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If I start playing by the rules, I will inhibit myself of the possibilities that lie beyond. I don't like to be framed or given borders to operate in or curtail my thought process and as a writer it's not only my choice but also my need to go beyond the given framework.
Kanika Dhillon
Myself
Lie
Will
Thought
Framed
Framework
Rules
Thought Process
Possibilities
Borders
Given
Only
Writer
Like
Beyond
Also
Operate
Go
Curtail
Process
Choice
Inhibit
Start
Playing
Need
Cobain the writer is funny and self-aware and snotty with a knack for off-the-cuff profundity. Remarking to a friend that his band will be called 'Nirvana,' he scribbles next to it the words 'Oooh eerie mystical doom.'
Karan Mahajan
Funny
Words
Will
Band
Nirvana
Mystical
Writer
Knack
He
His
Friend
Doom
Next
Profundity
I find myself really feeling like it's possible that maybe the greater contribution I'm going to be able to make through this next phase of my life might be as a writer writing wonderful parts for women, or even writing wonderful parts for myself, you know?
Karen Allen
Life
Myself
You
Women
Writing
Wonderful
My Life
Feeling
Possible
Find
Able
Through
Writer
Like
Know
Make
Greater
Parts
Contribution
Going
Maybe
Might
Really
Next
Even
Phase
At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
Karen Bender
You
People
Thought
Point
Writer
Had
Weird
New
Accepted
Been
Years
Off
Yorker
Oh
Where
New Yorker
Story
Which
Sent
Them
Really
Now
Bells
Last
I was pretty happy with how my career had gone, mainly because of the enormous freedom I've had to write what I've wanted to write. I had a very clear picture of who I was as a writer.
Karen Joy Fowler
Freedom
Happy
Picture
Gone
Enormous
Pretty
Write
Writer
Had
Clear
Mainly
Because
How
Very
Wanted
Who
Career
I always knew I wanted to be a writer.
Karen Kingsbury
Writer
Knew
Always
Wanted
I'm not a good crime writer. I'm not good with plots... so I have to do something else.
Karin Fossum
Good
Crime
Else
Plots
Something
Something Else
Writer
Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
Karin Slaughter
Library
Book
Thought
Somewhere
Every
Writer
Know
Read
Got
Want
Start
Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'
Karin Slaughter
Thought
Wind
Gone
Every
Write
Writer
Like
Southern
Gone With The Wind
Next
Needed
I always wanted to be a writer. In the beginning, I thought I had to rewrite 'Gone with the Wind,' but eventually, I found my way and realized that wasn't me.
Karin Slaughter
Me
Thought
Wind
Beginning
Gone
Way
Writer
Had
Always
Rewrite
Wanted
In The Beginning
Gone With The Wind
Realized
Found
Eventually
When I became a published writer, I said, 'Whatever I can do to help the libraries I want to do,' so all of my book tours since then have involved me coming to a library and talking about how important libraries are for a community.
Karin Slaughter
Me
Library
Book
Important
Whatever
Community
Libraries
About
Writer
Tours
Since
Involved
Talking
Became
Said
How
Coming
Want
Then
Help
Published
I always try to block out an hour or so a day to read. Being a writer is a job, and reading helps train my brain in the right direction.
Karin Slaughter
Day
Try
Job
Reading
Out
Direction
Writer
Hour
Read
Always
Block
Brain
Train
Being
Helps
Right
Right Direction
Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.
Karrine Steffans
Good
Great
You
Writer
Good Writer
Know
Great Writer
How
Any
Going
I love the process of filmmaking. I understood that you have to be a writer in order to be a director.
Karthi
Love
You
Director
Writer
Understood
Order
Process
Filmmaking
The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard for me, as a writer, to give a bad ending to a good character, or give a good ending to a bad character. That's probably not a very postmodern thing to say.
Kate Atkinson
Work
Good
Character
Me
Ending
Will
Everything
Say
Out
Bad
Would
Would-Be
Bad Character
Postmodern
Give
Writer
Fairy
Brain
Very
Legacy
Fiction
Story
Work Out
Hard
Good Character
Thing
If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
Kate Atkinson
You
Voice
Writer
Then
Really
Unique
As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I can't help but notice in so many stories, plays, poems that I read, the sort of breadcrumbs of fairytale techniques, so I'm very excited when I notice that.
Kate Bernheimer
Reading
Immersed
Poems
Writer
Excited
Read
Reader
Sort
Fairytale
Coming
Very
Stories
Notice
Help
Many
Techniques
Plays
I regretted the solitary nature of the writer's life - other people, normal working people, spent their days with co-workers, rode the subway home with a crowd, walked through thronged streets. I worked at home, all by myself.
Kate Christensen
Life
Myself
Home
Nature
People
Other
Spent
Solitary
Crowd
Through
Writer
Days
Normal
Rode
Walked
Subway
Worked
Co-Workers
Regretted
Working
Working People
Streets
Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.
Kate DiCamillo
Writing
No Interest
Absolutely
Writer
Had
Understand
Wanted
Interest
I was a very sickly kid and suffered from chronic pneumonia, which is why we moved to the warm southern climate. I think being ill contributed to my development as a writer. I learned early on to entertain myself by reading.
Kate DiCamillo
Myself
Reading
Think
Chronic
Sickly
Kid
Entertain
Writer
Development
Learned
Climate
Very
Southern
Moved
Being
Which
Warm
Ill
Suffered
Why
Early
I was someone who wanted to be a writer but who wasn't writing. I was someone buying books on writing. I was someone telling people that I was writer. But I was not writing.
Kate DiCamillo
People
Writing
Books
Telling
Someone
Writer
Wanted
Who
Buying
Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
Kate Forsyth
People
Old
Think
Only
Writer
Take
Adult
Tale
Sophisticated
Tales
Fairy
Fairy Tales
Audience
Children
Many
Every writer dreams of having a backyard cottage, similar to Dahl's 'writing hut.' English cottages and charming huts might seem out of reach, but a good carpenter could build a modest cottage on the cheap.
Kate Klise
Dreams
Good
Writing
Build
Every
Carpenter
Out
Backyard
Seem
Similar
Hut
Charming
Having
Cottage
Could
Writer
Cheap
Reach
Might
Modest
English
In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.
Kate Morton
Life
Time
Me
My Life
Everything
Seems
Writer
Like
Retrospect
Becoming
Led
Just
Realise
All I know is Andrew Davies is an amazing writer; I adore the scripts. I think that Jeremy Piven is outstanding.
Katherine Kelly
Amazing
Think
Andrew
Adore
Writer
Outstanding
Know
Scripts
Jeremy
I'm a writer first and a woman after.
Katherine Mansfield
Woman
First
Writer
After
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