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As far as what readers can expect with 'Maybe Someday,' I'm not the type of writer who writes to educate or inform my readers. I simply write to entertain them.
Colleen Hoover
Type
Entertain
Someday
Write
Writer
Writes
Simply
Readers
Educate
Expect
Maybe
As Far As
Inform
Them
Far
Who
My first novel was turned down by about twenty publishers over a period of two and a half years. Because my name is Irish and would not be familiar to English editors, one of them said: 'If she writes anything else, do let us know.' Slowly, very slowly, the books began to sell and be noticed.
Colm Toibin
First
Half
Down
Else
Books
Would
Slowly
About
Writes
Over
Name
Know
Period
Half Years
She
Because
Said
Editors
Years
Sell
Began
Very
Familiar
Irish
Anything
Anything Else
Them
Turned
Us
Noticed
English
Novel
Twenty
Let Us
Publishers
Two
We like the John Gruber model - he writes some long stuff that's very thoughtful and analytical, and then other stuff, he just adds a bit of commentary. I like that.
Daniel Lyons
Long
Other
Analytical
Adds
Bit
Thoughtful
John
Some
Writes
He
Stuff
Like
Commentary
Very
Model
Just
Then
Maybe the 'Million Little Pieces' of the world are so popular because no one ever writes memoirs about PTA chairwomen; what memoirists do, and often get in trouble for, is bring interesting lives to light.
Darin Strauss
World
Light
Trouble
Memoirs
About
Writes
No-One
Pieces
Because
Get
Often
Maybe
Interesting
Little
Popular
Ever
Lives
Million
Bring
As so many writers know, the experience of creating an imaginary world is closer to dreaming than it is to normal, grit-your-teeth work. It's preconscious rather than conscious. Ideas fall into your head, and the book writes you, rather than the other way around.
David Ignatius
Work
You
Experience
Book
World
Fall
Other
Way
Dreaming
Rather
Writers
Writes
Head
Ideas
Know
Around
Normal
Than
Closer
Creating
Your
Many
Conscious
Imaginary
Imaginary World
I enjoy the acting, but I didn't plan on that. It fell into my lap, and I'm having a lot of fun with it, but I'm definitely moving towards directing because I'm naturally a writer, and I think a good director edits, writes, and has acted a little bit. He's done a little bit of everything, and that's what I'm trying to do.
David Labrava
Good
Director
Enjoy
Think
Everything
Bit
Definitely
Directing
Having
Writer
Writes
He
Towards
Fell
Because
Edit
Lot
Trying
Done
Little
Moving
Little Bit
Plan
Acted
Acting
Lap
Naturally
Fun
Good Director
I'm not a writer that writes every day. I just kind of have ideas. I jot them down when I have them, and when I have enough, I just start. And for me, I start more around noon, and I'm all about feeling. Once there's a theme, I can't not write.
Dee Rees
Day
Me
Every Day
Feeling
Down
Every
Enough
Once
Kind
About
More
Write
Writer
Writes
Jot
Ideas
Around
Noon
Just
Just Kind
Them
Theme
Start
Whether I'm writing the script, or someone else writes the initial draft, I'm always an actor's director first. I always try to listen to them a lot and try to put their voices into their character.
Dito Montiel
Character
Director
Writing
Try
First
Else
Someone
Voices
Writes
Put
Always
Lot
Listen
Whether
Script
Them
Initial
Actor
Draft
History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
E. L. Doctorow
History
Generation
People
Myth
Every
Think
Anew
Writes
Most
End
End Product
Product
Why
Present
When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script.
Edward Norton
Down
Way
Out
Blank
Blank Page
Writes
Looks
Call
Script
Then
Page
Who
For me, Paul Simon has always been an incredible songwriter, as he writes very complicated songs that sound very simple, and he makes it look so easy when it's not.
