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I got a job writing for a financial technology newsletter in Manhattan. I didn't even understand what I was writing about. The newsletter had, like, 2,000 subscribers, and it was $700 a year for a subscription.
Darin Strauss
Technology
Writing
Financial
Job
Year
About
Had
Like
Understand
Got
Subscription
Manhattan
Even
What makes writing a memoir difficult is harder to quantify. Is it learning to know when you're ready to talk about something? Is it seeing the structure in a lumpen mass of fact? Is it finding out what you were really like as other people saw you? Yes to each.
Darin Strauss
You
Learning
People
Writing
Difficult
Other
Saw
Out
Memoir
Finding
Seeing
About
Something
Structure
Fact
Mass
Like
Know
Talk
Quantify
Makes
Ready
Were
Yes
Really
Each
Harder
I spent three and a half years writing the novel 'Chang & Eng,' about the conjoined brothers for whom the term 'Siamese twins' was contrived, and when I think of these afflicted people, my only emotion is one of profound sympathy.
Darin Strauss
People
Writing
Three
Half
Think
Sympathy
Spent
Brothers
About
Only
Emotion
Term
Half Years
Years
Afflicted
Contrived
Novel
Whom
Twins
Profound
The process of writing and directing drives you to such extremes that it's natural to feel an affinity with insanity. I approach that madness as something dangerous, and I'm afraid, but also I want to go to it, to see what's there, to embrace it. I don't know why, but I'm drawn.
Dario Argento
You
Natural
Writing
Dangerous
Madness
Insanity
Approach
Extremes
Drawn
Embrace
See
Something
Directing
Drives
Feel
Know
Also
Go
Affinity
Afraid
Want
Process
Why
Many people think that it is important to have a title before you begin writing the book, but I think you should never sit around waiting for the right title to strike before you start writing. Crack on with the story, put in the hard work, and the title will come eventually.
Darren Shan
Work
Hard Work
You
Waiting
Book
People
Writing
Will
Important
Before
Sit
Think
Strike
Never
Put
Come
Around
Begin
Crack
Story
Title
Should
Hard
Many
Eventually
Right
Start
In general, I think writing characters, no one is 100 percent good or bad, and certainly, the bad characters never think they're bad themselves. Even the worst characters don't feel like they're bad guys on the inside.
Darren Star
Good
Writing
Think
Worst
Characters
Bad
Inside
Bad Guys
Percent
General
Guys
Never
No-One
Feel
Like
Themselves
Certainly
Even
I think women have such rich emotional lives that they are expressive about. I also think they're funny. I like watching strong female characters, and I like writing them. I don't know if it's conscious that I gravitate towards women, but it's certainly evolved that way.
Darren Star
Funny
Women
Writing
Strong
Rich
Think
Way
Characters
Evolved
Strong Female
About
Emotional
Towards
Like
Know
Also
Female
Female Characters
Them
Certainly
Expressive
Lives
Conscious
Gravitate
Watching
When writing on black life, whites have often been unwelcome, usually called upon to give witness or hauled in as the accused.
Darryl Pinckney
Life
Writing
Witness
Black
Hauled
Give
Unwelcome
Been
Accused
Often
Whites
I have been making hip-hop since I was a kid growing up in New York in the '80s and '90s. It's always been a hobby of mine - I've been making beats and writing songs for as long or longer than I've been acting.
Dash Mihok
Writing
Long
Mine
Kid
Songs
Beats
Longer
Since
New
Always
Making
Hip-Hop
Been
Up
Than
York
Hobby
New York
Acting
Growing
Growing Up
The problem with writing about religion is that you run the risk of offending sincerely religious people, and then they come after you with machetes.
Dave Barry
Religion
You
People
Writing
Problem
Run
Religious
Religious People
About
Risk
Sincerely
Come
Offending
The Problem With
After
Then
Three-dimensional results are important to me. I did once spend some time just writing, and floating around, and I lost my mind a little bit. I wasn't so good at that.
Dave Eggers
Time
Good
Me
Writing
Mind
Important
Lost
Spend
Once
Bit
Some
Three-Dimensional
Results
Around
Did
Just
Little
Little Bit
Floating
I always played around with writing songs, but when you're spending a lot of time in bars, you have a lot of big ideas, but you don't do much with them.
Dave Gahan
Time
You
Writing
Big
Spending
Songs
Ideas
Around
Always
Lot
Big Ideas
Them
Much
Bars
Played
Right now we're in the process of writing new material for a new record.
