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I truly believe that writing is a continuum - so the different genres and forms are simply stops along the same continuum. Different ideas that need to be expressed sometimes require different forms for the ideas to float better. I don't write essays as often as I should.
Chris Abani
Writing
Better
Sometimes
Believe
Write
Simply
Along
Ideas
Genres
Truly
Continuum
Same
Essays
Often
Stops
Different
Forms
Different Genres
Different Ideas
Require
Should
Float
Expressed
Need
Like most writers, I find the Web is a wonderful distraction. Who doesn't need that last minute research before writing?
Chris Abani
Writing
Wonderful
Before
Research
Last-Minute
Distraction
Find
Minute
Web
Writers
Like
Most
Who
Last
Need
My natural tendency is to write about zombie bunnies, but one of my first writing teachers got incorporated into my writing superego, and I keep hearing his admonition to make things feel more real the weirder they get.
Chris Adrian
Natural
Writing
First
About
More
Tendency
Write
Feel
Weirder
Make
Got
Real
His
Hearing
Get
Natural Tendency
Teachers
Keep
Things
Zombie
Incorporated
I've found it really hard to finish writing songs when you're writing on not just your schedule but somebody else's.
Chris Carmack
You
Writing
Somebody
Else
Finish
Schedule
Songs
Just
Really
Your
Hard
Found
I've been writing songs on little pieces of paper since I was a little kid, and it's just always been something I've done.
Chris Carmack
Writing
Paper
Kid
Something
Songs
Since
Pieces
Always
Been
Done
Just
Little
Little Kid
The reason why I love people, and writing about them, is because they don't always respond with hate and anger. If they did I wouldn't have a story to tell. Who wants to know about someone who was brutalised and became brutal? I'm interested in the exceptions.
Chris Cleave
Love
Anger
Hate
People
Writing
Respond
Tell
About
Someone
Brutal
Exceptions
Know
Became
Because
Always
Did
Wants
Story
Interested
Them
Reason
Who
Why
I can act... I do a little writing as well. And I'm good at typing. I'm a creative typist, actually.
Chris Colfer
Good
Creative
Writing
Typing
Well
Little
Act
Actually
When I started writing songs for Temple of the Dog, I went to my room with my acoustic guitar, and I was happy staying in that mode. It was more chordal based and more lyric driven. I enjoyed not making riff-based songs built around a guitar idea.
Chris Cornell
Happy
Writing
Dog
Guitar
Lyric
Temple
Staying
More
Driven
Songs
Idea
Around
Built
Making
Mode
Acoustic
Acoustic Guitar
Room
Based
Enjoyed
Started
My early life had a lot to do with my origins as a writer, but I didn't get into doing any writing at all until I was about 35 years old.
Chris Crutcher
Life
Writing
Old
About
Writer
Had
Until
Doing
Years
Lot
Get
Any
Origins
Early
Early Life
If you're writing about angry people, you use the language of anger. If you're writing about desperate people, you use the language of desperation.
Chris Crutcher
Angry
You
Anger
People
Writing
Desperation
Language
Desperate
About
Use
It's weird writing for a documentary because I have all these ideas for what I want to happen, but what actually happens is obviously completely different.
Chris Cubas
Writing
Weird
Ideas
Documentary
Obviously
Because
Different
Want
Happen
Happens
Actually
I think I'm in a really nice position, where I'm sure I could do another show if I wanted to do one, but right now the main thing in my mind is writing songs.
Chris Isaak
Writing
Mind
Nice
Think
Could
Main
Songs
Main Thing
Another
Sure
Where
Wanted
Really
Show
Now
Right
Thing
Position
I have a journalism degree, but I'd rather be the person who is being written about rather than the person who is writing.
Chris Jericho
Writing
Degree
About
Rather
Written
Journalism
Than
Person
Being
Who
Other people are talking about writing books about my life, or about some of the things I've done. I find it strange, but I also feel it's my life and my story, and I guess I better be the one to get it on paper the way it actually happened.
Chris Kyle
Life
Strange
People
Writing
Better
My Life
Other
Guess
Books
Way
Paper
Find
Some
About
Feel
Also
Talking
Get
Done
Happened
Story
Actually
Things
Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actually, in the word of the publisher, she's 'collaborating' on a book. What an embarrassment! It's one of these 'I told you,' books that jocks do.
Chris Matthews
You
Book
Writing
Word
Reading
Book Writing
Books
Collaborating
Laugh
Embarrassment
She
Just
Sarah
Sarah Palin
Now
Publisher
Actually
Palin
Writing is a solitary occupation; we don't really have any colleagues.
Chris Pavone
Writing
Solitary
Colleagues
Occupation
Any
Really
If you can't figure out how to make the beginning of your book compelling, you're probably not writing a compelling book.
Chris Pavone
You
Book
Writing
Beginning
Out
Make
How
Your
Figure
Compelling
Who will want to write if writing doesn't pay?
Chris Pavone
Writing
Will
Pay
Write
Want
Who
For me, I love exploring ideas and throwing stuff against the wall and seeing what fits, and if I had a really nice collaborative team around me who could deal with the more day-to-day minutia, that would be fun. And directing sometime in the future and writing... yeah, I can see that all in my future. But I can be incredibly lazy.
Chris Pine
Love
Future
Me
Writing
Nice
Incredibly
Collaborative
Would
Would-Be
See
Seeing
Directing
More
Sometime
Could
Throwing
Lazy
Had
Day-To-Day
Stuff
Ideas
Around
Deal
Yeah
Fits
Wall
Against
Really
Exploring
Team
Who
Fun
The writing process isn't something I'm in love with. I'm an illustrator who writes.
Chris Riddell
Love
Writing
Something
Writes
Writing Process
Process
Who
Illustrator
I'm doing a couple books at Dynamite. I'm writing Doc Savage over there.
Chris Roberson
Savage
Writing
Books
Over
Couple
Doing
Dynamite
The goal is always just to write the best song that you can write. I mean, the process for writing a song is the process for writing a song. It's not something I look at it as something I need to do something different.
Chris Stapleton
Best
You
Song
Writing
Something
Write
Look
Always
Goal
Just
Different
Process
Mean
Need
At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration.
Chris Van Allsburg
Myself
You
Writing
Mind
First
Illustration
Approach
Guess
See
Pictures
Call
Questions
What If
Story
Might
Then
Asking
Asking Questions
Creating
I like writing comic pages, discovering the rhythm of the panels, learning how much you can and can't express. It's good to stretch myself as a writer instead of always doing prose work; I write screenplays for the same reason.
Chris Wooding
Work
Myself
Good
You
Learning
Writing
Write
Writer
Prose
Instead
Like
Always
Comic
How
How Much
Doing
Discovering
Same
Screenplays
Rhythm
Much
Pages
Reason
Express
Stretch
My biggest ritual is writing at home more than on the road. I do very little writing on the road. Actually, it's funny to bring this into it, but one thing I always do is have a cup of coffee. I drink the most coffee when I'm writing songs.
Chris Young
Funny
Home
Writing
Coffee
One Thing
More
Drink
Ritual
Songs
Road
Most
Always
Cup
Very
Than
Biggest
Little
Actually
Thing
Bring
I wrote 'Happy Man' with a couple of boys of mine. I have been writing in Nashville for a long time. Of course I was writing songs back in Oklahoma when I was a kid.
Christian Kane
Time
Man
Happy
Writing
Long
Long Time
Back
Mine
Kid
Oklahoma
Songs
Couple
Wrote
Course
Boy
Nashville
Been
Happy Man
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