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Designing Woman was written for the screen.
Vincente Minnelli
Woman
Written
Screen
Designing
My drum parts are a song within the song; that's the way I look at writing my drum parts. They follow patterns, and they're written to interact with the rest of the band. There's quite a bit of thought that goes into it.
Vinnie Paul
Song
Writing
Thought
Rest
Band
Way
Bit
Follow
Written
Drum
Look
Parts
Within
Goes
Quite
Quite A Bit
Interact
Patterns
I don't really read a lot of newspapers. I don't pay attention to what is being said or written about me. I've had lots of experiences in the past when I got too much into it. That sort of diverts your focus.
Virat Kohli
Me
Too Much
Focus
Past
Pay
Pay Attention
Too
About
Had
Written
Attention
Read
Sort
Said
Got
Lot
Lots
Being
Experiences
In The Past
Newspapers
Much
Really
Your
Reviewers have called my books 'novels in verse.' I think of them as written in prose, but I do use stanzas. Stanza means 'room' in Latin, and I wanted there to be 'room' - breathing opportunities to receive thoughts and have time to come out of them before starting again at the left margin.
Virginia Euwer Wolff
Time
Thoughts
Opportunities
Before
Think
Books
Latin
Out
Written
Prose
Come
Verse
Reviewers
Left
Wanted
Again
Room
Them
Breathing
Means
Use
Novels
Margin
Receive
Starting
Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
Virginia Woolf
Human Being
Somewhere
Down
Everywhere
Hidden
Seek
Written
Written Down
Know
Him
Occupied
Idly
Human
Being
Form
Apparent
Now
Ever
It is important for the musician to learn as much about the composer as possible and to study the music he has written. Then, even a short piece by Brahms or Chopin can be played with much more understanding.
Vladimir Horowitz
Music
Important
Understanding
Musician
Possible
Composer
About
More
He
Written
Study
Piece
Learn
Short
Then
Much
Chopin
Even
Played
History should be written as philosophy.
Voltaire
History
Philosophy
Written
Should
I started writing in fourth grade and never stopped. I faked my way through high school and nearly was flushed from college - I still can't pay attention - and then had a series of day jobs. But always, continuously, I have written.
W. Bruce Cameron
Day
Writing
School
College
Pay
Pay Attention
Way
Jobs
High
High School
Through
Never
Had
Written
Attention
Always
Still
Continuously
Grade
Stopped
Then
Series
Nearly
Started
Fourth
Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.
W. G. Sebald
Small
Write
Small Piece
Written
Piece
Occasionally
Always
Odd
Lecture
German
Fiction
Teach
English
My texts are written like palimpsests. They are written over and over again, until I feel that a kind of metaphysical meaning can be read through the writing.
W. G. Sebald
Writing
Kind
Through
Written
Feel
Over
Like
Until
Read
Metaphysical
Texts
Again
Meaning
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
W. Somerset Maugham
Great
Great American
Only
Written
Been
American
Novel
Rejected
I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
W. Somerset Maugham
Half
Nothing
Would
Entertaining
More
Catalogue
Written
Sooner
Read
Than
Much
Novels
You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.
Wallace Shawn
You
Other
Those
More
Schedule
Writers
Written
Know
Most
Accomplish
Maybe
Much
Regular
Certainly
Who
Keep
Who have I picked fights with over the years? Bill Gates. Google. Mark Zuckerberg. Even - despite everything that's written about my relationship with Steve Jobs - we had yelling matches.
Walt Mossberg
Relationship
Google
Mark
Mark Zuckerberg
Despite
Everything
Jobs
About
Had
Picked
Written
Over
Steve
Steve Jobs
Matches
Years
Yelling
Bill
Bill Gates
Fights
Who
Even
Gates
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
Walter Bagehot
Good
People
Few
Books
Write
Written
Know
Few People
Anything
Reason
Who
Why
Take any writer you want in the 19th century: they wrote with quill pens, dipping a piece of goose feather in ink and writing. And yet we read those novels today, and if we're sensitive to them, we respond to them with an immediacy that is stronger than anything written today on a word processor.
