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Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collaborate with them. And it just didn't work. Gary Paulsen
Work Me Writing Other Collaborate Mine Writers Were Years Years Ago Friends Westerns Just Wanted Them Who
No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it. Gary Wright
Work Music Hard Work Writing Free Recording Morally Morally Wrong Steal Stealing No-One Wrong Likes Artist Hard Download Copy
There's nothing quite like a quiet corner in a coffee shop to gather your thoughts and begin writing. Gautham Menon
Thoughts Writing Coffee Nothing Corner Like Begin Quiet Shop Quite Your Gather
I try to be a friend to my boys just the way my dad was with me. Subconsciously that reflects in my writing. Gautham Menon
Me Writing Try Way Boy Subconsciously Friend Reflects Just Dad
As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien. Gavin Bryars
Music Art Time Theatre Writing Alien Before Painting Collaborated Response Visual Colleges Had Idea Performance Pieces Context Taught Artists Whether Works
I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder. Gavin Bryars
Me Writing Remember Think Once Saxophone Cross Between Like Alto Louder Being Viola Started
You put these politicians in office, but then you've got to tell them what you want them to do. And it's intimidating to most people. I was intimidated by it. I mean, calling my senator or writing my senator? I'm like, what do I say? What do I do? But we're showing people that the political process is actually less intimidating than we think. Gavin Creel
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I'm like a junkie for writing. Gavin DeGraw
Writing Like
I could tell it was a popular move as a writer to walk down the bass lines while you were writing a song. Gavin DeGraw
You Song Writing Walk Down Bass Tell Could Writer Were Lines Move While Popular
I worked initially in very low-budget independent films that I often wrote. My early work was all written by myself, and then I adapted 'Tsotsi,' so I was used to the writing process being, in a way, integral to my directing. I felt it really prepared me. Gavin Hood
Work Myself Me Writing Films Early Work Way Independent Independent Films Directing Writing Process Written Wrote Felt Integral Very Often Being Process Low-Budget Then Worked Really Used Initially Prepared Early Adapted
I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo. Gavin Rossdale
Me Writing Dark Saves Side Guess Pretty Mysterious Songs Stuff Gloomy Always Been Going Fascinated
When I first began to write, I was writing on bass, because I was thinking more Public Image, more dub. Gavin Rossdale
Writing First Thinking Bass More Write Because Dub Began Public Public Image Image
I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines. Gayle Forman
Book Writing Path Thought Down Books Those Though Kids Magazines Someone Write Never Clearly Particular Wrote Read Always Up Want Grew Wanting Stories Them Newspapers Who Even Career Career Path
If you are writing a thriller with violence in it, the ending must be violent. You are delivering a promise to your reader. Gayle Lynds
You Writing Ending Promise Must Thriller Delivering Reader Your Violence Violent
I do love using keyboards and I love writing keyboard parts, but I am not a player in the true sense of the word. Geddy Lee
Love Writing Word Sense Keyboard Keyboards True Parts True Sense Am Using Player
I was in lots of dodgy bands growing up and I always fancied myself in a band. But, you know, I was rubbish at writing music. So maybe one day I'll play a rock star, or punk rocker. Gemma Arterton
Music Myself Day You Writing Punk Band Rubbish One Day Know Rock Always Rock Star Rocker Lots Up Bands Maybe Fancied Star Growing Growing Up Play
The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song. Gene Clark
Song Writing Contrive Form Realisation Actual
Sometimes I think my writing sounds like I walked out of the room and left the typewriter running. Gene Fowler
Writing Sometimes Think Typewriter Out Running Like Sounds Left Walked Room
In particular, with my control team, I demanded the responsibilities to do all of the mission preparation, mission design, the writing of the procedures, the development of the handbooks. Gene Kranz
Writing Control Preparation Design Responsibilities Development Demanded Particular Mission Procedures Team
We're afraid of writing characters different from ourselves because we're afraid of getting it wrong. We're afraid of what the Internet might say. Gene Luen Yang
Writing Internet Say Ourselves Characters Wrong Because Getting Afraid Different Might
Writing for myself and writing for another artist are two very different experiences. When I handle both the story and the art, I have full control. I can endlessly tweak every word and every line. Gene Luen Yang
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When it comes to the recording and writing, it's still mostly Mickey and I. But now there's this whole live entity that's a whole different thing, and it seems to be where we're gaining the most popularity. Gene Ween
Writing Recording Live Seems Entity Most Mostly Still Mickey Where Different Gaining Whole Different Thing Popularity Now Thing
Whatever simplicity I've achieved in writing, I think I owe most of it to Jean Renoir and Hemingway: simple, declarative sentences. I've read some very good writers, but the sentences were so long that I've forgotten what the point was. Gene Wilder
Good Writing Simple Simplicity Long Whatever Think Some Point Writers Most Read Were Very Owe Achieved Forgotten Sentences Jean Hemingway
Lots of things are hard work, but I think writing, for me, after I started acting at 13 years old. I like writing now much more than I do acting only because, well, partly because the scripts that are offered are junk. Gene Wilder
Work Hard Work Me Writing Old Think More Only Like Well Partly Because Years Lots Offered Than Junk After Scripts Much Acting Hard Now Things Started
My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat were major influences; just the same, you need to understand that many of the writers we have now couldn't load a revolver. Gene Wolfe
Life You Army Experience Writing Be True Every Think Must Life Experience Writer Writers True Feeds Combat Clearly Major Understand Were Same Revolver Just Influences Many Whole Now Load Need
Writing is a recording that you can cut up and reassemble. Sound is something you can cut up and reassemble. Film, video - you know, the main tools of culture - can all be cut up and reassembled. Genesis P-Orridge
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