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Harper Collins gave me a letter of intent saying that they want me to pen down my autobiography. When I was recollecting the incidents of my life for that, I selected only those incidents which were turning points in my life. I staged it instead of writing it.
Anupam Kher
Life
Saying
Me
Writing
My Life
Down
Gave
Pen
Those
Collins
Only
Selected
Points
Instead
Were
Intent
Autobiography
Want
Staged
Which
Turning
Turning Points
Incidents
Letter
When I was writing 'The White Tiger' I lived in a building pretty much exactly like the one I described in this novel, and the people in the book are the people I lived with back then. So I didn't have to do much research to find them.
Aravind Adiga
Book
People
Writing
Building
White
Research
Back
Find
Exactly
Pretty
Like
Tiger
Them
Then
Much
Novel
Lived
I like writing and don't confine myself to just the words or just the music. But I don't particularly write songs with myself in mind.
Aretha Franklin
Music
Myself
Writing
Words
Mind
Write
Songs
Like
Particularly
Just
Confine
I got some experience appearing as a guest on several news channels, and I thought over the years I would be able to mix practicing law and writing with providing analysis on TV. I didn't know that would lead to a full-time opportunity that would take me away from my law practice. When MSNBC made me an offer to join, I jumped at it.
Ari Melber
News
Me
Experience
Writing
Law
Opportunity
Thought
Made
Practice
Analysis
Channels
Guest
Several
TV
Would
Would-Be
Able
Some
Join
Take
Lead
Over
Know
Practicing
Got
Mix
Years
Providing
Offer
Full-Time
Appearing
Away
I grew up writing songs in my room on GarageBand, and I would make the beats just out of layering my vocals over and over again. Very Imogen Heap-inspired.
Ariana Grande
Writing
Out
Would
Vocals
Songs
Beats
Over
Make
Up
Very
Just
Grew
Again
Room
I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community and being alone, and it's the best of both possible worlds.
Ariel Dorfman
Alone
Best
Writing
Community
Think
Worlds
Solitary
Possible
Both
Most
Exists
Very
Person
Getting
Being
Form
Being Alone
Communal
I'm not a polemicist; I had no business writing a polemic.
Ariel Levy
Business
Writing
No Business
Had
Polemic
I've been working on my own music. I've been writing an album, stuff that's kind of personal to my own life.
Ariel Winter
Life
Music
Writing
Own
Kind
My Own
Stuff
Been
Personal
Working
Album
I find it an easy way into writing pieces is to think what the character's voice is like, and start from there.
Armando Iannucci
Character
Writing
Think
Way
Easy
Find
Easy Way
Voice
Like
Pieces
Start
The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression - all of that is very important.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
You
Writing
Important
Way
Say
Give
Facial
Line
Very
Pause
Expression
I'm a 50-year-old guy making music for over 20 years. I've been writing songs since I was 20, so it's really been 30 years, and it's always been personal, but I've always told stories.
Art Alexakis
Music
Writing
Guy
Songs
Over
Since
Always
Making
Been
Years
Personal
Stories
Really
I don't put myself into the category of 'rock star writing his biography.' That's because we live our lives by falling into experiences. Things happen to us. Something you do takes hold of you, and then you do a lot of it.
Art Garfunkel
Myself
You
Writing
Live
Our
Our Lives
Something
Put
Takes
Category
Because
Rock
Rock Star
Falling
His
Lot
Experiences
Happen
Hold
Then
Us
Star
Lives
Things
Things Happen
Biography
There are certain things that I know I don't want to do anymore. Playing out-and-out terrorists who terrorise people and don't actually move the conversation on are not worth doing. So that's probably another reason I don't go back to America, because a lot of it is like that. It's boring, dull, very lazy writing.
Art Malik
Conversation
People
Writing
Worth
Back
Boring
Lazy
Like
Know
Another
Because
Terrorists
Doing
Go
Dull
Lot
Very
America
Move
Want
Anymore
Certain
Certain Things
Reason
Who
Actually
Things
Playing
Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage.
Arthur Godfrey
Good
Writing
Singing
Band
Stage
Pulse
Back
Solo
Gigs
Point
Well
Am
Years
Bands
Get
Stopped
Good Band
Groove
Fortunate
Who
Many
Now
Play
Four
Played
Playing
Geisha because when I was living in Japan, I met a fellow whose mother was a geisha, and I thought that was kind of fascinating and ended up reading about the subject just about the same time I was getting interested in writing fiction.