Walter Murch
Today
You
Writing
Word
Stronger
Immediacy
Those
Respond
Pens
Dipping
Feather
Writer
Take
Written
Piece
Goose
Wrote
Read
Than
Quill
Any
Want
Anything
Sensitive
Them
Century
Novels
Ink
I've never talked to anyone writing a book on me. I've had so much written about me that is made up, usually something that seems silly enough or weird enough to get remarked upon, and it's pretty much all fiction.
Warren Beatty
Me
Book
Writing
Made
Enough
Pretty
Silly
About
Seems
Something
Never
Had
Written
Weird
Talked
Up
Get
Fiction
Anyone
Much
Literature is memory written down. All literature is memory.
Wayne Grady
Memory
Down
Written
Written Down
Literature
You know what? At the end of the day, funny is funny. I hope to see the end of all the female cliches that are written in a lot of comedies that are named chick flicks.
Wendi McLendon-Covey
Funny
Hope
Day
You
End Of The Day
See
Written
Named
Know
Comedies
Cliches
Female
Lot
Chick
End
Well, unlike a lot of authors, I will be the one to cop to having a ghostwriter. I've always written with someone else.
Wendy Williams
Will
Else
Unlike
Someone
Having
Written
Well
Always
Lot
Authors
Cop
In the '60s, I was teaching humanities at a college in upstate New York and trying to publish a novel I'd written in graduate school. But nothing was happening. So I moved to New York City and got a job as a messenger at a place that made movies.
Wes Craven
School
Job
Made
College
Nothing
Publish
Humanities
City
Written
New
Messenger
Got
Trying
York
Graduate
Graduate School
Moved
New York
New York City
Happening
Upstate
Upstate New York
Place
Movies
Teaching
Novel
Making a show is such a long process. You go through a TV production house that will commission scripts, and if they like what you've written, they take it to a network and sell it to them. It has always felt very far away from something that's actually real.
Whit Stillman
You
Will
Long
TV
Something
Network
Through
Long Process
Take
Written
Like
House
Felt
Always
Making
Real
Go
Sell
Very
Commission
Process
Scripts
Them
Far
Far Away
Production
Show
Away
Actually
The worst thing is the blank page at the start. Then the horrible things written on the blank page. Then deciding whether or not to throw out those horrible things: lame scenes, lame characters, bad ideas.
Whit Stillman
Those
Worst
Worst Thing
Out
Characters
Bad
Horrible
Horrible Things
Bad Ideas
Scenes
Blank
Throw
Blank Page
Written
Ideas
Deciding
Whether
Lame
Then
Page
Thing
Things
Start
With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivity - voiceover, the camera's point of view, good acting - but even the very best actor in the world is crude by comparison with what you can do in a written paragraph.
William Boyd
Best
Good
You
World
Tools
Paragraph
Voiceover
Point
Point Of View
Crude
Written
Limited
Camera
Subjectivity
Very
Convey
Good Acting
View
Acting
Even
Comparison
Film
Actor
Occasionally if I look back at something I've written I'll find one of those that I don't understand, but that's a bad thing - the unconscious has dealt me a bad hand.
William Gibson
Me
Back
Those
Bad
Find
Something
Bad Thing
Unconscious
Written
Look
Occasionally
Understand
Dealt
Hand
Thing
In the summer of 1791, I gave up my concern in the 'New Annual Register,' the historical part of which I had written for seven years, and abdicated, I hope forever, the task of performing a literary labour, the nature of which should be dictated by anything but the promptings of my own mind.
William Godwin
Hope
Nature
Mind
Own
Gave
Seven
Summer
My Own
Had
Part
Written
New
Performing
Annual
Concern
Years
Historical
Up
Dictated
Forever
Labour
Task
Literary
Anything
Which
Register
Should
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