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It's a terrible poison, writing.
A. S. Byatt
Writing
Poison
Terrible
The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
A. S. Byatt
You
Writing
World
Free
Research
Ease
About
More
Makes
I have never been able to read Agatha Christie - the pleasure is purely in the puzzle, and the reader is toyed with by someone who didn't decide herself who the killer was until the end of the writing.
A. S. Byatt
Writing
Herself
Pleasure
Killer
Able
Purely
Someone
Never
Puzzle
Until
Toyed
Read
Reader
Been
End
Decide
Agatha Christie
Who
Most of the time, you're writing for radio, you're writing for a label, you're writing to stick a hit, and you end up coming out with something that isn't necessarily genuine.
AJ Michalka
Time
You
Writing
Out
Something
Most
Stick
Genuine
Coming
Label
End
Up
Hit
Radio
Necessarily
It's amazing what happens when you're confident as an artist. The writing completely changes, and you're no longer depressed about your sound or what it's going to be or if people are going to like it.
AJ Michalka
You
People
Writing
Amazing
Changes
About
Longer
Like
Sound
Artist
Going
Confident
Happens
Depressed
Your
In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
Aaron Lazar
Love
Teacher
Great
Me
Writing
School
Analysis
Mine
Critical
High
Introduced
High School
Shakespeare
Poetry
Write
How
Essays
Taught
Then
Skill
Painful
English
English Teacher
Novels
Now
'Yellow Moon' was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel - she's dead now - it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I'm home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.
Aaron Neville
Time
Home
Writing
Wife
Moon
Looking
Big
Sister
Our
Saw
Kids
Poem
Had
Cruise
Anniversary
Dead
She
Go
Yellow
Up
Just
Now
Her
Started
Chance
Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.
Aaron Sorkin
Life
Death
Writing
Nothing
Easy
Life And Death
Never
Between
Difference
Page
I've got plenty of quirks. I go to an office early in the morning. Early in the morning is really good writing time. I take anywhere between six to eight showers a day. I'm not exaggerating. I'm not a germaphobe: it's all about a fresh start.
Aaron Sorkin
Time
Good
Day
Morning
Writing
Fresh Start
Plenty
Exaggerating
About
Take
Good Writing
Between
Fresh
Got
Go
Office
Six
Eight
Anywhere
Really
Showers
Start
Early
I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
Aaron Sorkin
Writing
Like
Well, I must tell you I write the scripts very close to the bone. So I'm writing episode seven now and couldn't tell you what happens in episode eight.
Aaron Sorkin
You
Writing
Bone
Seven
Tell
Must
Write
Well
Very
Close
Eight
Happens
Scripts
Episode
Now
I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.
Aaron Sorkin
Theatre
Writing
Drama
Television
About
Perfection
Beyond
Got
Dialogue
Up
Where
Grew
Theatrical
Start
If I am writing a movie and I am stuck, I can call the studio and tell them it's delayed. You can't do that with television - you have air dates to meet.
Aaron Sorkin
You
Writing
Meet
Air
Television
Tell
Delayed
Dates
Stuck
Studio
Call
Am
Movie
Them
Everything can be going well, but if I'm not writing, I'm not happy. When I'm writing well, I'm like a different person.
Aaron Sorkin
Happy
Writing
Everything
Like
Well
Person
Going
Different
Different Person
One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things. For myself, for other people.
Aasif Mandvi
Myself
People
Writing
Other
One Thing
Always
Trying
Did
Create
Thing
Things
Career
Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in the film afterward.
Abbas Kiarostami
People
Writing
Mind
Some
About
Write
Always
Real
Real People
Afterwards
Script
Act
Who
Film
I love Maira Kalman. She's an amazing illustrator and writer. I've loved her since I was in college, but when I moved to New York and experienced the same city she was drawing and writing about, I developed a whole new appreciation. Her work made me observe everything so much deeper and more joyfully.
Abbi Jacobson
Work
Love
Me
Appreciation
Writing
Amazing
Made
College
Everything
Drawing
City
About
More
Writer
Developed
Observe
Since
New
Joyfully
She
York
Same
Moved
New York
Experienced
Loved
Much
Whole
Deeper
Her
Illustrator
I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.
Abbie Cornish
Writing
Lyrics
Everywhere
Paper
Pieces
Always
Many
Stray
I got into DJing and making beats when I was about 17. I was always fascinated by the four elements of hip-hop: you know, writing, rhyming, breakdancing and graffiti.
Abbie Cornish
You
Writing
About
Beats
Know
Always
Got
Making
Hip-Hop
Rhyming
Fascinated
Elements
Four
There are some different things I'm writing and developing, but I don't know where they'll go. They're fun stuff that I would be in and are written in my voice, for me.
Abby Elliott
Me
Writing
Would
Would-Be
Some
Voice
Written
Developing
Stuff
Know
Go
Where
Different
Fun
Fun Stuff
Different Things
Things
The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
Abdullah II of Jordan
Future
Writing
World
Own
Our
Pen
Arab
Arab World
New
Hands
I always say writing a play is like toothache: I find it incredibly painful, and it's only once the play's out that the pain is gone.
Abi Morgan
Writing
Gone
Pain
Incredibly
Toothache
Once
Say
Out
Find
Only
Like
Always
Painful
Play
Good writing is often about trying to investigate something you feel is missing and trying to put it back.
Abi Morgan
Good
You
Writing
Back
About
Something
Investigate
Put
Good Writing
Feel
Missing
Trying
Often
'Splendour' broke through to new territory for me. It exposed my commitment to writing for women: my desire to recognise that they can be as aggressive, violent, mercurial, and complex as men.
Abi Morgan
Me
Women
Commitment
Writing
Men
Aggressive
Complex
Recognise
Broke
Through
Splendour
New
Territory
New Territory
Exposed
Desire
Violent
Plays are painful. But the very act of writing is a basic freedom denied some women. Some would call it a privilege. So what's a little pain?
Abi Morgan
Freedom
Women
Writing
Pain
Would
Some
Call
Denied
Very
Privilege
Little
Act
Painful
Basic
Plays
I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.
Abraham Pais
Morning
Writing
Word
Every
Dissertation
Spent
Point
Could
Write
Until
Another
Bed
Came
Up
Eight
Again
Next
Next Morning
Even
Letter
Four
Every Night
Night
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