
Analytical
About
Write
Songs
Head
Feel
Began
Want
Experiencing
Again
Much
Connecting
I always kept a diary - not a diary like, 'Dear Diary, we got up at 5 A.M., and I wore the weird hair again and that white dress! Hi-yeee!' I'd just write.
Carrie Fisher
Hair
White
Dress
Write
Weird
Like
Always
Got
Dear
Diary
Up
Just
Again
Wore
Kept
I've learned this, that haters wanna hate. You could sing a song perfectly, you could write the songs perfectly, and some people are absolutely going to hate you.
Carrie Underwood
You
Hate
People
Song
Haters
Some People
Some
Could
Absolutely
Write
Songs
Perfectly
Sing
Learned
Going
Wanna
I didn't plan to write YA - I had a story that simply wasn't working as a straight-up fantasy novel.
Carrie Vaughn
Write
Had
Simply
Ya
Story
Fantasy
Plan
Working
Novel
I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too.
Carter Burwell
Music
Myself
Director
Too
Please
Hopefully
Write
Enjoying
I'm never more miserable than when I write, and never more happy than having finished and having it sitting in front of me.
Cary Fukunaga
Me
Happy
Finished
Miserable
Having
More
Write
Never
Than
Sitting
Front
Sometimes I feel like I finish a song, and there's another song that I have to write in response to that song. Each is like its own separate feeling, its own separate universe.
Cass McCombs
Song
Sometimes
Feeling
Own
Universe
Response
Finish
Write
Feel
Like
Another
Separate
Each
I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words. I don't think I'm even a musician. I don't play a lot of instruments, not really a soloist or anything.
Cass McCombs
Myself
Words
Thought
Think
Musician
Folk
About
Somewhat
Write
Instruments
Always
Lot
Just
Anything
Really
Even
Play
I write for myself, and I write for my friends and people who I have a connection with. I try to give some dignity to peoples' lifestyles that tend to be ignored.
Cass McCombs
Myself
Dignity
People
Try
Some
Give
Tend
Write
Lifestyles
Friends
Ignored
Who
Connection
You're a reader as well as a writer, so write what you'd want to read.
Cassandra Clare
You
Write
Writer
Well
Read
Reader
Want
I believe that writer's block is a symptom. It's not a disease, it's the symptom of a disease. So what I try to do is kind of do it like 'House'; write down the symptom and write down the other symptoms. Try to work backwards to figure out what the problem is.
Cassandra Clare
Work
Problem
Try
Backwards
Down
Believe
Other
Symptom
Symptoms
Out
Kind
Write
Writer
Like
House
Block
Disease
Figure
You know that I had heard so many times people say things like, 'You could never write 'Harry Potter' and have it be about Harriett Potter because nobody would read it; people only want to read an adventure story if it's about a boy,' and I thought, 'I don't think that's true.'
Cassandra Clare
You
People
Thought
Think
Harry
Say
Harry Potter
Would
People Say
About
Only
Potter
Could
Write
Never
Had
True
Adventure
Nobody
Like
Know
Read
Because
Boy
Heard
Times
Times People
Want
Story
Many
Things
No matter how many books you've written, whenever you sit down to write a new book, you always feel the same challenge - how do you shape this story into a book that people are going to love.
Cassandra Clare
Love
You
Book
People
Matter
Challenge
Sit
Down
Books
Write
Shape
Written
Feel
New
New Book
Always
How
Same
Going
Whenever
Story
To Love
Many
Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I have to write everything down.
Cate Blanchett
Down
Everything
Write
Maybe
Old-Fashioned
With the novels, I try to write a few pages a day - it doesn't sound much, but it can be difficult if I'm not sure where the story is going.
Catherine Fisher
Day
Try
Few
Difficult
Write
Sure
Sound
Going
Where
Story
Much
Pages
Novels
I'm not a risk-taker; that's probably why I write - because when you're easily bored, but you don't like taking risks, you end up doing it all in your head.
Catherine Jinks
You
Risks
Taking Risks
Easily
Bored
Write
Head
Taking
Like
Because
Doing
End
Up
Your
Why
I've been known to write 10 pages a day for 10 days running before I take a breath. I am not a disciplined writer. I'm one of those people who laughingly call themselves inspirational writers, which basically means someone who has no control over their own creative process.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
Inspirational
Day
Creative
People
Creative Process
Before
Own
Control
Breath
Those
No Control
Running
Someone
Write
Writer
Take
Writers
Over
Days
Call
Known
Disciplined
Am
Been
Process
Which
Themselves
Means
Pages
Who
Basically
Those who write may think they know their target market. They may even feel they can shape the work to fit it. If this is true of you, you have more control over your creative process than I do. Even so, I humbly submit that you try letting your writing shape your target market instead and see what happens.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
Work
You
Creative
Writing
Try
Creative Process
Submit
Control
Think
Market
Those
See
More
Write
Shape
Instead
True
Feel
Over
Know
Fit
Target
Than
May
Happens
Process
Your
Who
Even
Letting
Humbly
Writing comedy is an exposing thing because you're putting yourself on the line with every joke you write, and although you can't second-guess an audience, if you want to be successful, you have to write stuff people like.
Catherine Tate
You
Yourself
People
Writing
Comedy
Joke
Every
Second-Guess
Write
Putting
Stuff
Like
Although
Because
Audience
Line
Want
Successful
Exposing
Thing
No matter what you write, you actually can't help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way.
Catherynne M. Valente
You
Matter
Somewhere
Way
Write
Tale
Along
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Help
Actually
I write to explore something that fascinates me, and I write the way I do because it is the only way I know how to write.
Cathy Marie Buchanan
Me
Way
Something
Only
Write
Know
Because
How
Explore
Fascinates
I write my novels longhand. I love the feeling of writing; I love to see pen on paper. It feels more creative than typing, and it's a more visual process for me - I can picture the entire scene in my head and am merely writing what I see.
Cecelia Ahern
Love
Me
Creative
Writing
Feeling
Picture
Typing
Paper
Pen
Visual
See
Entire
More
Scene
Write
Head
Merely
Feels
Longhand
Am
Than
Process
Novels
Don't force yourself to write. Some people can write a novel in a few months, whereas for others it can take over a year. I'm lucky to be one of the former - but, even so, if I'm not in the mood to write, I won't. I'll go off, do something else and come back to it when I'm ready.
Cecelia Ahern
Yourself
People
Some People
Year
Few
Others
Else
Back
Months
Mood
Some
Something
Something Else
Write
Take
Over
Come
Force
Ready
Go
Off
Whereas
Former
Lucky
Even
Novel
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