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Generally, if you preface an interview request with, 'I'm an author writing a book,' for some reason, that seems to open a lot of doors.
James Rollins
You
Book
Writing
Doors
Interview
Some
Seems
Generally
Open
Lot
Author
Request
Reason
I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian before I sold my first book, and I still volunteer my time to help with animal welfare causes. So that is a career I would be happy to return to - while still secretly writing strange stories back in my doctor's office.
James Rollins
Time
Be Happy
Happy
Strange
Animal
Book
Writing
Doctor
Welfare
First
Before
Think
Back
Sold
Secretly
Would
Would-Be
My Time
Could
Volunteer
Also
Wrote
Return
Said
Still
Causes
Years
Office
Veterinarian
Stop
Stories
While
Help
Ever
Published
Career
I find the most difficult part of writing is to get it down initially because what you have written is usually so terrible that it's disheartening; you don't want to go on. That's what I think is hard - the discouragement that comes from seeing what you have done.
James Salter
You
Writing
Down
Difficult
Think
Find
Seeing
Part
Written
Most
Terrible
Because
Go
Discouragement
Get
Done
Want
Disheartening
Hard
Initially
I wasted time writing films. I don't look back on those years as lost, but it wasn't what I should have been doing.
James Salter
Time
Writing
Lost
Films
Back
Those
Look
Doing
Been
Years
Should
Wasted
Wasted Time
I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.
James Salter
Great
Writing
Knew
Great Thing
Always
Novel
Thing
The publishers, as I remember at the very beginning of my career, wrote letters with their fountain pens. A letter is different from a phone call or fax. It's a different kind of intimacy. That pervaded the entire business of writing and publishing.
James Salter
Business
Writing
Phone
Remember
Beginning
Intimacy
Phone Call
Kind
Pens
Fax
Entire
Wrote
Call
Very
Different
Different Kind
Letter
Letters
Publishers
Publishing
Fountain
Career
I have said many times I don't want to be considered one who once flew fighters. That's not who I am. I devoted the subsequent 50 years - more - to writing.
James Salter
Writing
Once
Considered
More
Devoted
Said
Am
Years
Times
Subsequent
Want
Flew
Fighters
Who
Many
My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you can make no further progress and you either have something or you don't.
James Salter
You
Writing
Words
Progress
Further
Right Words
Find
Somehow
Something
Point
Idea
Reach
Until
Make
Effort
Trying
Where
Either
Right
If you read a book about school - someone else's book - you always translate it into your own school experiences. It's describing the student: he's bewildered and lost in a large crowd in a university classroom. You'll visualize that from your own experiences. So, everything you know is what you're really writing.
James Salter
You
Book
Writing
School
Lost
Own
Else
Everything
Visualize
About
Someone
Classroom
Crowd
Student
He
Bewildered
Know
Read
Always
Experiences
Translate
Really
Your
Large
Describing
University
You know when you're writing, and it's just you and the computer screen, and you never think that anyone is ever going to read it... you're able to say private things when you're writing.
James St. James
You
Writing
Think
Say
Able
Computer
Computer Screen
Never
Know
Read
Private
Going
Just
Screen
Anyone
Ever
Things
On the simplest level, telecommuting makes it harder for people to have the kinds of informal interactions that are crucial to the way knowledge moves through an organization. The role that hallway chat plays in driving new ideas has become a cliche of business writing, but that doesn't make it less true.
James Surowiecki
Knowledge
Business
People
Writing
Organization
Become
Way
Kinds
Through
Chat
Crucial
Simplest
Driving
True
New
Ideas
Make
Cliche
Makes
Hallway
New Ideas
Role
Moves
Interactions
Informal
Less
Harder
Level
Plays
I was just sitting on my bed in a dormitory room, and I started writing. The thing that was magic about it was that once you put down one word, you could cross it out. I figured that out right away. I put down 'mountain,' and then I'd go, 'No - 'valley.' That's better.'
