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Young adult author Richelle Mead holds the distinction to perhaps be the only author ever to have a book banned... before it was even written.
Andrew Shaffer
Book
Before
Young
Distinction
Only
Adult
Written
Perhaps
Author
Young Adult
Banned
Holds
Even
Ever
Language also encodes our past. We want to know who we are. To know who we are, we have to know who we used to be. Consequently, our literature, written in the past, anchors us in that past.
Andrzej Wajda
Language
Past
Our
Anchors
Written
Know
Also
Want
In The Past
Literature
Us
Used
Who
Consequently
People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with 'welcome' written on it.
Andy Partridge
Welcome
People
Will
Tempted
Wipe
Written
Feet
Always
Anything
I don't see a difference between playing a performance capture role and a live action role, they're just characters to me at the end of the day and I'm an actor who wants to explore those characters in fantastically written scripts. The only caveat is a good story is a good character.
Andy Serkis
Good
Day
Character
Me
End Of The Day
Action
Live
Those
Characters
See
Only
Good Story
Written
Performance
Between
End
Role
Just
Difference
Wants
Story
Scripts
Explore
Good Character
Who
Live Action
Capture
Actor
Playing
I'm sure that the meaning of the songs that I've written will change for me over the years, the same way that I can't even say what inspired some of the songs that I've been singing for a long time anymore.
Angel Olsen
Time
Me
Change
Will
Long
Long Time
Singing
Way
Say
Some
Inspired
Songs
Written
Over
Sure
Been
Years
Same
Anymore
Meaning
Meaning Of
Even
It can be very frustrating and very deflating to be constantly defined and described by other people, so I've stopped reading anything written about me, and I find it much healthier. I just sort of concentrate on what I do and don't worry too much about that.
Ani DiFranco
Me
People
Too Much
Reading
Too
Other
Worry
Defined
Find
Constantly
About
Written
Concentrate
Sort
Healthier
Very
Just
Stopped
Anything
Frustrating
Much
In 2007, I sold my first book, 'Grimspace.' It says it's SF on the spine. I believe it to be SF, though it's certainly written differently. I write in first person, present tense, and the protagonist is a woman with a woman's thoughts, feelings, and sexual desires.
Ann Aguirre
Thoughts
Woman
Book
First
Feelings
Believe
Sold
Says
Though
Sexual
Spine
Write
Written
Tense
Protagonist
First-Person
Person
Certainly
Differently
Present
Present Tense
Desires
I am the woman with the cool vintage glasses... I am the proud wife beside her husband... I am the writer who has written a new novel.
Ann Hood
Woman
Glasses
Wife
Husband
Beside
Writer
Written
New
Proud
Am
Who
Cool
Novel
Her
Vintage
One day, I discovered that a couple of people had written 'fanfic' - stories of their own based on my characters. Just the thought of people thinking that hard and deeply about something I've written is incredible.
Ann Leckie
Day
People
Thought
Own
Thinking
Incredible
One Day
Characters
About
Something
Had
Written
Couple
Discovered
Just
Stories
Hard
Based
Deeply
I've never written a character that wasn't burdened by years of pain and trauma. Let's face it: Most comic-book heroes have some serious baggage. Not Green Arrow. He's a healthy guy - imagine that? Carrying your hero around in your head, imagining the world through his eyes, is just a hoot.
Ann Nocenti
Character
Eyes
World
Hero
Heroes
Face
Healthy
Pain
Hoot
Carrying
Some
Guy
Through
Never
He
Written
Head
Baggage
Most
Around
His
Years
Arrow
Green
Burdened
Just
Your
Trauma
Serious
Imagine
Imagining
I actually have a peculiar feminism that does not involve the idea that women shouldn't be sexy. Female characters written in comics have always been pretty damned sexy, and used their sexuality. And I don't have any problem with that.
Ann Nocenti
Women
Problem
Feminism
Characters
Sexuality
Sexy
Pretty
Written
Idea
Involve
Female
Does
Always
Female Characters
Comics
Been
Any
Used
Actually
Peculiar
I want Green Arrow to have fun. I don't want him to be a tortured hero. I mean, I've written plenty of tortured heroes, like Daredevil. But it's all there in Daredevil's origin as to why he'd be a tortured adult. Green Arrow doesn't have that kind of origin. In fact, he's such a clean slate that he doesn't even have an origin anymore.