Eliot Sumner
Me
Complicated
Simple
Incredible
Easy
Simon
Writes
Songs
Songwriter
He
Look
Makes
Always
Sound
Been
Very
Paul
Paul Simon
Smokey Robinson writes the heartfelt songs, whereas it was my job to write the songs about weakness and failure in love.
Elvis Costello
Love
Failure
Job
Weakness
About
Write
Writes
Songs
Robinson
Smokey
Heartfelt
Whereas
The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.
Eugenio Montale
Will
Poet
Writes
Never
He
Know
Does
Often
Really
Whom
In 'A Poetics of Optics,' Equi writes that 'all images bank on alchemy.' This idea captures her fundamental sense of poetry as turning common material into something rare and valuable.
Floyd Skloot
Valuable
Rare
Sense
Something
Poetry
Writes
Idea
Material
Optics
Bank
Common
Turning
Captures
Fundamental
Her
Images
Alchemy
Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.
Frederick Jackson Turner
Time
History
Age
Past
Own
Tries
Anew
Writes
Conception
Reference
Conditions
The History Of
Form
Each
A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
George Bernard Shaw
Time
Veteran
Journalist
Before
Think
Writes
Never
Had
He
Twice
For anybody who writes, very often, when you finish an album, you are so done with it. You've been listening in minutia, in super-focus.
Gerry Beckley
You
Listening
Finish
Writes
Been
Very
Done
Often
Anybody
Who
Album
Well, playing a guy who writes songs and busks on Grafton Street in Dublin and falls in love with Marketa Irglova wasn't very difficult for me. There was very little acting going on.
Glen Hansard
Love
Me
Difficult
Guy
Writes
Songs
Well
Dublin
Falls
Very
Going
Little
Acting
Who
Street
Playing
Sometimes God writes straightforward in twisted lines.
Gloria Trevi
God
Sometimes
Writes
Lines
Straightforward
Twisted
A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Myself
Wise
Money
Publish
Once
Write
Writer
Writes
Himself
Reader
Said
Very
Author
Just
Then
The president is the one person who potentially could be the unifying figure in the country. And if the president or a presidential candidate basically writes off 40 states, then how in the world do the people in those 40 states feel like they have a stake in that person or that election?
H. W. Brands
People
World
Election
Country
President
Presidential
States
Those
Potentially
Could
Writes
Feel
Like
How
Off
Person
Candidate
Stake
Then
Unifying
Figure
Who
Basically
I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.
Harold Ross
Day
Words
Few
Other
Back
Paper
Ring
Phrases
Writes
He
Piece
Wrote
Said
How
His
Short
Stories
Short Stories
Spaces
Then
Asked
Separated
Filled
Widely
I love 'Girls.' The writing is so clever. I think Lena Dunham is a genius. I can't believe she writes it, directs it and stars in it. It's really exciting that a young woman has been able to achieve all of that.
Helen George
Love
Woman
Writing
Genius
Achieve
Girl
Clever
Young
Believe
Stars
Think
Has-Been
Able
Writes
Exciting
She
Been
Lena Dunham
Young Woman
Really
Jack Thorne writes so well for messed-up teenage girls.
Holliday Grainger
Girl
Teenage
Teenage Girls
Writes
Well
Jack
I really love being a weirdo who writes a lot of different things for a lot of different ages. I have been considering doing a guide on my website so that a reader who liked one of my books could find the other books that he or she might like, because I know some of the books are really different from the rest.
Holly Black
Website
Love
Rest
Other
Books
Considering
Guide
Find
Some
Could
Writes
He
He Or She
Weirdo
Like
Know
Liked
She
Reader
Because
Doing
Been
Lot
Being
Different
Different Ages
Might
Ages
Really
Who
Different Things
Things
I carry my iPod everywhere. My favorite group is the John Butler Trio, an Australian jam band. The lead singer and guitarist writes amazing lyrics.
Hope Solo
Amazing
Guitarist
Band
Group
Lyrics
Everywhere
Favorite
Carry
John
Trio
Writes
Lead
Lead Singer
Singer
iPod
Australian
Jam
Butler
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