James Tate
You
Writing
Better
Word
Down
Valley
Once
Out
One Word
Magic
About
Cross
Could
Put
Bed
Go
Mountain
Sitting
Just
Room
Then
Figured
Away
Right
Thing
Right Away
Started
I've done well because I'm lucky and I'm willing to be collaborative with the one thing you don't want to be collaborative with: your writing.
James Vanderbilt
You
Writing
Collaborative
Willing
One Thing
Well
Because
Done
The One Thing
Want
Your
Lucky
Thing
I do bits about dating but mainly about what I did and how incompetent I am, not any genuine people writing to me.
James Veitch
Me
People
Writing
Bits
About
Dating
Mainly
Genuine
How
Am
Did
Any
Incompetent
Since I'm a fan of collections and anthologies, believe that the best writing often shines in shards and galloping stretches, I never find myself lobbying for a writer I enjoy reading regularly to hole up in Heidegger's hut for four or five years to bring forth a mountain.
James Wolcott
Best
Myself
Writing
Reading
Believe
Enjoy
Lobbying
Collections
Find
Hut
Writer
Never
Since
Years
Shines
Up
Five
Mountain
Often
Fan
Hole
Forth
Galloping
Regularly
Enjoy Reading
Four
Bring
As an actor, you're tied to the writing. You live and die by what's written for you. And you can elevate that to a certain extent, but really, that's your blueprint.
James Wolk
You
Writing
Live
Written
Tied
Die
Blueprint
Really
Certain
Certain Extent
Your
Actor
Elevate
Extent
I really look forward to putting on a record. I love writing music and think that may be my strong suit even more than singing. I can't wait to take that music on tour and share it with as many people as I can.
James Wolpert
Love
Music
People
Writing
Strong
Wait
Singing
Think
Record
Strong Suit
More
Take
Tour
Share
Putting
Look
Than
May
Really
Forward
Many
Even
Suit
No matter how much money I made from writing, I'd keep the bookstore job.
Jami Attenberg
Writing
Money
Matter
Job
Made
Bookstore
How
How Much
How Much Money
Much
Keep
I'm not really interested in writing or reading about people who are nice and easy. I like the problem children.
Jami Attenberg
People
Writing
Problem
Reading
Nice
Easy
About
Like
Children
Interested
Really
Who
I don't think there's any topic a writer should feel afraid of tackling just because it has already been discussed. If you feel you have a fresh perspective and an understanding of a certain emotional truth, it's always worth writing.
Jami Attenberg
Truth
You
Writing
Worth
Perspective
Understanding
Think
Topic
Tackling
Emotional
Writer
Emotional Truth
Feel
Because
Fresh
Always
Been
Discussed
Any
Just
Afraid
Just Because
Certain
Should
That has been my outlet and a way to provide for my child - writing songs for myself and for other artists.
Jamie Lynn Spears
Myself
Writing
Other
Way
Has-Been
Outlet
Songs
Been
Provide
Child
Artists
When I started writing poetry, it was always in very hip-hop influenced spaces: Someone would teach a Nas song side-by-side with a Gwendolyn Brooks poem, and we'd talk about the connections between those things.
Jamila Woods
Song
Writing
Those
Would
Brooks
About
Someone
Poem
Poetry
Between
Talk
Always
Hip-Hop
Very
Influenced
Spaces
Teach
Connections
Things
Started
I have a hard time writing, and I usually have to put a timer at my desk and put it on for an hour. But I love to illustrate, and I can hardly stop myself.
Jan Brett
Love
Time
Myself
Writing
Put
Hour
Timer
Stop
Hard
Hard Time
Illustrate
Hardly
Desk
Let me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love.
Jan Karon
Life
Love
Me
Book
Writing
Say
About
Absolutely
Because
Common
Loved
My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.
Jan Karon
Food
Writing
First
Hungry
Because
Were
References
Bare
Novel
Largely
Loaded
Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.
Jan Karon
Healing
Writing
Our
Way
Our Lives
Processing
Lives
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