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To compare writing an article for 'Sports Illustrated' to doing a piece for 'Real Sports', the article, it was all me. You know, I'm out there by myself with my pad and pencil. 'Real Sports,' I've got a producer, an assistant producer, and cameramen. It's an individual game versus a team game.
Frank Deford
Myself
Me
You
Game
Sports
Writing
Pencil
Out
Individual
Know
Piece
Sports Illustrated
Got
Real
Doing
Versus
Article
Pad
Producer
Team
Team Game
Compare
Illustrated
Assistant
People often lump radio and television together because they are both broadcast mediums. But radio, anyway, and the radio I do for NPR, is much closer to writing than it is to television.
Frank Deford
Together
People
Writing
Mediums
Broadcast
Television
Both
Because
Than
Closer
Often
Anyway
Much
Radio
Lump
Anytime you put yourself in a creative box, it's going to stifle you; it's not conducive to the writing or recording process.
Frank Iero
You
Creative
Yourself
Writing
Recording
Put
Box
Stifle
Conducive
Going
Process
Anytime
Reading and writing is so important, and it's something I am really keen to promote. It's something that can be a bit lost these days with so much else going on.
Frank Lampard
Writing
Important
Reading
Lost
Else
Bit
Promote
Something
Days
Am
Going
Much
Really
Keen
I worked in a number of high schools in New York, and I wound up at Stuyvesant High School, which is known nationally for producing brilliant scientists and mathematicians, but I had writing classes. I thought I was teaching. They thought I was teaching, but I was learning.
Frank McCourt
Learning
Writing
School
Brilliant
Thought
High
Wound
Classes
High School
High Schools
Had
New
Schools
Known
Scientists
Mathematicians
Up
York
New York
Which
Worked
Producing
Teaching
Number
I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book.
Frank McCourt
Book
Writing
Matter
Nothing
Just
Proceed
Happens
Next
Usual
Helps
I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know. And writing Langston Hughes replica poems became me wanting to write like Stevie Wonder.
Frank Ocean
Life
Me
You
Writing
My Life
Somewhere
First
Singing
Booked
Poems
Write
Studio
Along
Like
Know
Stevie
Stevie Wonder
Became
Wonder
Replica
Hughes
Wanting
Radio
Season
The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too - eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko's, Fatburger, Subway - I was a sandwich artist - and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance.
Frank Ocean
Day
Me
Every Day
People
Writing
First
Half
Every
Too
Other
Claims
Jobs
Had
Songs
Studio
Half Years
Insurance
Years
Artist
Subway
Sandwich
Worked
Eleven
Four
What I really care about is writing... Some people feel about touring the way I feel about writing, which is, 'Whoa, I can't believe I get to do this as a job.'
Frankie Cosmos
People
Writing
Care
Job
Some People
Whoa
Believe
Way
Some
About
Touring
Feel
Get
Which
Really
If I had to pick an artist that I look up to and am inspired by, it's Matisse because of how many times he would paint the same idea until he felt like he maybe got it right, and I try to do the same thing with my writing.
Frankie Cosmos
Writing
Try
Same Thing
Would
Inspired
Had
Pick
He
Idea
Like
Look
Until
Because
Felt
Got
How
Am
How Many Times
Up
Times
Same
Artist
Maybe
Paint
Many
Right
Thing
The way my body is viewed in the world is different than a male body. People are going to write about the performance, but they're probably also going to be writing about what I was wearing or my hair, which just doesn't happen to men.
Frankie Cosmos
People
Writing
World
Men
Hair
Way
Wearing
About
Write
Performance
Also
Male
Than
Going
Just
Different
Happen
Which
Body
Viewed
I think what's happening with book advances is something that most of the world just doesn't fully appreciate, especially when it comes to nonfiction, because writing a book of investigative journalism is an expensive endeavor, and the system works best if you have publishers making bets on authors.
Franklin Foer
Best
You
Book
Writing
World
Endeavor
Think
System
Something
Bets
Investigative
Advances
Journalism
Most
Because
Making
Nonfiction
Authors
Just
Expensive
Happening
Fully
Works
Publishers
Appreciate
Dean had just come from seeing his lawyer. That was the first time that I found out that he had consulted a lawyer. He wanted to tell me what he thought was going on, but he was writing it down as if my house was bugged. He acted like everything was bugged.