Ann Nocenti
Have Fun
Hero
Heroes
Plenty
Daredevil
Kind
Tortured
Fact
Clean
Adult
He
Written
Like
Him
Arrow
Green
In Fact
Want
Anymore
Mean
Fun
Origin
Even
Why
Slate
Back when we were first making records, you didn't just make the music, you put a great deal of energy into the way it looked, and every word that was written on the whole thing.
Ann Wilson
Music
Great
You
Word
Great Deal
First
Energy
Every
Back
Way
Records
Written
Put
Looked
Make
Deal
Making
Were
Just
Whole
Thing
It's wonderful to return to 'Peaky Blinders.' We're all here for the right reasons - to work and do justice to what's written on the page.
Annabelle Wallis
Work
Justice
Wonderful
Right Reasons
Written
Return
Blinders
Page
Reasons
Right
Here
Max Brooks' novel 'World War Z' is one of the greatest zombie stories ever written, partly for reasons that make it basically unfilmable.
Annalee Newitz
War
World
Brooks
Written
Make
Partly
Greatest
Max
Stories
Reasons
Novel
Ever
Zombie
Basically
World War
Oh, God. Mate, I've written about 800 songs, and that's no exaggeration!
Anne-Marie
God
Exaggeration
About
Songs
Written
Mate
Oh
Oh God
I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.
Anne Lamott
Written
Days
Pieces
Genre
Nonfiction
Six
Really
Novels
Four
I have written my own screen version of Pern, but had no buyers yet.
Anne McCaffrey
Own
My Own
Had
Written
Version
Screen
Buyers
Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.
Anne Rice
Me
Book
Challenge
Become
Every
Meet
Way
Characters
Write
Consumed
Written
Obsession
Been
Led
Theme
Ever
Desire
Much has been written about the life of the mind.
Annie Dillard
Life
Mind
Has-Been
About
Written
Been
Much
I'm a natural clown, I suppose, in writing, and one has to accept that; I can't do anything about it. I have written one or two novels which are not specifically funny. I wrote a study of Shakespeare which was not intended to be funny, but some people regard it as such.
Anthony Burgess
Funny
Natural
People
Writing
Some People
Clown
One Or Two
Some
About
Shakespeare
Written
Study
Suppose
Wrote
Accept
Intended
Regard
Anything
Which
Novels
Specifically
Two
I read all of the nonfiction that I could find on Chechnya, and all the while, I was searching for a novel that was set there. I couldn't find a single novel written in English that was set in the period of the two most recent Chechen wars.
Anthony Marra
Single
Find
Could
Written
Chechnya
Most
Period
Read
Nonfiction
While
English
Wars
Novel
Searching
Recent
Two
Set
I wanted to be a writer, but at the time, I spent my days working a retail job, my nights sleeping in my childhood bedroom, and while I had written short stories here and there, I didn't know how to write good fiction anymore than I knew how to perform good brain surgery.
Anthony Marra
Time
Good
Job
Nights
Sleeping
Spent
Write
Retail
Writer
Had
Written
Knew
Perform
Days
Know
How
Bedroom
Surgery
Brain
Brain Surgery
Than
Childhood
Short
Anymore
Fiction
Wanted
Stories
Short Stories
While
Working
Here
During the 20th century, Chechnya was written about by local poets and novelists, as well as writers from Russia and Central Asia, but very little is available in English translation.
Anthony Marra
Translation
Local
About
Russia
Poets
Writers
Written
Chechnya
Well
Very
Central
Available
Little
Asia
Century
English
Novelists
Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.
Antonin Artaud
Worth
Reading
Others
Once
Way
Destroyed
Worth Reading
Poetry
Poets
Written
Dead
Make
Then
Should
I mean, the Constitution of this country was written 200 years ago. The house I was living in in Madrid is 350 years old! America is still a project, and you guys are working on it and bringing new things to it every day. That is beautiful to watch.
Antonio Banderas
Beautiful
Day
You
Constitution
Every Day
Old
Country
New Things
Living
Every
Project
Madrid
Guys
Written
New
House
Still
Years
Years Ago
America
You Guys
Mean
Working
Things
Watch
Bringing
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