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Really, I've worked my whole adult life at fiction, to try and write fiction.
Charles Bock
Life
Try
Write
Adult
Adult Life
Fiction
Worked
Really
Whole
When I was in grad school, I wrote one early story that was Vegas, and then I stayed away from it. I was trying to expand and do different things. I knew I would write about it, but I stayed away for as long as I could.
Charles Bock
School
Long
Would
Stayed
About
Could
Write
Vegas
Knew
Wrote
Expand
Grad
Grad School
Trying
Different
Story
Then
Different Things
Away
Things
Early
When I worked on a magazine, I learned that there are many, many writers writing that can't write at all; and they keep on writing all the cliches and bromides and 1890 plots, and poems about Spring and poems about Love, and poems they think are modern because they are done in slang or staccato style, or written with all the 'i's' small.
Charles Bukowski
Love
Writing
Style
Spring
Think
Plots
Magazine
About
Poems
Small
Write
Writers
Written
Learned
Cliches
Because
Modern
Done
Worked
Many
Keep
Slang
Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
Charles Caleb Colton
Myself
Me
Justice
Will
Nothing
Add
Say
Admit
Write
Readers
Because
Cease
Moment
Compels
Your senses are reeling all the time. Finally you find something to write and the very next day you go out and see something else which totally contradicts what you've written and every conclusion you've come to.
Charles Dance
Time
Day
You
Every
Else
Finally
Out
Find
See
Totally
Something
Something Else
Write
Written
Come
Conclusion
Reeling
Go
Very
Senses
Which
Next
Your
Some of the tactics that are used by Foxconn and other companies throughout China is, if you are late, if you violate one of the small rules, some of the punishment is that you have to copy down quotations from the chairman of Foxconn: you have to write out confessions explaining why you were late and promising never to do it again.
Charles Duhigg
You
Down
Other
Late
Rules
Punishment
Out
Promising
Some
Small
Tactics
Throughout
Write
Never
Were
Confessions
Quotations
Again
China
Explaining
Used
Companies
Chairman
Why
Violate
Copy
Someone will write a resolution that says, 'I want to exercise more,' or 'I want to lose 15 pounds' - which is great, that's a great goal to have - but every study tells us that if you pose things in abstract, goal-related terms, it's much less likely that you will accomplish it than if you structure it as an actual activity.
Charles Duhigg
Great
You
Will
Lose
Every
Says
Tells
Someone
Structure
More
Write
Pounds
Abstract
Study
Likely
Terms
Exercise
Accomplish
Goal
Than
Want
Which
Us
Much
Less
Activity
Actual
Things
Pose
Resolution
Writing doesn't come real easy to me. I couldn't write a novel in a year. It wouldn't be readable. I don't let an editor even look at it until the second year, because it would just scare them. I just have to trust that all these scraps and dead-ends will find a way.
Charles Frazier
Me
Trust
Writing
Will
Year
Way
Would
Easy
Find
Scare
Write
Come
Look
Until
Because
Editor
Real
Scraps
Just
Them
Even
Novel
Second
I do everything from home. I broadcast commentaries for CBS News Radio every day - from home, on a disk that I mail in. I write a weekly op-ed piece for the 'New York Daily News,' and any books or plays or movies that I'm crazy enough to write, I do that from home.
Charles Grodin
Day
Home
News
Daily
Crazy
Every Day
Every
Enough
Broadcast
Everything
Books
Weekly
Write
Mail
Op-Ed
New
Piece
York
Any
New York
Movies
Disk
Radio
Daily News
Plays
Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published.
Charles Keating
Nothing
Write
Attempt
Well
Being
Grand
Scribble
Ever
Published
Here
Dave and I had been song writers in Nashville, trying to get around, out hustling, trying to meet people. We randomly met Hillary out in town one night. She said she was a singer. I asked her if she would like to write some songs with Dave and me, and a week later she came over. Instantaneously we had this chemistry.
Charles Kelley
Me
People
Song
Met
Chemistry
Meet
Later
Randomly
Out
Would
One-Night
Some
Hustling
Week
Dave
Write
Writers
Had
Songs
Instantaneously
Over
Town
Like
Hillary
Singer
She
Around
Said
Nashville
Came
Been
Get
Trying
Asked
Her
Night
I think there are some songwriters who are just brilliant who can write and then I think there are some songwriters who can like me I have a problem writing chorus lyrics but I can write a song in a story like that.