Arthur Golden
Time
Writing
Mother
Thought
Reading
Met
Living
Kind
Geisha
About
Fellow
Because
Subject
Up
Ended
Same
Getting
Just
Same Time
Fiction
Interested
Japan
Fascinating
Whose
When I began writing that I was able and did travel and met some fascinating people and also uncovered some history, which has not been discovered before.
Arthur Hailey
History
Travel
People
Writing
Met
Before
Able
Some
Uncovered
Also
Been
Discovered
Began
Did
Which
Fascinating
As enjoyable as it is when you're just writing and getting feedback from family members, it's 10 times more enjoyable, or 100 times more enjoyable, when you actually start getting paid for it, and people start reading your books, and once in a while you get a good review.
Arthur Slade
Good
Family
You
People
Writing
Feedback
Reading
Books
Once
Members
More
Review
Times
Get
Family Members
Getting
Just
While
Paid
Your
Actually
Enjoyable
Start
When writing fantastical literature, your biggest problem is getting your audience to believe the fantastical elements of your story.
Arthur Slade
Writing
Problem
Believe
Audience
Getting
Biggest
Story
Literature
Biggest Problem
Your
Elements
In a way, writing is an incredible act of individualism, producing your language, and yet to use it from the heart of a crowd as opposed to as an individual performance is a conflicting thing. I do stand alone, and yet it's not about being an individual or being ambitious.
Arundhati Roy
Alone
Heart
Writing
Language
Incredible
Way
About
Crowd
Individual
Individualism
Performance
Opposed
Ambitious
Being
Conflicting
Producing
Act
Stand
Use
Your
Thing
I think people ease into this careerist professionalism, so if you're a writer it's your job to manufacture books as opposed to writing them and to go to festivals and spend your life emotionally invested in reviews or the awards. You have to shrink your universe in a way. To me, it's the opposite.
Arundhati Roy
Life
Me
You
People
Writing
Job
Think
Universe
Spend
Books
Way
Ease
Invested
Writer
Emotionally
Opposed
Go
Opposite
Reviews
Festivals
Them
Your
Manufacture
Professionalism
Awards
Shrink
Writing genetic code like we do software will usher in a completely new way of living for all of us. When this happens, our society will be as fundamentally changed as we have seen from the invention of computers.
Arvind Gupta
Writing
Will
Seen
Invention
Living
Society
Changed
Software
Our
Way
Computers
Genetic
New
Like
New Way
Happens
Us
Usher
Code
Fundamentally
The process of writing is like creating a game of dominoes: The first domino creates the second incident, and so forth until the end.
Asghar Farhadi
Game
Writing
First
Like
Until
End
Domino
Process
Forth
Creates
Creating
Incident
Second
Before I worked on film, I studied the theatre, and I expected that I would spend my whole career in theatre. Gradually, I started writing for the cinema. However, I feel grateful towards the theatre. I love working with spectators, and I love this experience with the theatre, and I like theatre culture.
Asghar Farhadi
Love
Grateful
Culture
Experience
Theatre
Writing
Cinema
Before
Spend
Would
Studied
Feel
Towards
Like
However
Expected
Gradually
Worked
Working
Whole
Film
Spectators
Started
Career
I had no idea when I moved to Nashville people just were songwriters. I had no idea. So I guess I was selling myself as a singer when I first moved here. But then right after I first moved, I started writing a lot.
Ashley Monroe
Myself
People
Writing
First
Guess
No Idea
Had
Songwriters
Idea
Singer
Nashville
Were
Lot
Selling
Just
Moved
After
Then
Right
Here
Started
When my dad passed, there's a lot of sadness right below the surface, and I think there will be until the day I die. So, writing sad songs helps it. And when I sing them, it's pure therapy for me.
Ashley Monroe
Sad
Day
Me
Writing
Sadness
Will
Pure
Think
Songs
Sad Songs
Until
Sing
Surface
Passed
Lot
Die
Them
Therapy
Helps
Dad
Right
Below
My favorite subject was English or creative writing. We did poems and making a magazine, and I did one on celebrities. I called it 'Celebrity Life Magazine.' I interviewed my good friend Kaley Cuoco.
Ashley Tisdale
Life
Good
Creative
Writing
Favorite
Magazine
Poems
Making
Subject
Friend
Celebrities
Celebrity
Did
English
Creative Writing
Good Friend
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