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I'm most happy when I am writing at night, because I need space and time to write.
Cecelia Ahern
Time
Happy
Writing
Space
Write
Most
Because
Am
Space And Time
Night
Need
Face it, you have to be sort of an egomaniac to write something down and think that anyone is going to want to read it.
Cecily von Ziegesar
You
Face
Down
Think
Something
Write
Read
Sort
Egomaniac
Going
Want
Anyone
Even now, I change my style and clothes from one day to the next, but during high school I blended in. I think a lot of people are that way. I guess that's why I can write about an array of characters.
Cecily von Ziegesar
Day
Change
People
School
Style
Clothes
Think
Guess
Way
One Day
Characters
High
High School
About
Write
Blended
Array
Lot
Next
Even
Even Now
Now
Why
It's hard to write a song about reality because reality doesn't rhyme.
CeeLo Green
Reality
Song
About
Write
Because
Rhyme
Hard
I was freelance proof-reading, freelance editing, creating illustrated slides for doctors' presentations - just so I'd have enough money to take the time to write. That's how I got by.
Celeste Ng
Time
Editing
Money
Freelance
Doctors
Enough
Enough Money
Slides
Write
Take
Got
How
Just
Creating
Illustrated
I wanted to write a book about people who have the best intentions and think - really, truly think - that they're doing the right thing. And then they realize that when those ideals come knocking at their windowsill, a lot of times they will suddenly disavow those ideals.
Celeste Ng
Best
Book
People
Doing The Right Thing
Will
Think
Right Thing
Those
Best Intentions
About
Write
Knocking
Come
Ideals
Doing
Truly
Lot
Times
Intentions
Wanted
The Right Thing
Realize
Then
Really
Who
Suddenly
Right
Thing
I don't think of myself as a mystery or thriller writer, honestly. I am in awe of mystery writers and don't think I have what it takes to write such a book.
Celeste Ng
Myself
Book
Think
Honestly
Thriller
Mystery
Write
Writer
Writers
Takes
Am
Awe
Even if Pearl S. Buck hadn't spent most of her life in China, she'd have every right to write about it.
Celeste Ng
Life
Every
Spent
About
Write
Buck
Most
She
China
Even
Her
Right
Pearl
As soon as I could write, I was writing stories.
Celeste Ng
Writing
Could
Write
Soon
Stories
I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn't tell anyone.
Celia Johnson
Frank
Frank Sinatra
Tell
Write
Never
Had
Sinatra
Because
Affair
Autobiography
Anyone
When I write for 'n+1,' I begin by doing a lot of reading, to try to convince myself I'm not stupid. Then I scribble down a paragraph here, a paragraph there, when a notion strikes. Then I see if I can arrange those notions in a way that yields an argument.
Chad Harbach
Myself
Try
Argument
Stupid
Reading
Down
Strikes
Way
Those
Paragraph
See
Write
Arrange
Doing
Lot
Begin
Yields
Scribble
Then
Convince
Notion
Notions
Here
Sometimes I write about things that never happened to me that wind up happening to me. When you put things out in the universe, sometimes they wind up coming true.
Chad Kroeger
Me
You
Sometimes
Wind
Universe
Out
About
Write
Never
Put
True
Coming
Up
Happened
Happening
Things
I'm an artist. Artists don't need permission to work. Regardless of whether I'm acting or not, I write. I write when I'm tired in fact, because I believe your most pure thoughts surface.
Chadwick Boseman
Work
Tired
Thoughts
Pure
Believe
Fact
Write
Most
Because
Surface
Permission
Artist
Artists
In Fact
Regardless
Whether
Acting
Your
Need
I love all types of music. Jazz, classical, blues, rock, hip-hop. I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music inspires me to write. It's either music playing or completely silent. Sometimes distant sound fuels you. In New York there's always a buzzing beneath you.
Chadwick Boseman
Love
Music
Me
You
Sometimes
Jazz
Beneath
Types
Distant
Silent
Classical
Inspires
Write
New
Like
Rock
Always
Sound
Hip-Hop
York
Artist
Often
New York
Blues
Either
Scripts
Fuels
Playing
Buzzing
What I have in advance are people I want to write about and a problem or problems that I see those people encountering and that I want to explore - it all proceeds sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, and scene by scene.
Chaim Potok
People
Problem
Problems
Those
Paragraph
See
About
Scene
Write
Advance
Want
Proceeds
Sentence
Explore
A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it's not as satisfying in the end.
Chaim Potok
Work
Difficult
Pretty
About
Write
Writer
Shape
Him
Non-Fiction
Refining
End
Goes
Front
Fiction
Fiction Writer
In The End
Much
Figure
Satisfying
Her
When I write, I work off of a theme, an emotion, a narrative - thinking of it and then expounding on it.
Chance The Rapper
Work
Thinking
Emotion
Write
Narrative
Off
Theme
Then
In a larger sense, we all write our own destiny.
Chanda Kochhar
Own
Sense
Our
Destiny
Write
Larger
I write all my own raps myself, 100 percent. And it feels good to be able to say that.
Chanel West Coast
Myself
Good
Own
Say
Able
Percent
My Own
Write
Feels
I don't like to use writing assignments, exercises. I think too often people get comfortable writing in that vein, but you can't go on to write a novel comprised of short writing exercises.
Chang-Rae Lee
You
People
Writing
Think
Too
Write
Vein
Like
Comfortable
Exercises
Go
Get
Often
Short
Use
Novel
Assignments
It's hard to write a war story without thinking about the 'Iliad.' Because the 'Iliad' knows everything about war.
Chang-Rae Lee
War
Thinking
Everything
About
Write
Knows
Because
Without
Story
Hard
Iliad
I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to make for a novelist.
Chang-Rae Lee
War
Needs
Made
Sense
Kind
About
Write
Entry
Had
Make
Korean
Korean War
Wanted
Novelist
I write on a computer. On breaks, I'll make myself green tea. I don't want something too caffeinated. I guess I don't believe in chemical enhancement of my writing. Just slight, but nothing crazy.
Chang-Rae Lee
Myself
Crazy
Writing
Nothing
Tea
Believe
Too
Guess
Slight
Something
Computer
Write
Make
Chemical
Green
Just
Want
Breaks
Enhancement
When I was 21, I got into a motorcycle accident while traveling in Europe and I had to lie around a lot in the aftermath, which was really the first time in my life that I became really focused and inspired to write.
Chantal Kreviazuk
Life
Time
Motorcycle
Lie
My Life
First
Accident
Focused
Inspired
Write
Had
Became
Around
First Time
Got
Lot
Aftermath
Which
While
Really
Europe
Traveling
If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.
Charlaine Harris
You
Somebody
Else
Please
Pleases
Write
Gonna
No, I won't ever write another 'Lily Bard.' I said everything I had to say about Lily.
Charlaine Harris
Everything
Say
About
Write
Had
Lily
Another
Said
Ever
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