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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
Jack Germond
Quality
Writing
Second-Rate
Spending
About
Know
Gore
How
George
Odious
George W
Campaign
George W. Bush
Up
Get
Candidates
Just
Explain
Granddaughter
Bush
Really
Whole
Al
Found
Al Gore
Thing
Before I even knew what that half of my family did, I was interested in performing. I remember being seven years old and up on a stage and loving it. I've always adored it. Not just acting, but the whole process of writing and directing movies, everything that has to do with that part of life. Maybe it's in my blood.
Jack Huston
Life
Family
Writing
Remember
Old
Half
Before
Stage
Seven
Everything
Directing
Adored
Part
Knew
Performing
Always
Years
Blood
Up
Did
Maybe
Just
Being
Process
Interested
Loving
Movies
Acting
Whole
Even
I've tried to quit writing several times, but I enjoy it too much.
Jack McDevitt
Writing
Too Much
Enjoy
Too
Several
Tried
Times
Quit
Much
When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.
Jack Prelutsky
Writing
Own
Other
My Own
Voice
Poets
Until
Read
Began
Any
Children
Influenced
Want
Them
Found
Now
I'm a constant idiot in conversation - I always seem to sound either smug or stupid. Writing plays was a way of winning the conversation by controlling the conversation.
Jack Thorne
Conversation
Writing
Stupid
Idiot
Controlling
Way
Constant
Seem
Winning
Always
Sound
Smug
Either
Plays
I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell.
Jack Vance
Writing
Seemed
Since
Like
Wrote
Felt
Sell
Just
I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
Jack Vance
Book
Writing
Too Much
Too
Call
Got
Material
Done
Far
Realized
Much
Suddenly
Ports
But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.
Jack Vance
Me
Writing
Slow
Find
Computer
Computers
Blind
Terribly
Because
Just
Hard
Speaks
Using
I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.
Jack Whitehall
Love
Writing
Focus
Think
Write
Idea
Want
Film
Right
Need
Right Idea
I like writing my own material - I'm pretty good at it.
Jackee Harry
Good
Writing
Own
Pretty
Pretty Good
My Own
Like
Material
I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.
Jackie Collins
Writing
Research
Believe
About
Like
Know
Reader
Order
Anything
Places
Personally
Transport
Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that.
Jackie Collins
Life
You
Writing
First
Style
Think
Rule
About
Write
Know
Done
Your
Copy
There was a lot of great writing couples, but I try to do it all myself. And it was practically impossible, but I still managed to be ahead of my time.
Jackie DeShannon
Time
Myself
Great
Writing
Impossible
Try
My Time
Couples
Practically
Still
Lot
I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!
Jackie Evancho
Sad
Happy
Writing
Too
About
Write
Songs
Sad Things
Like
Because
Heartbreak
Things
I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
Jackson Browne
Writing
Own
Extra
Add
Some
About
My Own
Songs
Written
Sing
Learned
Led
Verse
Verses
Friend
Just
Many
That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.
Jackson Browne
Music
Time
You
Business
Learning
Song
Writing
Every
Every Time
Music Business
Out
Folk
Folk Music
Part
Most
Because
Making
Led
Up
Get
Gets
Turns
Paid
Lucrative
Play
Things
Played
I need all of my songs while I'm writing them, because I need to get the stuff out of my body and out of my brain. I write out of necessity, not because I want to be a pop star.
Jacob Anderson
Writing
Out
Write
Songs
Stuff
Because
Brain
Get
Want
While
Them
Pop
Body
Pop Star
Star
Necessity
Need
Writing that's native to the web is different in ways that are crucial but subtle enough that you can miss them if you conceive of your audience as reading a printed product.
Jacob Weisberg
You
Writing
Reading
Enough
Ways
Web
Crucial
Miss
Conceive
Printed
Audience
Native
Different
Subtle
Them
Product
Your
When I started really writing fantasy, one of the things I noticed was a real absence of sexuality in the genre at all. And it's such a profound part of the human experience that it's a really big thing to leave out.
Jacqueline Carey
Experience
Writing
Big
Out
One Of The Things
Sexuality
Absence
Part
Genre
Real
Leave
Human
Big Thing
Human Experience
Fantasy
Really
Noticed
Thing
Things
Profound
Started
Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera.
Jacqueline Novogratz
Writing
Philanthropy
About
Check
Longer
Opera
My writing is inspired by where I come from, where I am today, and where I hope to go some day.
Jacqueline Woodson
Today
Hope
Day
Writing
Some
Inspired
Come
Am
Go
Where
When I'm feeling frustrated with a story, I have faith that it's going to come. Also, when I first started writing, I wanted to write the stories that were not in my childhood, to represent people who hadn't historically been represented in literature.
Jacqueline Woodson
Faith
People
Writing
First
Feeling
Write
Come
Also
Were
Been
Historically
Going
Represent
Childhood
Wanted
Stories
Story
Literature
Frustrated
Who
Started
I love the physical act of writing as well as how I grow which each situation I put on the page.
Jacqueline Woodson
Love
Writing
Situation
Physical
Put
Well
How
Which
Page
Act
Each
Grow
I love playing with form. I love playing with sounds... I love music, and I love writing that has a musicality to it.
Jacqueline Woodson
Love
Music
Writing
Musicality
Sounds
Form
Playing
In writing 'Another Brooklyn,' I had to imagine what happens when friendships dissolve.
Jacqueline Woodson
Writing
Dissolve
Brooklyn
Had
Another
Friendships
Happens
Imagine
With my writing, I try to do stuff I have not done before. Each time I sit down, I want to have a new experience, and by extension, I want my readers to have a different experience.
Jacqueline Woodson
Time
Experience
Writing
Try
Before
Sit
Down
Stuff
New
Readers
Done
Different
Want
Each
Each Time
Extension
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