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Since I believe that a person's philosophical point of view has little meaning if it is not matched by being and action, I found myself willingly wed to an endless series of unpopular causes, experiences which I feel enriched my writing as much as they depleted other aspects of my life.
Howard Fast
Life
Myself
Writing
My Life
Action
Believe
Other
Enriched
Philosophical
Willingly
Unpopular
Wed
Point
Point Of View
Feel
Since
Matched
Causes
Person
Endless
Being
Experiences
Depleted
Which
Little
Meaning
Much
Aspects
View
Series
Found
Sometimes I felt like my columns were like little novels in themselves. But I wasn't writing what I believed. I'm not interested in what I believe.
Howard Jacobson
Writing
Sometimes
Believe
Columns
Like
Felt
Were
Not Interested
Interested
Little
Themselves
Novels
Believed
I think one of the main reasons I write is to do better than ranting. The ranting is the opinion, and the writing is not the opinion. I always say that people's opinions are the worst things about them. The words demand a dignity.
Howard Jacobson
Dignity
People
Writing
Words
Better
Think
Say
Worst
About
Write
Main
Demand
Opinion
Always
Opinions
Than
Them
Reasons
Things
On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people.
Hu Shih
People
Writing
Language
Resolved
All My Friends
Classical
Poems
More
Poetry
Write
Announced
Vulgar
July
Friends
Begin
America
So-Called
Experiments
Now
Tongue
I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book. But the awful truth is that I... probably can't!
Hugh Grant
Truth
Creative
Truth Is
Book
Writing
Something
More
Could
Like
Cling
Done
Script
Fantasy
Actually
Awful
There's almost a Rorschach-test quality about writing about 'Playboy'. What comes out in the press is not so much about me as it is about society.
Hugh Hefner
Me
Quality
Writing
Society
Press
Out
About
Almost
Much
Playboy
I'm such a huge fan of fan fiction, to me it's a great way for readers to become writers. It's like putting the training wheels on for writing.
Hugh Howey
Great
Me
Writing
Training
Become
Way
Writers
Putting
Like
Great Way
Readers
Huge
Huge Fan
Wheels
Fiction
Fan
My approach with social media is to interact with the readers I already have. I do it mostly to procrastinate from my writing. It's an escape. It's the only socializing I get outside of my wife, and she gets sick of me.
Hugh Howey
Me
Writing
Social Media
Wife
Sick
Approach
Only
Outside
She
Mostly
Readers
Escape
Get
Gets
Interact
Procrastinate
Social
Media
Socializing
I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children.
Hugh Lofting
Writing
Claim
Make
Authority
Children
Illustrating
If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.
Hugh Prather
Writing
Must
Write
Accompanied
Then
Actual
Desire
I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stuff! I started writing and doing my own thing. I didn't really know what a demo was or anything like that, so I started getting interested in studio gear and started learning about one instrument at a time. My first instrument was an accordion.
Hunter Hayes
Time
Learning
Writing
First
Own
Say
Gear
About
My Own
Studio
Stuff
Like
Demo
Know
Instrument
Around
Making
Doing
Making Up
Up
Accordion
Getting
Just
Anything
Interested
Really
Thing
Started
The music is super fun. I love writing the songs. I love performing, for the most part, and I love doing artwork, but I hate answering 100 emails a day and most interviews.
Hunx
Love
Music
Day
Hate
Writing
Interviews
Emails
Super
Songs
Part
Performing
Most
Answering
Doing
Artwork
Fun
I love writing and can't imagine not being able to do it. I want an easy life and if it had been difficult I wouldn't be doing it. I do admire writers who do it even though it costs them.
Iain Banks
Life
Love
Writing
Difficult
Though
Easy
Admire
Able
Costs
Writers
Had
Doing
Been
Being
Want
Them
Who
Even
Imagine
I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.
Iain Banks
Book
Writing
Out
Accidentally
Get
Trying
Just
Story
Might
Themes
Really
Phenomena
You get so caught up in what you're writing - action sequences tend to do that more than anything else because you're living it, and feeling for your characters.
Iain Banks
You
Writing
Feeling
Action
Living
Else
Characters
More
More Than Anything
Tend
Because
Caught
Up
Than
Get
Anything
Anything Else
Your
I spent the summer of '88 indoors, writing 'Shoot You Down,' 'Bye Bye Badman,' and 'Don't Stop.'
Ian Brown
You
Writing
Down
Summer
Spent
Indoors
Shoot
Stop
Bye
We wrote 'Stellify' for Rihanna, but as we got to the end of writing it, I thought, 'You know what? I'm gonna keep this for myself. We'll give her another one.' She'd have probably sung it better, but it is too good for me not to do it.
Ian Brown
Myself
Good
Me
You
Writing
Better
Thought
Too
Sung
Rihanna
Give
Know
Wrote
She
Another
Got
End
Gonna
Keep
Her
I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.
Ian Frazier
Me
Book
Writing
Own
Books
Would
Superficial
Russian
Write
Take
Genre
Read
Forever
Wanted
Last
Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
Ian Frazier
Funny
Me
You
Writing
Wait
Humor
Else
Say
Someone
Something
More
Like
Piece
Does
Watch
When I'm writing with Tony Iommi, for example, still it's very easy. We go in, and I know exactly what his style is. It's very distinctive, and you know exactly what he's looking for, and we know exactly where we're going from the first chord.
Ian Gillan
You
Writing
Example
First
Looking
Style
Distinctive
Easy
Exactly
Exactly What
He
For Example
Know
Still
Go
His
Very
Going
Where
Chord
Tony
One of my greatest pleasures is writing on my Web site.
Ian Gillan
Writing
Pleasures
Web
Web Site
Greatest
Site
Antonio Damasio is a distinguished neuroscientist with a flair for writing about science and an enthusiasm for philosophizing.
Ian Hacking
Science
Writing
Enthusiasm
Distinguished
About
Flair
I'm quite good at not writing.
Ian Mcewan
Good
Writing
Quite
It's good to get your hands dirty a bit and to test how you see things at a given point. And it's very pleasing after writing something like 'Atonement' or 'On Chesil Beach,' which are historical, to get involved in some plausible re-enactment of the here and now.
Ian Mcewan
Good
You
Writing
Pleasing
Bit
See
Some
Beach
Something
Atonement
Given
Point
Dirty
Like
Involved
How
Test
Historical
Very
Get
Hands
After
Which
Your
Now
Plausible
Things
Here
The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject.
Ian Mcewan
Best
Change
People
Writing
Way
Tell
Best Way
About
Vast
Through
Outstanding
Non-Fiction
Climate
Climate Change
Subject
Literature
I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm reserved. I'm self-contained. I get all my adventures in my head when I'm writing my books.
Ian Rankin
Writing
Books
Head
Self-Contained
Adventures
Because
Friends
Get
Many
Reserved
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