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It helps to be able to be alone. 'Cuz writing is done alone, unless you collaborate, but I don't do that. Ask my ex-wife.
Dirk Benedict
Alone
You
Writing
Unless
Collaborate
Ex-Wife
Able
Done
Ask
Cuz
Helps
If I am writing down something and it is my idea, my imagination, it won't be fact.
Disha Patani
Writing
Down
Imagination
Something
Fact
Idea
Am
I don't ever take a break. I'm always writing.
Dito Montiel
Writing
Take
Always
Break
Ever
Whether I'm writing the script, or someone else writes the initial draft, I'm always an actor's director first. I always try to listen to them a lot and try to put their voices into their character.
Dito Montiel
Character
Director
Writing
Try
First
Else
Someone
Voices
Writes
Put
Always
Lot
Listen
Whether
Script
Them
Initial
Actor
Draft
For my type of story and my kind of writing, I think 'Vanity Fair' is the right forum.
Dominick Dunne
Writing
Think
Type
Kind
Vanity
Vanity Fair
Fair
Story
Forum
Right
As a media member, my goal is to inform the American fans of persons of character. It's a joy for me, either writing a good story or telling a story on video.
Dominique Dawes
Good
Character
Me
Writing
Joy
Fans
Member
Telling
Good Story
Goal
American
Inform
Story
Either
Video
Persons
Media
The most fun part for an actor is the writing and the story and the character. That's very fulfilling.
Dominique McElligott
Character
Writing
Part
Most
Very
Story
Fulfilling
Fun
Actor
I was constantly in the studio at my home writing ideas that would later become 'Hotel California' or 'Victim of Love.'
Don Felder
Love
Home
Writing
Become
Victim
Later
Would
Constantly
Studio
Hotel
Ideas
California
When we were writing songs for the Eagles, Don Henley would be involved in some new love relationship, and he was always excited about them. But we were all waiting for the day that they would break up.
Don Felder
Love
Day
Relationship
Waiting
Writing
Would
Would-Be
Some
About
Songs
He
Excited
New
For The Day
Involved
Always
Were
New Love
Up
Break
Break Up
Them
Eagles
If you want to get rich from writing, write the sort of thing that's read by persons who move their lips when they're reading to themselves.
Don Marquis
You
Writing
Reading
Rich
Write
Read
Sort
Get
Lips
Move
Want
Persons
Themselves
Who
Thing
I'm always writing at night - things I would change, things I would do differently. When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.
Don Mattingly
Change
Writing
Change Things
Would
Write
Head
Sticks
Always
Note
Differently
Things
Night
My expectations for myself were never high. I had a very unusual way of writing songs and of thinking about music. I wasn't at all like Bob Dylan or Simon and Garfunkel. I was completely different - I didn't have a David Geffen at my side.
Don McLean
Music
Myself
Writing
Thinking
Side
Way
High
About
Simon
David
Never
Had
Songs
Like
Unusual
Were
Very
Expectations
Different
Dylan
Bob
Bob Dylan
When writing, I split my time between my chambers and my satellite office: my neighborhood Chick-fil-A. It offers the word-nerd trifecta: I bring Bose headphones; they provide Wi-Fi and waffle fries.
Don Willett
Time
Writing
Neighborhood
My Time
Split
Between
Headphones
Waffle
Provide
Fries
Offers
Office
Satellite
Chambers
Bring
Well, if you're writing a thriller, you have to have your character in mortal jeopardy on page 1 or it's not a thriller.
Don Winslow
Character
You
Writing
Thriller
Mortal
Well
Page
Your
Jeopardy
I honestly feel like we never had a bad episode by TV standards. Every week I felt there were so many strong components of the show, especially the writing.
Donal Logue
Writing
Strong
Every
Honestly
TV
Bad
Components
Week
Never
Had
Feel
Like
Felt
Were
Episode
Show
Standards
Many
Writing is a lot of fun for me; that's not to say it's easy, but I really do enjoy it.
Donald Driver
Me
Writing
Enjoy
Say
Easy
Lot
Really
Fun
A guy named Peter Rabe wrote a batch of books for Gold Medal in the '50s, and he was absolutely the single largest influence on writing style. I was completely in love with the way the man wrote.
Donald E. Westlake
Love
Man
Writing
Single
Style
Batch
Books
Way
Guy
Absolutely
Writing Style
He
Named
Wrote
Gold
Gold Medal
Influence
Peter
Medal
Largest
Writing is a very strenuous thing - it's like banging your head against a wall. At the end of the day, acting is better, just because nobody ever asked me if I wanted a Pellegrino in the writer's room.
Donald Glover
Day
Me
Writing
Better
End Of The Day
Writer
Head
Nobody
Like
Because
End
Very
Wall
Banging
Just
Just Because
Wanted
Against
Room
Asked
Acting
Your
Ever
Thing
Strenuous
I write when the urge hits me, getting the words down as fast as I can type and then I step back from what I just wrote and start a dialectical process where I begin challenging my own writing.
Donald McKay
Me
Writing
Words
Own
Down
Type
Back
My Own
Write
Step
Wrote
Dialectical
Begin
Hits
Getting
Just
Where
Process
Urge
Then
Fast
Challenging
Start
The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy.
Donald Miller
Writing
Memoir
Like
Because
Reason
I'd always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.
Donald Ray Pollock
Great
Writing
World
Thought
Big
Books
Way
Would
Would-Be
Great Way
Reader
Always
Been
Get
Loved
I listen to a lot of different stuff, from Mozart to Johnny Dowd to Monster Magnet. I don't listen to music while I'm writing a draft, but I do listen to it when I'm revising.
Donald Ray Pollock
Music
Writing
Monster
Magnet
Johnny
Stuff
Lot
Revising
Listen
Different
While
Mozart
Draft
I sort of like writing about weird characters, I guess.
Donald Ray Pollock
Writing
Guess
Characters
About
Weird
Like
Sort
When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain.
Donna Tartt
Rain
Writing
Water
Drop
Way
Detail
Color
Almost
Leaf
Concentrating
Am
Concrete
Off
Wet
Rolls
After
Room
Painted
Wholly
It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.
Donna Tartt
Work
Me
People
Writing
Will
Other
Because
Comments
Influence
Happens
While
Hard
Show
I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.
Donna Tartt
Work
Writing
Finished
William
Admire
About
Writer
Very
American
Essay
Maxwell
Just
Much
Whose
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