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I could not have written a novel if I hadn't been a journalist first, because it taught me that there's no muse that's going to come down and bestow upon you the mood to write. You just have to do it. I'm definitely not precious.
Gillian Flynn
Me
You
Journalist
First
Down
Definitely
Mood
Bestow
Could
Write
Written
Come
Because
Been
Precious
Going
Just
Taught
Novel
Muse
I grew up not having very many girl friends. Girls tend to be competitive. I actually went to the school 'Mean Girls' was written about, so you can only imagine what my high school experience was like!
Gillian Zinser
You
Experience
School
Girl
High
High School
About
Having
Only
Tend
Written
Like
Up
Friends
Very
Grew
Mean
Many
Actually
Competitive
Imagine
I've had two instances when I've met journalists face to face and we've had good interviews and I've said, 'We don't have children, by the way,' and then they've written it. I'm not sure what that's about. As misleading facts go, it's not a terrible one but it isn't true - we don't have kids.
Gina McKee
Good
Face
Met
Interviews
Way
Kids
Face-To-Face
About
Facts
Had
Written
Misleading
True
Journalists
Terrible
Sure
Said
Go
Children
Then
Two
I'm constantly dogged with a feeling of fraudulence, so if somebody tells me they like what I've written, then I immediately begin to think it's rubbish.
Glen Duncan
Me
Somebody
Feeling
Think
Rubbish
Immediately
Tells
Constantly
Written
Like
Dogged
Begin
Then
I hated writing 'Love Warrior.' It's the hardest thing I've every written. I cried.
Glennon Doyle Melton
Love
Writing
Warrior
Every
Cried
Hated
Written
The Hardest Thing
Hardest
Hardest Thing
Thing
The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.
Gloria Vanderbilt
Me
Embarrass
Would
Would-Be
Something
Only
Write
Written
Badly
The Only Thing
Ever
Thing
'Somebody That I Used to Know,' like a lot of the record, was a bit of a struggle to finish. It was written fairly quickly - I wrote it in November 2010 - but it took six months to find Kimbra and really realize she was the right vocalist to make the female part come to life. There were constant hurdles.
Gotye
Life
Struggle
November
Hurdles
Somebody
Took
Months
Bit
Find
Constant
Record
Vocalist
Finish
Part
Written
Come
Like
Know
Wrote
She
Make
Fairly
Female
Were
Lot
Quickly
Six
Realize
Really
Used
Right
We'd love to collaborate with Sam Smith. I've told him. Many times. We've got loads of songs we've written that we can literally just hear his voice on.
Grace Chatto
Love
Collaborate
Voice
Songs
Written
Him
Smith
Got
Hear
His
Times
Sam
Just
Literally
Many
Loads
Applause is interesting, but I'm a monster with or without it. Something is either well written or it isn't. 'White Rabbit' is not well written, and no amount of applause or royalties can convince me it is. I could have done a better job with those lyrics. They didn't say what I wanted.
Grace Slick
Me
Better
Job
White
Monster
Lyrics
Say
Those
Something
Better Job
Could
Written
Well
Without
Well-Written
Done
Wanted
Either
Rabbit
Interesting
Convince
Applause
Amount
Royalties
If pushed, though, I'd say that the next stage will be reached when it it's no longer true that about 75% of the best games were written in 1980's on the way to that.
Graham Nelson
Best
Will
Stage
Way
Say
Though
About
Pushed
Written
True
Longer
Reached
Were
Next
Games
I've written almost 200 songs with Bad Religion. No matter where you look in our history, the focus has been trying to instill some of these disturbing realities about the world, some of the implications of evolution into an artistic format that can be interpreted by people who may never study evolution.
Greg Graffin
Religion
History
You
People
World
Matter
Focus
Our
Evolution
Has-Been
Bad
Some
Disturbing
About
Never
Songs
Written
Almost
Instill
Study
Implications
Look
Been
Trying
May
Artistic
Where
Format
Realities
Who
Interpreted
Sully's' upbeat message is that we still need humans. It was the heroically human Sully who saved those people, not some cold equation written on a chalkboard.
