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I just play music by listening and responding, so I don't know anything about writing songs or arranging and all of this stuff. You know, it's in my head, but I don't know how to get it out.
Jaimoe
Music
You
Writing
Listening
Responding
Out
About
Songs
Head
Stuff
Know
How
Arranging
Get
Just
Anything
Play
Play Music
I've always loved to write, and I wrote fiction all my life. That's what I thought I was going to do in my life - until I started writing songs.
Jake Shears
Life
Writing
Thought
My Life
All My Life
Write
Songs
Until
Wrote
Always
Going
Fiction
Loved
Started
'The Glass Menagerie' by Tennessee Williams is a great play. I had to read it for school when I was younger, but I started writing scripts after that. That's what got me into writing.
Jake T. Austin
Great
Me
Writing
School
Williams
Tennessee
Tennessee Williams
Had
Glass
Read
Got
After
Scripts
Younger
Play
Started
When you write fiction, there were things about Washington that I've experienced and wanted to write about, including the swamping nature of it, the compromises people come to town and are forced to make, and also, when writing about Joe McCarthy, the indecency and lies that he put forward that people didn't take a stand about.
Jake Tapper
Nature
You
People
Writing
Joe
Lies
About
Compromises
Write
Take
He
Put
Town
Come
Also
Make
Forced
Were
Experienced
Fiction
Wanted
McCarthy
Stand
Forward
Including
Washington
Things
When you're in the middle of writing a song, you can come up with this whole web of stuff only you know how to get through. That's very entertaining for me to do that.
Jakob Dylan
Me
You
Song
Writing
Entertaining
Web
Only
Through
Stuff
Come
Know
How
Up
Very
Get
Middle
Whole
Writing is still on my slate.
Jaleel White
Writing
Still
Slate
For me, writing isn't a way of being public or private; it's just a way of being. The process is always full of pain, but I like that. It's a reality, and I just accept it as something not to be avoided.
Jamaica Kincaid
Me
Reality
Writing
Pain
Way
Something
Like
Accept
Always
Private
Just
Being
Process
Public
Full
Avoided
I think in many ways the problem that my writing would have with an American reviewer is that Americans find difficulty very hard to take. They are inevitably looking for a happy ending.
Jamaica Kincaid
Happy
Writing
Problem
Ending
Looking
Think
Difficulty
Ways
Would
Find
Take
Inevitably
Reviewer
Very
American
Happy Ending
Hard
Many
I often get attacked in Saudi Arabia, but the critics don't ridicule my ideas. There were about 30 or 40 articles attacking me in the Saudi press. Not a single one debated something I wrote. They just ridiculed me as a person. They see me as a traitor who is writing in the foreign press. But discuss what I am writing? They will not.
Jamal Khashoggi
Me
Writing
Will
Single
Press
Arabia
Critics
See
About
Something
Attacked
Attacking
Ideas
Wrote
Am
Foreign
Were
Debated
Discuss
Articles
Person
Get
Traitor
Often
Just
Who
Ridicule
Ridiculed
Saudi
Saudi Arabia
I'm just a guy up on a hill writing.
James A. Michener
Writing
Guy
Hill
Up
Just
I was a Navy officer writing about Navy problems and I simply stole this lovely Army nurse and popped her into a Navy uniform, where she has done very well for herself.
James A. Michener
Army
Writing
Problems
Nurse
Herself
About
Simply
She
Well
Very
Officer
Stole
Done
Where
Lovely
Uniform
Navy
Her
I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody else does is of no concern whatever except as an interesting variation.
James A. Michener
You
Writing
Somebody
Whatever
Think
Else
Find
Variation
Except
Crucial
Concern
Does
How
Fit
Want
Interesting
Thing
Career
Long before I fell in love with writing, I fell in love with reading. Sometimes, honestly, I feel like I'm cheating on my first love when I settle into my office chair to start work on the latest manuscript.
James A. Moore
Work
Love
Writing
Sometimes
Long
Cheating
First
Reading
Before
Honestly
Settle
Latest
Feel
Like
Fell
First Love
Office
Manuscript
Chair
Start
And that, ladies and gentlemen, sums up the Fringe. Spend a year spitting your guts out writing a show, and people forget your name as soon as they walk out.
