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When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
Gabrielle Zevin
Writing
School
Thought
Playwright
Would
Would-Be
Computer
Learned
Around
How
Years
Eight
Many
Present
Received
Started
Plays
When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then I started to wonder if the music wasn't affecting my writing in ways that I didn't necessarily intend.
Gabrielle Zevin
Music
Time
Writing
First
Ways
Would
More
Make
Because
Pass
Affecting
Wonder
Quickly
Intend
Listen
Then
Used
Necessarily
Started
I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing.
Gaby Hoffmann
Writing
School
Thought
College
High
High School
About
Never
Knew
Study
Always
Go
Walking
Graduated
Just
Wanted
Literature
Away
I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end. I thought I would be a teacher, but I didn't really think about it in any practical way.
Gaby Hoffmann
Teacher
Writing
School
Thought
Think
Way
Though
Would
Would-Be
About
Study
Practical
Doing
End
Up
Any
In The End
Literature
Really
Even
I love the Victorian era, and I always have, but I had a leg up on the writing because I was familiar with a lot of the science from the Victorian era. And that led to a massive interest in the science of this time of history.
Gail Carriger
Love
Time
History
Science
Writing
Had
Massive
Because
Always
Era
Led
Lot
Up
Familiar
Leg
Interest
Victorian
My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote the music and lyrics and I wrote the book for a children's musical, 'Spacenapped' that was produced by a neighborhood theater in Brooklyn.
Gail Carson Levine
Music
Me
Experience
Book
Writing
Husband
First
Lyrics
Musical
Neighborhood
Brooklyn
David
Adult
Wrote
Led
Children
Theater
Interest
Produced
I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
Gail Carson Levine
Myself
Writing
Drew
More
Write
Had
Like
Always
Am
Been
Process
Happier
Interested
Much
Hard
Painted
Found
Hardest
Illustrating
Once you're done being president, you tend to want to defend your record more than plumb your inner feelings. I find it hard to imagine Obama going home at night and writing sensitive, introspective journal entries about his meeting with John Boehner.
Gail Collins
Home
You
Writing
Feelings
President
Meeting
Once
Obama
Find
Introspective
John
Record
About
More
Tend
Journal
His
Than
Done
Going
Going Home
Being
Want
Sensitive
Your
Hard
Inner
Inner Feelings
Night
Defend
Imagine
When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.
Gail Collins
Writing
Words
Simple
Word
Will
Matters
Way
Ability
Could
Songs
Mash
Instantly
Pictures
Like
Became
Because
Edit
Came
Dense
Up
Links
Just
Screen
Just Because
Less
Tweets
Now
Imagine
When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.
Gao Xingjian
You
Writing
Words
Mind
Own
Way
Alive
Able
My Own
Existence
Use
Your
Keep
When I lived in China, my works were already being banned, and I couldn't publish. In those days, when I was in China, I was writing for myself, so that's the process of writing for myself that was the most important thing.
Gao Xingjian
Myself
Writing
Important
Publish
Those
Days
Most
Most Important Thing
Important Thing
Were
Being
The Most Important
Banned
Process
China
Works
Lived
Thing
When I completed writing 'Soul Mountain,' I more or less closed the accounts with China for myself. I was 50 years old when I left, so China is already within me.
Gao Xingjian
Myself
Me
Soul
Writing
Old
Closed
Completed
More
More Or Less
Within
Years
Left
Mountain
Accounts
China
Less
I fantasised about F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' - I loved it, and then I read everything J. D. Salinger had to offer. Then I was turned on to Kerouac, and his spontaneous prose, his stream of consciousness way of writing. I admired him so much, and I romanticised so much about the '40s and '50s.
Garrett Hedlund
Great
Writing
Stream
Everything
Way
Great Gatsby
Admired
About
Had
Prose
Spontaneous
Him
Read
His
Salinger
Fitzgerald
Scott
Offer
Loved
Turned
Then
Much
Consciousness
From my years of teaching creative writing, I know that new writers take the setting for granted, as simply a place to set the action, but setting is a vital element in fiction writing and deserves serious treatment.
