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My dad was a jingle writer, and my mom was a jewelry designer and musician.
Reeve Carney
Mom
Jewelry
Musician
Writer
Dad
Designer
A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.
Regina Brett
You
Write
Writer
Writes
Want
That's a really good question - what is it like living with a writer? I guess it depends on the writer. You know what? They live in a fantasy world a lot of the time. My husband lives in a fantasy world.
Rene Russo
Time
Good
You
World
Husband
Live
Living
Guess
Writer
Like
Know
Question
Lot
Depends
Fantasy
Fantasy World
Really
Lives
As a professional writer of detective stories, I string along with the ballplayers. I love a ball game.
Rex Stout
Love
Game
String
Detective
Detective Stories
Writer
Along
Ball
Ball Game
Stories
Professional
Professional Writer
The thing with videogame characters is that they tend to be really undercooked, and people don't take the time to really flesh them out. They don't treat them with the respect that a writer writing characters in any other medium would treat their character.
Rhianna Pratchett
Time
Character
Respect
People
Writing
Treat
Other
Medium
Out
Characters
Would
Tend
Writer
Take
Any
Them
Really
Flesh
Thing
When I was really young, Dad wasn't that well known. I don't remember when I realised he was a writer, but I do remember him leaving his full-time job at the Central Electrical Generating Board to concentrate on books.
Rhianna Pratchett
Remember
Job
Young
Books
Writer
Generating
He
Remember When
Concentrate
Well
Him
Well Known
Known
Leaving
His
Realised
Central
Board
Really
Electrical
Full-Time
Full-Time Job
Dad
There are things I want to say: They are very important to me, and, not being a writer, I do it through movies.
Richard Attenborough
Me
Important
Say
Through
Writer
Very
Being
Want
Movies
Things
I have no problem selling books to media franchises and we do it all the time. The author must understand that he/she is a writer for hire and has no control over copyright or over editorial changes made to the text.
Richard Curtis
Time
Problem
Made
Control
Changes
Books
Must
No Control
No Problem
Writer
Over
Understand
Editorial
Hire
Text
Selling
Author
Media
Copyright
I was busy with my family, my budding career as a TV writer, my antipathy for the Los Angeles Lakers, and my general reluctance to engage in anything that might force me to leave my comfort zone. But sometimes ideas won't let you go. For me, educating girls was like that.
Richard E. Robbins
Family
Me
You
Sometimes
Girl
Busy
TV
Angeles
General
Reluctance
Writer
Budding
Like
Ideas
Force
Comfort
Comfort Zone
Leave
Los
Educating
Los Angeles
Go
Antipathy
Anything
Lakers
Might
Engage
Zone
Career
I believe in the verb, not the noun - I am not a writer, but someone compelled to write.
Richard Flanagan
Believe
Someone
Write
Writer
Verb
Am
Noun
Compelled
A writer should never mark the page with their own tears.
Richard Flanagan
Tears
Own
Mark
Writer
Never
Should
Page
I decided early on that I wanted to participate in the greater American experience, rather than the parochial one in Mississippi. But I have an urge as a writer to meld the Southern experience into the larger American one.
Richard Ford
Experience
Rather
Writer
Parochial
Participate
Mississippi
Greater
Southern
Than
American
American Experience
Wanted
Decided
Urge
Larger
Early
For a writer, children make life needlessly hard. I've muddled through a lot of things, but I have not muddled through my writing life. I work absolutely flat out, giving it my all.
Richard Ford
Life
Work
Writing
Giving
Out
Through
Absolutely
Writer
Make
Lot
Children
Flat
Flat Out
Muddled
Hard
Things
If I could have married my wife and been a sports writer for the past 30 years, I wouldn't be sitting here - but I don't think I'd be sitting someplace where I was sorry to be sitting.
Richard Ford
Sports
Wife
Sorry
Past
Think
Married
Someplace
Could
Writer
Been
Years
Sitting
Where
If I Could
Here
Maybe I'm a serial regional writer. First here, then there, across the map.
Richard Ford
First
Writer
Maybe
Regional
Then
Across
Serial
Map
Here
I think I'm a writer, and it's my job. People in other professions are expected to do their jobs all the time. Why shouldn't I?
Richard Greenberg
Time
People
Job
Think
Other
Jobs
Writer
Expected
Professions
Why
Certainly a decade and a half out in the real world, bashing my head against things, probably made me into a more textured writer. It gives you something to write about.
Richard K. Morgan
Me
You
World
Made
Half
Out
About
Something
More
Gives
Write
Writer
Head
Real
Decade
The Real World
Real World
Against
Certainly
Things
If I can make a living as a writer, I can do anything.
Richard LaGravenese
Living
Writer
Make
Anything
TV is where a writer can write his novel.
Richard LaGravenese
TV
Write
Writer
His
Where
Novel
I don't want to be a writer where all the characters sound the same. There's a facility in that kind of writing.
Richard LaGravenese
Writing
Characters
Kind
Facility
Writer
Sound
Same
Where
Want
Connie Heermann is a Freedom Writer teacher. I believe she represents the best of what dedicated teachers can be because she chose to serve her students, not her school board.
Richard LaGravenese
Teacher
Best
Freedom
School
Believe
Writer
Students
School Board
She
Because
Represents
Board
Teachers
Dedicated
Chose
Serve
Her
A friend of mine from college is married to Neil Levy, who started on 'Saturday Night Live' in the early days and is a really great guy and funny writer.
Richard LaGravenese
Funny
Great
College
Live
Mine
Neil
Married
Great Guy
Guy
Writer
Days
Friend
Really
Who
Saturday
Saturday Night
Saturday Night Live
Early
Started
Night
Early Days
It's a great luxury to have the writer with you on a new play because you can write and re-write, just trying to get the arc of the story, of their relationship right.
Richard McCabe
Great
Relationship
You
Luxury
Arc
Write
Writer
New
Because
Get
Trying
Just
Story
Play
Right
I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.
Richard Powers
Time
Great
Pleasures
Out
Writer
Like
Occupation
Am
Doing
Rewards
Who
Each
Each Time
Reinvent
Although every writer dreams of getting it right on the first pass, very few succeed.
Richard Rhodes
Dreams
First
Few
Every
Writer
Although
Pass
Very
Getting
Succeed
Right
I don't believe that a writer does something wonderful spontaneously. I believe it's the result of years of living, of study, reading, his very personality and temperament. At one particular moment, all these come together and the artist 'expresses' himself.
Richard Rodgers
Together
Wonderful
Personality
Result
Reading
Believe
Living
Temperament
Something
Writer
Study
Particular
Come
Spontaneously
Himself
Does
His
Years
Very
Artist
Moment
Expresses
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