James Acaster
People
Writing
Walk
Year
Spend
Sums
Out
Guts
Spitting
Soon
Name
Gentlemen
Up
Fringe
Forget
Ladies
Your
Show
When I'm writing, I need to amplify my thoughts and feelings on just a conversation that I might have had with somebody - somebody close to me. It's often the case that the people closest to me are the people on my mind the most.
James Bay
Me
Thoughts
Conversation
People
Writing
Mind
Somebody
Feelings
Case
Had
Most
Close
Closest
Often
Just
Might
Amplify
Need
No author's writing more influenced my own than that of Robert Louis Stevenson. My first steampunk story, 'The Ape-box Affair,' is a sort of melange of Stevenson and P.G. Wodehouse.
James Blaylock
Writing
First
Own
My Own
More
Robert
Stevenson
Sort
Affair
Louis
Than
Author
Influenced
Story
I wrote 'Zeuglodon' on a whim. I found myself writing the voice of an 11-year-old girl. I don't know why.
James Blaylock
Myself
Writing
Girl
Voice
Know
Wrote
Whim
Found
Why
I don't think I was ever designed to be a ubiquitous worldwide star. I'm a singer-songwriter writing quite personal songs. You're not supposed to chuck me on a stage with bells and whistles. There was a struggle ahead after that happened, and perhaps I was trying to write songs to compete in that arena.
James Blunt
Me
You
Struggle
Writing
Stage
Think
Worldwide
Chuck
Arena
Write
Songs
Supposed
Perhaps
Singer-Songwriter
Trying
Personal
Quite
After
Happened
Star
Ever
Bells
Designed
Bells And Whistles
Compete
Writing a screenplay, for me, is like juggling. It's like, how many balls can you get in the air at once? All those ideas have to float out there to a certain point, and then they'll crystallize into a pattern.
James Cameron
Me
You
Writing
Air
Once
Those
Out
Point
Like
Ideas
Crystallize
How
Juggling
Balls
Get
Screenplay
Pattern
Then
Certain
Certain Point
Many
Float
The first is that instead of writing a sequel, which is what most people do, this is in fact a prequel. Although we didn't know that when we began the process.
James Collins
People
Writing
First
Fact
Instead
Know
Most
Although
Began
In Fact
Process
Which
Sequel
Prequel
Writing can give full meaning to characters and avoid pure stereotype.
James Earl Jones
Writing
Pure
Characters
Give
Stereotype
Meaning
Full
Avoid
I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.
James Ellroy
Writing
Months
Detective
Could
Writer
Take
Am
Off
Afford
Play
Career
In my opinion, it is easier to avoid iambic rhythms, when writing in syllabics, if you create a line or pattern of lines using odd numbers of syllables.
James Fenton
You
Writing
Easier
Opinion
Odd
Line
Lines
In My Opinion
Pattern
Rhythms
Create
Avoid
Using
Syllables
Numbers
In the writing of poetry we never know anything for sure. We will never know if we have 'trained' or 'practised' enough. We will never be able to say that we have reached grade eight, or that we have left the grades behind and are now embarked on an advanced training.
James Fenton
Writing
Training
Will
Enough
Say
Embarked
Able
Poetry
Never
Advanced
Know
Reached
Sure
Left
Trained
Grade
Grades
Behind
Eight
Anything
Now
I acted professionally for about eight years, and I was writing all that time but never showed anybody any of it. There just came a point after those eight years when I thought, 'There's a lot I can do with acting - there are a lot of things I can express and do creatively, but there are also limitations.'
James Franco
Time
Writing
Thought
Those
About
Point
Never
Also
Limitations
Came
Years
Lot
Any
Just
Anybody
Eight
After
Acted
Acting
Express
Creatively
Professionally
Things
I've never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.
James Frey
Writing
Journalist
Some
Never
Had
Sort
Historically
Accurate
Any
Autobiography
Being
Interest
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