Dave Lombardo
Writing
Record
New
Material
New Material
Process
Now
Right
Careful writing is important for many reasons, not least that intelligent but hurried reporters will trust the presser, resulting in a cascade of secondary damage.
Dave deBronkart
Trust
Writing
Will
Important
Secondary
Cascade
Resulting
Least
Intelligent
Reporters
Reasons
Many
Damage
Careful
I'm very grateful that anyone takes the time to read what I write, coming from people perceive to be exclusively a musical background and having no traditional schooling in writing.
Davey Havok
Time
Grateful
People
Writing
Musical
Background
Perceive
Having
Write
Takes
Schooling
Read
Coming
Traditional
Very
Anyone
In my office I have a sign that says, 'Don't think. Just write!' and that's how I work. I try not to worry about each word, or even each sentence or paragraph. For me, stories evolve. Writing is a process. I rewrite each sentence, each manuscript, many times.
David A. Adler
Work
Me
Writing
Try
Word
Think
Worry
Says
Sign
Evolve
Paragraph
About
Write
How
Times
Office
Just
Rewrite
Stories
Process
Sentence
Manuscript
Many
Even
Each
I know I'm writing better now than I ever did for adults because I'm writing for an audience who know that they don't know everything.
David Almond
Writing
Better
Everything
Better Now
Adult
Know
Because
Audience
Than
Did
Who
Now
Ever
Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.
David Amram
Politics
Knowledge
Writing
World
Incredible
William
William Blake
Classic
Allen
Blake
Had
Authority
Literature
World Politics
I think, in a weird way, the reason I was drawn to screenwriting and the reason I really love doing it is because I love writing dialogue.
David Benioff
Love
Writing
Think
Way
Drawn
Weird
Weird Way
Because
Dialogue
Doing
Screenwriting
Really
Reason
If you're writing a screenplay for a feature, you don't have any involvement with the casting process, the editing process, the set design, the costume design, or any of that stuff.
David Benioff
You
Writing
Editing
Design
Costume
Feature
Casting
Stuff
Involvement
Any
Screenplay
Process
Set
In my brief writing life, it means I am still lucky that I have at least one more novel to complete. I do not expect that a story will arrive just because it is time to write another novel. It doesn't happen that way.
David Bergen
Life
Time
Writing
Will
Complete
Way
At Least One
More
Write
Another
Because
Am
Least
Still
Arrive
Expect
Just
Just Because
Happen
Story
Means
Lucky
Novel
Brief
I tend to push whatever is looking over my shoulder away when I am writing. It's once the box of books arrive that I say I'm going to be pilloried for this or that. But then you realize it's done, and there is nothing I can do. I'm proud of the book.
David Bergen
You
Book
Writing
Looking
Whatever
Nothing
Books
Once
Say
Tend
Push
Over
Box
Proud
Am
Arrive
Done
Going
Realize
Then
Shoulder
Away
The first accepted piece of writing is the most exciting. No other publishing experience matches it. Perhaps jaundice sets in, or expectations are raised, or one starts to think that one is better than is the truth.
David Bergen
Truth
Experience
Writing
Better
First
Think
Sets
Starts
Other
Exciting
Perhaps
Most
Piece
Accepted
Matches
Than
Expectations
Publishing
Raised
I think, generally, I just cannot really envision life without writing and producing records and singing.
David Bowie
Life
Writing
Singing
Think
Records
Generally
Envision
Without
Just
Cannot
Really
Producing
Writing can be taken up at any point. But you need to remember that the arts are fundamentally unfair. Hard work and diligence won't necessarily take you all the way. Talent, nepotism, influence, and pure luck play a huge part.
David Brin
Work
Hard Work
You
Writing
Remember
Pure
Unfair
Luck
Diligence
Way
Nepotism
Point
Take
Part
Taken
Talent
Huge
Up
Huge Part
Any
Arts
Influence
Hard
Play
Necessarily
Fundamentally
Need
I like to be surprised. Fresh implications and plot twists erupt as a story unfolds. Characters develop backgrounds, adding depth and feeling. Writing feels like exploring.
David Brin
Writing
Feeling
Adding
Backgrounds
Plot
Characters
Develop
Implications
Feels
Like
Fresh
Surprised
Erupt
Unfolds
Story
Depth
Exploring
Twists
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