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When I start writing songs and it turns into an overly belabored intellectual process, I just throw it out.
Alanis Morissette
Writing
Out
Throw
Songs
Overly
Intellectual
Just
Process
Turns
Start
I'll be writing songs till I die. There's just no question.
Alanis Morissette
Writing
No Question
Songs
Till
Question
Die
Just
I've been really enjoying writing articles and writing music and music for movies.
Alanis Morissette
Music
Writing
Been
Articles
Movies
Really
Enjoying
I'll be writing records until I'm dead, whether people like it or not! I can't not write; if I don't, then I get really depressed. I'll keep going, I promise!
Alanis Morissette
People
Writing
Promise
Records
Write
Like
Until
Dead
Get
Going
Whether
Depressed
Then
Really
Keep
Keep Going
When you're writing stuff that's already clotted with neologisms and trying to get across fairly abstruse concepts, you're already putting a heavy burden on the reader.
Alastair Reynolds
You
Writing
Burden
Putting
Stuff
Concepts
Fairly
Reader
Get
Trying
Heavy
Heavy Burden
Across
I just start writing, and in the process, one hopefully comes up with ideas and solutions and explores all the little nooks and crannies.
Alastair Reynolds
Writing
Hopefully
Solutions
Ideas
Up
Just
Process
Little
Start
When I was writing 'House Of Suns,' there were a few writers I had in mind as role models, the main being Gene Wolfe.
Alastair Reynolds
Writing
Mind
Few
Gene
Writers
Main
Had
House
Were
Role
Role Models
Models
Being
It's not healthy to obsess over every data point, every review or reader comment. I think the first few times you see someone writing about you, you have this massive emotional response to it. But after a while, it all just fades into the background noise.
Alastair Reynolds
You
Noise
Writing
First
Healthy
Few
Every
Think
Background
Response
See
About
Someone
Data
Point
Emotional
Fades
Obsess
Over
Massive
Reader
Review
Comment
Times
Just
After
While
You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.
Albert Brooks
You
Director
Writing
Correctly
Out
Find
Deliver
Know
Comedies
Became
Anybody
Necessity
In the course of my movies, the financing and the releasing were always the tough part. Because I loved the creative; I loved the writing. I loved the making of it. Because, I guess, I never had the giant blockbuster, I never got that sort of ease for the next one.
Albert Brooks
Creative
Writing
Tough
Guess
Ease
Releasing
Giant
Financing
Never
Had
Part
Sort
Course
Because
Always
Got
Making
Blockbuster
Were
Loved
Movies
Next
The first act is writing, the second act is filming, the third act is releasing. If you have to partake in the third act, it hurts the first act of the next one. It's like a prizefight. You get punched.
Albert Brooks
You
Writing
Hurts
First
Punched
Releasing
Partake
Like
Get
Next
Act
Second
Filming
Third
In no way am I demeaning writing or any other form of art because it's popular. What I'm saying is that anything fed into the industrial machinery to comply with rules of size and length and shelf-life has a hard time surviving as art.
Alberto Manguel
Art
Saying
Time
Writing
Other
Way
Rules
Machinery
Comply
Fed
Demeaning
Industrial
Because
Am
Surviving
Any
Size
Form
Anything
Length
Hard
Popular
Hard Time
My feeling is that I don't really care about the genre or the size of the movie. I care about the quality of the writing and the quality of the characters.
Alden Ehrenreich
Quality
Writing
Care
Feeling
Characters
About
Genre
Size
Movie
Really
I've been a writer since I was 13. I've been writing scripts and having pitch meetings. So, when I do see people like Brit Marling getting things done, it lets me know that it's possible. It basically just tells me, 'Dude, get to work!' For some reason, I think that I'm not doing enough work.
Aldis Hodge
Work
Me
People
Writing
Think
Enough
Meetings
Possible
Tells
See
Some
Having
Writer
Since
Like
Know
Dude
Doing
Been
Get
Pitch
Done
Getting
Just
Scripts
Reason
Lets
Things
Basically
Somebody writing a subroutine is unbelievable boring.
Alec Berg
Writing
Somebody
Boring
Unbelievable
Writing is not an unknown territory for me.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Me
Writing
Unknown
Territory
I started off writing TV adverts. I saw those as rehearsals for a feature film.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Writing
Saw
Those
TV
Feature
Feature Film
Off
Rehearsals
Film
Started
I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter pieces in English, and one of them got published in a literary magazine and that's how it got started. After that, graduate school didn't seem very important.
Aleksandar Hemon
Writing
School
Important
Everything
Find
Magazine
Seem
Could
Pieces
Read
Got
How
Very
Graduate
Graduate School
James
Literary
After
While
Them
Then
Really
Twain
English
Hemingway
Henry
Published
Henry James
Started
A particular piece of music attaches itself to the piece I'm writing, and there is nothing else I can listen to. Every day I return to the same space to write, the music providing both the walls and the pictures on the walls.
Aleksandar Hemon
Music
Day
Every Day
Writing
Walls
Space
Nothing
Every
Else
Both
Write
Particular
Pictures
Piece
Return
Providing
Itself
Same
Listen
I actually didn't listen to the Beatles song 'Nowhere Man' when I was writing my book of the same name. What I listened to a lot was 'Abbey Road.' Its disjointedness and its readiness to confuse only to delight were inspiring to me.
Aleksandar Hemon
Me
Man
Beatles
Book
Song
Writing
Confuse
Abbey
Only
Delight
Inspiring
Road
Name
Readiness
Were
Lot
Same
Listen
Listened
Nowhere
Actually
We've always dreamt of a TV series and working in film. When we first sat down to seriously write 'A Little Nightmare Music,' to write something for TV was our original inspiration. But all the stuff we were writing down is not going to work on stage. We had to rewrite it so it would work on the stage.
Aleksey Igudesman
Work
Music
Writing
Seriously
First
Stage
Down
Our
TV
Would
TV Series
Dreamt
Something
Inspiration
Write
Had
Stuff
Always
Were
Going
Rewrite
Little
Working
Original
Sat
Series
Film
Nightmare
If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction.
Alex Chilton
Good
You
Song
Writing
Conviction
Out
Spirit
Good Song
Feels
Genuinely
How
Coming
Person
Any
Done
Decent
Anything
Then
Your
Expression
Popular music usually has a chorus that needs to repeat, and people need to remember the song. That's sort of the major guideline when you're writing a song.
Alex Ebert
Music
Needs
You
People
Song
Writing
Remember
Major
Sort
Repeat
Popular
Popular Music
Chorus
Need
Any experience that isn't fun is probably something I will at least use in my writing someday.
Alex Flinn
Experience
Writing
Will
Someday
Something
Least
Any
Use
Fun
Although my other ambition was to be a musical theater star (and I would attend college on a voice scholarship), writing was never far from my mind.
Alex Flinn
Writing
Mind
College
Ambition
Other
Musical
Musical Theater
Would
Voice
Never
Scholarship
Attend
Although
Theater
Far
Star
When I'm really fixated on a bit of writing, I can easily spend six days without leaving the house and barely leaving my room.
Alex Garland
Writing
Spend
Bit
Easily
Days
House
Without
Leaving
Fixated
Six
Six Days
Room
Really
Barely
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