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As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
Candace Bushnell
Me
Writing
Become
Fall
Sense
Clear
Feel
Pieces
Make
Begin
Place
Certain
Certain Things
Right
Things
Start
I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.
Candace Bushnell
Writing
Out
About
Write
Soon
New
Arrived
York
Send
Short
New York
Stories
Short Stories
Them
Used
Started
It's a job. When I'm writing I'm going to do it five to six days a week and I'm going to work for four to six hours a day. There's no magic writing fairy. It's just hard work.
Candace Bushnell
Work
Hard Work
Day
Writing
Job
Magic
Week
Days
Hours
Fairy
Five
Going
Six
Six Days
Just
Hard
Four
I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
Candace Bushnell
You
Writing
Half
Year
Own
About
About A Year
Had
Column
Observer
Most
Talked
Said
Editor
Been
Stories
After
Them
Should
Working
Your
NY
Started
I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just - he's one of those writers where you just go, 'There are people just meant to be novel writers.'
Candice Accola
Love
You
People
Writing
Hundred
Those
Corrections
Writers
He
Jonathan
Read
Go
His
Just
Where
Really
Meant
Meant To Be
Pages
Novel
Now
Right
Enjoyed
Last
If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
Candice Millard
Truth
Truth Is
Writing
Reward
Challenge
Also
Greatest
Nonfiction
Greatest Challenge
Greatest Reward
Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
Cara Delevingne
Writing
Fear
Singing
Kind
Songs
Feel
Biggest
Conquer
Thing
Need
I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'
Carine Roitfeld
Great
Me
People
Writing
Picture
Great Artist
Extraordinary
Books
Say
Photo
Photo Shoots
Something
Am
Doing
Shoots
Artist
Just
Note
Ask
Painter
Why
Streets
I guess I went into journalism to save the world. I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.
Carl Honore
Writing
World
Save The World
Guess
Slightly
Through
Journalism
Felt
Always
Wanted
Rotate
Save
When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
Carl Sandburg
Me
Writing
Black
Girl
Hair
Pretty
Poetry
Go
Midnight
Poor
First, I'd become an avid reader of blogs, especially music blogs, and they seemed to be where the critical-thinking action was at, to have the kind of energy that I associate with rock writing of the 1970s or Internet e-mail discussion lists a decade ago.
Carl Wilson
Music
Writing
Internet
First
Become
Energy
Action
Kind
Seemed
Reader
Rock
Blogs
Decade
Discussion
Lists
Where
Avid
Associate
Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best.
Carla Bley
Best
Writing
Big
Band
Few
Living
Composers
Between
Talent
Big Band
Am
Doing
Lot
Very
Them
Far
I care about writing music and playing my music.
Carla Bruni
Music
Writing
Care
About
Playing
Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
Carlos Fuentes
You
Fight
Yourself
Writing
Diplomacy
Trouble
Sense
Secretary
Embassy
Students
Had
Crying
She
Because
Imports
Opposite
Lady
Much
Who
Exports
I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without paying any attention to labels, conventions or silly critical fads.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Writing
Critical
Silly
Fads
Attention
Voracious
Like
Reader
Sort
Without
Labels
Any
Conventions
Prejudice
Explore
Paying
There's always a special feeling I have while writing any song.
Carly Rae Jepsen
Song
Writing
Feeling
Always
Any
While
Special
My main object is to write, to keep learning. I always try to perfect my composition. But I do like writing film and opera music. I believe that it fulfills the needs of particular situations.
Carmine Coppola
Music
Needs
Learning
Writing
Try
Believe
Object
Composition
Perfect
Write
Main
Particular
Like
Opera
Always
Situations
Fulfills
Keep
Film
Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.
Carol Ann Duffy
Writing
Language
Feelings
Find
About
Poets
Deal
Trying
Intense
Images
I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape.
Carol Ann Duffy
Writing
Before
See
Poem
Shape
Arriving
Just
Process
Start
I had really good English teachers in elementary through high school. Not only were we required to read a lot - which is the best training for writing - we were drilled on grammar every day, every night. I hated the drill part, but I don't dangle my participles too often.
Carol Berg
Best
Good
Day
Every Day
Writing
Training
School
Every
Too
High
Hated
High School
Only
Drill
Through
Had
Part
Read
Were
Lot
Often
Grammar
Which
Really
Required
Teachers
English
Elementary
Every Night
Night
One of the things that put me off writing for a while was that piece of advice everybody gives new writers: 'Write what you know.' Nobody would ever want to read about my boring life! But I do know a lot of things about different societies' cultures and mythologies. The way people were and are.
Carol Berg
Life
Me
You
People
Writing
Advice
Everybody
Way
One Of The Things
Would
Boring
About
Gives
Write
Writers
Put
Nobody
New
Know
Piece
Read
Were
Lot
Off
Cultures
Different
Want
While
Ever
Things
Societies
Writing is communication, and you don't know how you're doing until you put it in front of someone else's eyes. You also learn from critiquing other writers' work.
Carol Berg
Work
You
Eyes
Communication
Writing
Other
Else
Someone
Writers
Put
Know
Until
Also
Learn
How
Doing
Front
I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and, you know, moving sentences around. I like that.
Carol Burnett
Love
Myself
You
Writing
Typing
Out
Seeing
Computer
Idea
Like
Know
Around
Printing
Moving
Sentences
I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love.
Carol Burnett
Love
Writing
First
Write
First Love
Always
Loved
You just can't make bad writing look good. But if you have good writing, you just say it, and it's almost done.
Carol Kane
Good
You
Writing
Say
Bad
Almost
Good Writing
Look
Make
Done
Just
You can fake a lot of stuff, but you can't fake if the story isn't there and if the writing isn't good.
Carol Kane
Good
You
Writing
Stuff
Fake
Lot
Story
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