Greg Gutfeld
People
Saved
Cold
Those
Some
Written
Message
Equation
Still
Upbeat
Human
Who
Humans
Need
I have not written a perfect sentence, in the literary sense. It's a lot easier to throw a perfect pass than to write a perfect sentence, if that sentence is meant to perform more than a mechanical function.
Greg Iles
Sense
Easier
More
Perfect
Throw
Write
Written
Perform
Pass
Lot
Than
Literary
Sentence
Meant
Mechanical
Function
To combine telling an interesting story with brilliantly written characters is the most difficult thing to do.
Greg McHugh
Difficult
Characters
Telling
Written
Combine
Most
Most Difficult Thing
Story
Interesting
Thing
Brilliantly
Difficult Thing
The stories that are out and the things that have been published are a sample of my interests. There are genres and sub-genres that I haven't waded into but have wanted to, or have waded into in other places but never actually written.
Greg Rucka
Other
Out
Never
Written
Genres
Been
Sample
Wanted
Stories
Places
Interests
Published
Actually
Things
Some of the best moments I've ever written have come about because someone, somewhere, blew my preconceptions out of the water and dropped a detail in passing that took the work in an entirely new, entirely unexpected, direction.
Greg Rucka
Work
Best
Water
Somewhere
Took
Out
Detail
Some
About
Someone
Entirely
Direction
Written
Dropped
New
Come
Blew
Because
Passing
Unexpected
Preconceptions
Moments
Ever
My goal is to put out an album with every song being an original composition of mine. I want the credits to read, 'All songs written by Gregory L. Allman' - that is something I really want to make happen.
Gregg Allman
Song
Every
Mine
Out
Composition
Something
Songs
Written
Put
Make
Read
Goal
Being
Want
Happen
Really
Original
Credits
Album
But I always held my music up and protected it from compromise. So I just do it for my friends. I've written hundreds of songs, and I'm sure I have a few albums worth of songs.
Gregory Harrison
Music
Worth
Few
Just Do It
Hundreds
Compromise
Songs
Written
Protected
Sure
Always
Up
Friends
Just
Held
Albums
I read the script, and I knew it was a good part. It was written for a white actor. That's what I'm up against - I have to try to make roles happen for me that aren't written black.
Gregory Hines
Good
Me
Try
Black
White
Part
Written
Knew
Make
Read
Up
Roles
Happen
Against
Script
Actor
When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante
Myself
Needs
Enjoy
Write
Written
Reader
Being
Much
Really
I've probably written some books - I know I've written some books that were more interesting to me than to a large audience, but that was mostly when I was first getting started in academia and writing for a narrow audience.
H. W. Brands
Me
Writing
First
Books
Some
More
Written
Academia
Know
Mostly
Audience
Narrow
Were
Than
Getting
Getting Started
Interesting
Large
Large Audience
Started
With 'True Grit,' the language was very specific, as is Shakespeare. You couldn't really improvise, nor would you really ever have to. I never felt the need to. It was all so beautifully written, and it was all right there.
Hailee Steinfeld
You
Language
Improvise
Would
Shakespeare
Never
Written
True
Beautifully
Felt
Nor
Very
Grit
Really
Ever
Specific
Right
Need
Like many writers, I'm usually more interested in reading about authors than their actual works. We're more curious to know how they were written than what they are like to read.
Hallgrimur Helgason
Reading
About
More
Writers
Written
Like
Know
Read
How
Were
Than
Curious
Authors
Interested
Many
Works
Actual
I think that fiction writers can write about anyone. If you are writing a character, and the only thing they are to you is their otherness, then you haven't written a character.
Hanya Yanagihara
Character
You
Writing
Think
About
Only
Write
Writers
Written
Fiction
The Only Thing
Anyone
Fiction Writers
Then
Thing
I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to be understood. I like what I've written, the stories and two novels. If I had to give up what I've written in order to be clear of this disease, I wouldn't do it.
Harold Brodkey
Change
Past
Think
Would
Give
Had
Written
Clear
Like
Understood
Up
Expect
Disease
Order
Stories
Novels
Two
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
Harold Pinter
Before
Damn
Enough
Say
Written
Said
Again
Plays
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