Charles King
Me
Song
Writing
Problem
Brilliant
Think
Lyrics
Some
Write
Songwriters
Like
Just
Story
Then
Who
Chorus
I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the text.
Charles Krauthammer
Darkness
Seen
Typewriter
Would
Having
Write
Without
Text
Produce
Manual
Using
Whole
Thing
I write a lot about disadvantaged people, particularly vulnerable children, because I feel that that's who I was. That is familiar terrain for me. And I try to write about things that are very close to me because I want people to feel the passion that I have for the subject.
Charles M. Blow
Me
People
Passion
Try
About
Write
Disadvantaged
Feel
Particularly
Terrain
Because
Vulnerable
Subject
Lot
Very
Familiar
Close
Children
Want
Who
Things
I write in a very peculiar way. I think about a book for 25 or 30 years in a kind of inchoate way, and at one point or another, I realize the book is ready to be written. I usually have a character, a first line, and general idea of what the book is going to be about.
Charles McCarry
Character
Book
First
Think
Way
Kind
About
General
Point
Write
Written
Idea
Another
Ready
Line
Years
Very
Going
Realize
Peculiar
For me, it would be pointless to write a novel that I knew I could complete within a specific length of time. I could do that only by repeating something I had done before, and I've never wanted to do that.
Charles Palliser
Time
Me
Before
Complete
Would
Would-Be
Something
Only
Could
Write
Pointless
Never
Had
Knew
Within
Repeating
Done
Wanted
Length
Novel
Specific
I can't write. I can handle bits of simple-minded advert copy or a poster slogan, so answering questions is about all I'm good for.
Charles Saatchi
Good
Bits
Slogan
Poster
About
Write
Advert
Answering
Questions
Handle
Copy
'Thunderbolts' I was mostly attracted to because I really wanted to write Punisher and Elektra and Deadpool, who are characters I have always really enjoyed. But the funny thing is that over time, I came to really like Red Leader; he became one of my favorite guys in the book. Sometimes characters surprise you.
Charles Soule
Funny
Time
You
Book
Sometimes
Leader
Funny Thing
Favorite
Characters
Guys
Write
He
Red
Over
Like
Attracted
Mostly
Became
Because
Always
Came
Surprise
Wanted
Really
Who
Elektra
Thing
Enjoyed
I always see my songs in colors, and I'm often more inspired by movies and photographs than I am by other songs when I write my music. I'm also inspired by fashion, and I want my music to be a visual painting of what's in my mind.
Charli XCX
Music
Fashion
Mind
Painting
Other
Visual
Photographs
See
More
Inspired
Write
Colors
Songs
Also
Always
Am
Than
Often
Want
Movies
I just feel like the songs I write lend themselves to this girl-power feeling, and those are the artists that I looked up to when I was younger.
Charli XCX
Feeling
Those
Write
Songs
Feel
Like
Looked
Up
Just
Artists
Lend
Younger
Themselves
I am very spontaneous when I write; it kind of just comes out. I never think about what I'm going to write about first... it just sort of comes out like word vomit.
Charli XCX
Word
First
Think
Out
Kind
About
Write
Never
Vomit
Like
Spontaneous
Sort
Am
Very
Going
Just
Whether I'm writing for myself or someone else, I'll always write a song that I would feel comfortable singing.
Charli XCX
Myself
Song
Writing
Singing
Else
Would
Someone
Write
Feel
Comfortable
Always
Whether
I've wanted to write good pop music, beautiful pop music - not just throwaways. I've always wanted to make it sound luscious and beautiful and cinematic.
Charli XCX
Beautiful
Music
Good
Cinematic
Write
Make
Always
Sound
Just
Wanted
Pop
Pop Music
I count myself as not only just an artist, not only as a singer, but a business woman. I write my own songs; I write my own video treatments, manage other artists. I write for other artists; it's not just about getting on stage and singing a song.
Charli XCX
Myself
Business
Woman
Song
Singing
Own
Stage
Other
About
My Own
Only
Write
Count
Songs
Singer
Manage
Artist
Getting
Just
Artists
Video
Treatments
When we first started playing we did a lot of rehearsing. We used to write out everything. In fact, that's the way everybody rehearses: we play the tunes and improvise.
Charlie Haden
First
Improvise
Everybody
Everything
Way
Out
Fact
Write
Lot
Did
In Fact
Tunes
Used
Rehearsing
Play
Started
Playing
I can write a song about my hero Che Guevara and call it 'Song for Che.'
Charlie Haden
Song
Hero
About
Write
Call
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