Garry Disher
Creative
Writing
Action
Setting
Vital
Take
Writers
Simply
New
Know
Years
Fiction
Fiction Writing
Place
Granted
Teaching
Creative Writing
Serious
Element
Deserves
Set
Treatment
To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.
Garry Disher
You
Writing
Must
Per
Writer
Students
Reader
Readers
Were
Cent
Many
The English playwrights of the '50s and '60s didn't really keep writing or getting produced, while the Irish did. There's encouragement for the younger ones also in the fact that Ireland is exceptional in its ability to make theater part of the national dialogue, and it reaches to all four corners of the country.
Garry Hynes
Writing
Country
National
Encouragement
Playwrights
Corners
Ability
Fact
Exceptional
Part
Also
Make
Dialogue
Ireland
Irish
Did
Getting
Theater
While
Younger
Produced
Really
English
Keep
Four
I organize a chess festival in Hungary. I support chess in schools, and I have my own chess foundation. And I started writing books.
Garry Kasparov
Writing
Hungary
Own
Books
My Own
Support
Schools
Chess
Festival
Organize
Foundation
Started
While I'm playing baseball, I'm still writing songs and having tapes sent to me. I'm sure I'll spend a lot of time in the whirlpool resting these tired bones, so I'll be thinking of music then.
Garth Brooks
Music
Time
Me
Tired
Writing
Resting
Thinking
Spend
Having
Songs
Sure
Still
Tapes
Lot
While
Sent
Then
Baseball
Playing
Bones
I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand.
Garth Ennis
Writing
Will
Tend
Read
Doing
Hand
Task
Forget
Get
Just
While
Ever
There is a very big difference between writing for children and writing for young adults. The first thing I would say is that 'Young Adult' does not mean 'Older Children', it really does mean young but adult, and the category should be seen as a subset of adult literature, not of children's books.
Garth Nix
Writing
Seen
First
Big
Young
Older
Books
Say
Would
Adult
Between
Category
First Thing
Does
Big Difference
Very
The First Thing
Young Adult
Young Adults
Difference
Children
Literature
Mean
Really
Should
Thing
I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nonstop since I was 19. I realized very early on that I would need a day job, and I wanted one that was in books.
Garth Nix
Day
Book
Writing
Job
Books
Would
Pretty
Day Job
Since
Industry
Nonstop
Been
Very
Wanted
Loved
Realized
Much
Working
Publishing
Early
Need
I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.
Garth Nix
Work
Writing
Jobs
Various
Studied
Until
Editorial
Rep
Sales
Up
Australia
Ended
Screenwriting
Then
Publicist
Actually
University
For a long time, I have been wanting to write a book for singles that would help them in the dating process and in getting ready for marriage. Most of my writing, I've written to couples who are already married, because I've been doing marriage counseling for 35 years.
Gary Chapman
Time
Marriage
Book
Writing
Long
Long Time
Married
Would
Dating
Write
Counseling
Written
Most
Couples
Because
Ready
Doing
Singles
Been
Years
Getting
Wanting
Process
Them
Help
Who
In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate.
Gary Cherone
Me
Man
Writing
Fate
Gun
Own
Suicide
Extreme
Philosophy
Photo
Taking
Advocating
Am
Cover
His
Heavy
Themes
Measure
Neck
I got a job as an assistant film editor, which lasted for a few years, but I found writing incredibly difficult, and I thought, 'How am I going to make a film if I can't write?' I didn't really comprehend that someone else would do that bit.
Gary Hume
Writing
Job
Thought
Few
Difficult
Lasted
Else
Incredibly
Bit
Would
Someone
Comprehend
Write
Make
Got
Editor
How
Am
Years
Going
Which
Really
Film
Found
Assistant
Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California.
Gary Numan
You
Writing
Money
Logical
Somewhere
Trouble
Big
Few
Living
Thinking
Collapsed
Able
About
More
Tour
Touring
Step
California
Industry
Another
Making
Making Money
Sales
Scores
Forever
Get
Artists
Which
Reason
Lucrative
Film
Now
Why
Film Industry
Album
Albums
Need
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