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It's such a stupid thing to sign a band and then demand a hit right away to instantly recoup the money. The point is, you have to do it by building your own following, and that is not necessarily done by writing instant hits. Al Jourgensen

You Writing Money Stupid Building Band Own Sign Following Point Instant Instantly Demand Stupid Thing Hit Hits Done Then Your Away Right Thing Necessarily Right Away

I started writing when I was about thirteen. Al Purdy

Writing About Started Thirteen

So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit. Al Yankovic

Work Funny You Writing Own Rules Parody Merit Know Material Gotta Source Source Material Regardless Whether Why

I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel. Alain de Botton

Love Writing Rather Uncomfortable Than Personal Essay Fiction Novel

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane. Alain de Botton

Writing Out Stay Attempt Always Came Very Personal Place Sane

The greatest compliment I get about my writing is when people say, 'How did you know so much about me?' And of course, the answer is very simple: 'I just observed myself without sentimentality.' Alain de Botton

Myself Me You People Writing Simple Say Compliment People Say About Observed Know Course Without Answer Greatest How Very Get Did Just Much Sentimentality

Achingly funny as it was, Larry Gelbart's writing gave off sparks that turned a hard light on the way we are. Alan Alda

Funny Writing Light Gave Way Off Turned Sparks Hard Larry

What I always wanted to get seen as was as a good actor, when it was the acting I was doing. When I'm writing, I want to try to be seen as a good writer. Not as somebody with a particular idea to sell, or something like that. Alan Alda

I've been writing full-time since 1978. Alan Dean Foster

Writing Since Been Full-Time

It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that's 160 days. Alan Furst

Work Day Me Book Writing Three Research Nine Nine Months Months Takes Days Gonna Produce Pages Start Two

I'm pretty slow at writing papers. Alan Guth

Writing Slow Papers Pretty

I really was a fan of his and always have been - his writing especially, you know? I think people a lot of times overlook that part, because he kind of got into that party character so heavy. Alan Jackson

It's writing songs within the structure of telling a story, so it becomes a platform for diverse songwriting, for a writing process that's broader than just figuring out a song. You're also dealing with always pushing the story forward, with casting the voices, with the orchestration, with the arrangements. Alan Menken

You Song Writing Broader Out Telling Diverse Structure Casting Voices Writing Process Songs Pushing Songwriting Also Within Becomes Dealing Always Arrangements Than Just Orchestration Process Story Forward Figuring Platform

If you're writing for yourself as an artist, you are always pulling on your own experiences. Alan Menken

You Yourself Writing Own Always Artist Experiences Your Pulling

I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of the problems is, when you start to do that, in effect you're going to have to step off the edge of science and rationality. Alan Moore

You Creative Science Writing Problems Creative Process Edge Living One Of The Problems Rationality Step Advantage Understand How Effect Off Going Dependent Process Really Works Start

I suppose when I was writing 'V for Vendetta' I would in my secret heart of hearts have thought: 'Wouldn't it be great if these ideas actually made an impact?' So when you start to see that idle fantasy intrude on the regular world... It's peculiar. Alan Moore

On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable. Alan Moore

Writing Try Occasion Did Just Where Rewriting Screenplay Found

People ask, 'What are the scientific questions you're going to answer?' New Horizons doesn't have any of those; it's purely about raw exploration... We're not 'rewriting the textbook' - we're writing the textbook from scratch. Alan Stern

You People Writing Those Horizons Purely About Raw New Scientific Answer Textbook Questions Any Going Scratch Rewriting Ask Exploration

One of the biggest challenges of writing for middle-grade or even young-adult readers is that I don't want to have too much violence in it - which really limits what you can do. It's important that they're not just bloodbaths or glorifying violence. I always try to show that a person who dies leaves a hole. There's grief in my books. Alane Ferguson

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