Fred F. Fielding
Time
Me
Writing
Thought
Lawyer
First
Down
Everything
Out
Tell
Seeing
Had
He
Come
Like
House
Bugged
First Time
Dean
His
Going
Just
Wanted
Acted
Found
I first wrote a biography of Thomas Carlyle, and it turned out I loved writing biographies and had a talent for it. I believed I had a contribution to make.
Fred Kaplan
Writing
First
Thomas
Out
Had
Talent
Wrote
Make
Contribution
Loved
Turned
Believed
Biographies
Biography
At this stage, my chief professional goal is simply to keep on writing and making a living at it.
Fred Saberhagen
Writing
Stage
Living
Simply
Making
Making A Living
Goal
Chief
Professional
Keep
I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.
Fred Saberhagen
Age
Writing
Seriously
About
Advanced
Fairly
Started
I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't been a problem.
Fred Saberhagen
People
Writing
Problem
Some
Writer
Outside
Mainly
Block
Been
Source
Afflicts
Suspect
Stable
Far
Who
Income
Ample
The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets - an achievement generally pushed home politically, by writing clauses into various treaties and aid packages.
Fredric Jameson
War
Home
Achievement
Writing
World
Made
Films
Aid
States
Markets
Secure
Various
Clause
Generally
Pushed
Since
Massive
Foreign
End
Dominance
Effort
Politically
Packages
United
United States
Second
Treaties
World War
Second World War
At school I was really heavily dyslexic, so I really struggled academically with reading and writing.
Freya Ridings
Dyslexic
Writing
School
Reading
Struggled
Academically
Really
Rapping was something I always wanted to do, so after school, my friends and I would catch the bus to my house and just sit there writing songs, every day.
G-Eazy
Day
Every Day
Writing
School
Sit
Every
Would
Rapping
Something
Songs
Catch
House
Always
Friends
Just
Wanted
After
After-School
Bus
Anytime you're writing stories about a group of people with whom you have limited experience, there's a lot of guesswork.
G. Willow Wilson
You
Experience
People
Writing
Group
About
Limited
Lot
Stories
Anytime
Whom
To me, writing an ongoing series feels like driving a freight train downhill. All you can do is steer and pray.
G. Willow Wilson
Me
You
Writing
Ongoing
Steer
Driving
Feels
Like
Freight
Pray
Train
Downhill
Series
I don't have to worry about writing jokes. I just tell stories about things that have happened to me. As long as I'm alive and I'm living and I'm experiencing different things every day, the show will always change.
Gabriel Iglesias
Day
Me
Change
Jokes
Every Day
Writing
Will
Long
Living
Every
Worry
Alive
Tell
About
Always
Just
Different
Experiencing
Stories
Happened
Show
Different Things
Things
I've grown up with a piano in the house, and that's where I started to be able to learn things by ear. Guitar kind of happened, and I was using it just for writing at first. Then, I was writing so much that I began to realise that I knew how to play, and that's when I started getting nerdy about it.
Gabrielle Aplin
Writing
Guitar
First
Kind
Nerdy
Able
About
Piano
Knew
House
Learn
How
Began
Up
Getting
Just
Where
Happened
Realise
Then
Much
Using
Grown
Grown-Up
Play
Things
Ear
Started
I think it's all about the people who listen to your music, and loving playing and writing. Once you've got those two, and they're your main two priorities, then radio and TV and all the other stuff that comes with it will come. But that's not the be-all end-all.
Gabrielle Aplin
Music
You
People
Writing
Will
Think
Other
Once
Those
TV
About
Main
Stuff
Come
Got
Priorities
End-All
Listen
Loving
Then
Your
Who
Radio
Playing
Two
I never had only one job. I was either playing ball or writing or doing TV or modeling.
Gabrielle Reece
Writing
Job
TV
Only
Never
Had
Ball
Doing
Modeling
Either
Playing
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