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When I'm writing, I won't know whodunnit until maybe two thirds of the way through. Until then, I know as little as my detective. I just make it up as I go along. It's nerve-wracking, actually. You'll be half through and not know your conclusion. You worry one of these days the ending won't come. I'll be left with only two-thirds of a novel.
Ian Rankin
You
Writing
Ending
Half
Worry
Way
Detective
Only
Through
Along
Days
Come
Know
Until
Make
Conclusion
Go
Left
Up
Maybe
Just
Little
Then
Your
Novel
Actually
Two
Two-Thirds
I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about.
Ice T
Music
Me
Writing
Better
First
Lock
Out
About
Could
Beat
Put
Like
Talk
Track
Tracks
Heard
Lot
Up
Get
Rhymes
Then
Figured
Started
I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not stand in my way... Let me be food for the wild beasts, for they are my way to God.
Ignatius of Antioch
God
Food
Me
You
Writing
Will
Wild
Way
Churches
Only
Beasts
Gladly
Known
Am
Die
Stand
I want to be an animated character. I'm also doing more writing and directing.
Illeana Douglas
Character
Writing
Directing
More
Animated
Also
Doing
Want
I've started spending more of my time studying, trying to improve my IQ by reading and writing. I've missed out on a lot in life. I don't regret this, of course. Nevertheless, I need to make up for lost time.
Ilya Ilyin
Life
Time
Writing
Regret
Reading
Lost
Spending
Out
More
My Time
Studying
Missed
Nevertheless
Make
Course
Make Up
Lot
Up
Improve
Trying
Started
Need
When I'm writing, I mean what I'm saying - there's a lot of me in each song.
Imelda May
Saying
Me
Song
Writing
Lot
Mean
Each
I've always liked new writing.
Imelda Staunton
Writing
New
Liked
Always
I feel like I've grown up a bit. I'm a bit more confident, and I've been reading more, and I've had a little more time to myself. I went on this writing trip to gather my thoughts about where and who I am in this world, and why we're all here.
Imogen Heap
Time
Myself
Thoughts
Writing
World
Reading
Bit
Trip
About
More
Had
Feel
Like
Am
Been
Up
Confident
Where
Little
Who
Grown
Why
Grown-Up
Here
Gather
Writing changed my life. It has an existential dimension, and that's the same for every writer. Every artist has a moment of awakening, of happening upon an idea that grabs hold of you, regardless of whether you are a painter or a writer.
Imre Kertesz
Life
You
Writing
My Life
Every
Changed
Dimension
Writer
Idea
Existential
Same
Artist
Hold
Happening
Regardless
Whether
Moment
Painter
Awakening
When it comes down to the song writing, I'm just very slow - very slow. Because the songs are about my life, so I'm doing emotional work on myself.
India Arie
Life
Work
Myself
Song
Writing
Slow
My Life
Down
About
Emotional
Song Writing
Songs
Because
Doing
Very
Just
One of the things that helped me to be confident is to be the kind of musician that I respect. I always liked musicians who wrote their own songs, and so I started writing my own songs.
India Arie
Me
Musicians
Respect
Writing
Own
Musician
Kind
One Of The Things
My Own
Songs
Liked
Wrote
Always
Confident
Who
Helped
Things
Started
There's just something creatively fulfilling about watching a movie and writing a song for it because it helps you put on another pair of shoes.
India Arie
You
Song
Writing
Shoes
About
Something
Put
Another
Because
Just
Movie
Just Something
Fulfilling
Helps
Pair
Creatively
Watching
Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.
Ingmar Bergman
Patience
Writing
Boring
Takes
Very
Much
Sometimes it can be difficult for me if Ross writes something inaccurate or hurtful. Ronald Ferguson used to ring me up and say, 'Ingie, Major here! What rubbish has your husband been writing about me now?'
Ingrid Seward
Me
Writing
Sometimes
Husband
Difficult
Rubbish
Say
Ring
Hurtful
About
Something
Writes
Major
Been
Ferguson
Up
Inaccurate
Your
Used
Now
Here
Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.
Ion Tiriac
Me
Writing
About
Tennis
Like
Baker
Baking
Bread
After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting because it was neither journalistic nor historical, but it emphasized writing style, and afterwards I was asked to write my first book.
Iris Chang
Book
Writing
Journalist
First
Style
Neither
Hopkins
Write
Writing Style
Emphasized
Journalistic
Because
Nor
Historical
After
Afterwards
Interesting
Asked
Working
Program
The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.
Iris Johansen
Good
Character
Writing
Thinking
Out
Plot
Compliment
About
Given
Writer
Points
Miss
Reader
Deal
Greatest
Caught
Up
Hold
Story
Working
Good Deal
Sleep
Mystery writing involves solving a puzzle, but 'high suspense' writing is a situation whereby the writer thrusts the hero/heroine into high drama.
Iris Johansen
Writing
Situation
Drama
High
Solving
Mystery
Writer
Puzzle
Involves
Suspense
Whereby
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
Iris Murdoch
Writing
Luck
Married
Oneself
Never
Like
Until
Amazed
Commit
Getting
Getting Married
Should
I always wanted to be a writer. Maybe, had I been brought up in another generation, I might have just gone into writing rather than medicine - which is not to say that I didn't also have a great attraction towards the idea of being a healer. Fortunately, I've been able to combine the two in ways I could never possibly have imagined.
Irvin D. Yalom
Great
Generation
Writing
Gone
Medicine
Say
Ways
Possibly
Able
Brought
Rather
Could
Writer
Never
Had
Idea
Towards
Combine
Also
Attraction
Healer
Another
Always
Been
Up
Than
Maybe
Just
Being
Wanted
Which
Might
Fortunately
Two
Imagined
With almost every book I've written, my secret target audience is the young therapist. In this way, I am staying in my professorial role; I'm writing teaching stories and teaching novels.
Irvin D. Yalom
Book
Writing
Young
Every
Secret
Way
Staying
Written
Almost
Audience
Am
Target
Role
Stories
Teaching
Therapist
Novels
When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.
Irvine Welsh
Religion
History
Science
Writing
Reading
Lately
Philosophy
Constantly
Studies
Read
Nonfiction
Been
Cultural
Lot
Quite
Fiction
Social
Loads
I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.
Irvine Welsh
You
Business
Writing
First
Young
Research
Think
Other
Find
Degrees
About
Writers
Learn
Because
Sciences
Lot
Get
Trying
Arts
Graduation
Information
Social
Young Writers
Should
Skills
Social Sciences
Even
Necessity
Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.
Irvine Welsh
Culture
Writing
Everything
About
Makes
Should
You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't actually exist, which is just madness.
Irvine Welsh
Time
You
Book
People
Writing
Madness
Own
Spending
Exist
Just
Fiction
Which
While
Your
Who
Actually
If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.
Irwin Shaw
Time
You
Writing
Young
Enough
Apprenticeship
Kind
Marvelous
Period
Any
Short
Short Period
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