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I only wrote two fan letters in my life. One was to Bette Davis. And one was to Ron Palillo, who played Horshack on 'Welcome Back, Kotter.' And Ron did not write me back, but Bette Davis did.
Ryan Murphy
Life
Me
Welcome
My Life
Back
Bette
Only
Bette Davis
Write
Davis
Wrote
Did
Fan
Ron
Who
Letters
Played
Two
I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left.
Stephen Hawking
Property
Privacy
Become
Would
Write
Because
Left
Autobiography
Want
Public
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.
Stephen King
You
Others
Way
Must
Above
Write
Writer
Read
Around
Lot
Want
Shortcut
Aware
Things
Two
And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
T. S. Eliot
Silence
Own
Every
Vain
Too
Books
Distracted
Seeking
Write
Emptiness
Dodging
His
Being
After
Elevation
When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
You
Worth
Think
Project
Worth It
Inside
About
Write
No-One
Reads
Really
Even
Reception
I've been very lucky to have been able to act, write and direct and not have to choose just the one thing.
Terry Jones
One Thing
Able
Direct
Write
Been
Very
Just
The One Thing
Act
Choose
Lucky
Thing
Rather than writing about international events, I write about individual lives. There is elation and sadness, death and birth, love and jealousy, co-operation and betrayal. All the great emotional transactions that happen wherever people come together.
Tom Drury
Love
Death
Jealousy
Great
Together
People
Writing
Events
Sadness
Birth
About
Betrayal
Rather
Individual
Write
Emotional
Come
Than
Transactions
Happen
Wherever
Elation
Co-Operation
International
Lives
You almost have to create situations in order to write about them, so I live in a constant state of self-imposed poverty. I don't want to live any other way.
Tom Waits
You
Poverty
Live
Other
State
Way
Constant
About
Write
Almost
Any
Situations
Any Other Way
Order
Want
Them
Create
When I was taken to the concentration camp of Auschwitz, a manuscript of mine ready for publication was confiscated. Certainly, my deep desire to write this manuscript anew helped me to survive the rigors of the camps I was in.
Viktor E. Frankl
Me
Mine
Anew
Write
Taken
Concentration
Ready
Auschwitz
Camp
Camps
Survive
To Survive
Certainly
Helped
Manuscript
Deep
Deep Desire
Publication
Desire
To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
Willa Cather
Best
Character
Creative
Everything
Define
Range
Lies
About
Only
Write
Writer
Talent
Well
Equally
Within
Limitations
His
Reporter
Artist
Note
View
Deepest
Presented
Sympathies
It's fun for me to try to write concise, compact things. It's a very good exercise for me. And I think it's important to try to do different things - change what I write about, and also the way I write. Otherwise, I'd just be repeating myself, which wouldn't be good for me or fair to my readers.
William T. Vollmann
Myself
Good
Me
Change
Try
Important
Just Be
Think
Otherwise
Way
About
Write
Fair
Also
Readers
Exercise
Concise
Repeating
Very
Just
Different
Which
Compact
Fun
Different Things
Good Exercise
Things
A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.
Bill Gates
Day
You
People
Closed
Sit
Assume
Software
All Day
Solitary
Purely
Write
Lot
Lots
Office
Where
Door
Creating
Code
Activity
Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're heartbroken, but tomorrow you'll be in love again.
Taylor Swift
Love
Today
You
Remember
Tomorrow
Feelings
Important
Down
Write
Because
Heartbroken
Again
Your
Capture
A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.
Gertrude Stein
Eyes
Ears
Write
Writer
His
Should
Paint
Painter
Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Love
Time
Day
You
Writing
Find
Something
Write
Hours
Lot
Times
Midnight
Start
Starting
Two
I am bipolar, and I am proud. And that is why I wanted to write a book. To shine a light on mental illness, to be vulnerable about the days I let it take control and paid dearly for it, and to tell anyone fighting a similar battle: You are not alone. You are not broken.
AJ Lee
Alone
Broken
You
Book
Battle
Light
Shine
Control
Fighting
Bipolar
Tell
About
Mental
Similar
Mental Illness
Write
Take
Days
Vulnerable
Proud
Am
Dearly
Wanted
Anyone
Paid
Illness
Why
When I create a TV show, it's so that I can write it. I'm not an empire builder; my writing staff is usually a combination of two kinds of people - experts in the world the show is set in, and young writers who will not be unhappy if they're not writing scripts.
Aaron Sorkin
People
Writing
World
Unhappy
Will
Young
TV
TV Show
Kinds
Write
Writers
Combination
Empire
Builder
Staff
Experts
Scripts
Young Writers
Create
Show
Who
Two
Set
Either I need an assignment with a strict deadline - like something for a movie or a TV show or whatever - or else I need to create a made-up deadline for myself for my own records. Otherwise, I don't write anything.
Adam Schlesinger
Myself
Strict
Whatever
Own
Else
Otherwise
TV
TV Show
Something
My Own
Records
Write
Like
Deadline
Movie
Anything
Either
Create
Show
Assignment
Need
You write a hit the same way you write a flop.
Alan Jay Lerner
You
Way
Write
Hit
Same
Flop
Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.
Albert Camus
Those
Write
Clearly
Readers
Who
The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.
Alice Munro
Life
Home
You
Parents
Half
Gone
Nursing
Nursing Home
Latter
Visit
About
Write
Come
Material
Still
Personal
Going
Children
Want
Them
Your
Deep
Here
Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.
Alvin Toffler
Enough
Correction
Write
Editor
Error
Provoked
Anyone
Doubtless
Letter
Deserves
I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.
Amy Winehouse
Song
Better
Past
About
Write
Songs
Feel
Stuff
Get
Personally
Then
Really
Most of my teachers wanted to send me to the principal's office. But my fourth-grade teacher once put her arms around me and said, 'You sure write well.' And I've had good penmanship until this day. She was the only one who ever said anything nice to me. That's the kind of motivation that students need.
Andrew Young
Teacher
Good
Day
Me
You
Nice
Once
Kind
Only
Write
Students
Had
Put
Most
Until
Principal
She
Well
Arms
Sure
Around
Said
Motivation
Office
Send
Wanted
Anything
Teachers
Who
Ever
Her
Need
When I write, I can shake off all my cares.
Anne Frank
Cares
Shake
Write
Off
I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write.
Anne McCaffrey
Good
Young
Energy
Back
Bad
Bad Days
Cost
Foolish
Write
Count
Takes
Days
Lot
Much
Used
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