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I wrote so much about fandom and participation for NPR that I eventually realized my most fertile way of participating in music is to actually play it, at least in a way that made the most sense to me.
Carrie Brownstein
Music
Me
Made
Sense
Way
About
Participating
Participation
Most
Wrote
Least
Fertile
Realized
Much
Eventually
Play
Actually
'Peace Train' is a song I wrote, the message of which continues to breeze thunderously through the hearts of millions. There is a powerful need for people to feel that gust of hope rise up again.
Cat Stevens
Hope
Peace
People
Song
Gust
Rise
Through
Feel
Powerful
Wrote
Message
Up
Train
Hearts
Which
Again
Breeze
Millions
Need
One song I do is 'The First Cut is the Deepest.' I try to remind people I wrote that song, not Rod Stewart.
Cat Stevens
People
Song
Try
First
Remind
Wrote
Rod
Cut
Deepest
Nathaniel Rich wrote 'Odds Against Tomorrow' well before Hurricane Sandy and its surge crashed onto the isle of Manhattan, well before the streets were flooded and the subways drowned, only the Goldman Sachs building sparkling above the darkened avenues.
Cathleen Schine
Tomorrow
Building
Odds
Before
Rich
Hurricane
Above
Only
Onto
Drowned
Wrote
Well
Isle
Surge
Were
Manhattan
Goldman Sachs
Crashed
Against
Avenues
Sparkling
Sandy
Flooded
Streets
The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in Paris. He also wrote some beautiful songs in French.
Cecilia Bartoli
Beautiful
Living
Peer
Composing
Some
Paris
Songs
He
Also
French
Wrote
Stopped
My mother wrote a teen column for the South China Morning Post in the 1950s when she was growing up in Hong Kong. Her name was Lily Mark, but she sometimes wrote under her confirmation name, Margaret Mark. That was how she met my father.
Celeste Ng
Morning
Post
Sometimes
Mother
Father
Met
Teen
Mark
Hong Kong
Column
Name
Wrote
She
Lily
Kong
How
South
Up
Confirmation
China
Growing
Growing Up
Her
Margaret
I wrote 'Little Fires Everywhere' and sold the book in 2015, still the Obama years. The possibility of a Trump presidency was not on my radar.
Celeste Ng
Book
Presidency
Sold
Everywhere
Possibility
Obama
Fires
Wrote
Still
Years
Trump
Little
Radar
After college, I was living in New York and wrote furiously, a huge novel that I knew was a failure. I hoped that the book would work, but to be honest, I think I knew it would never work, even as I was finishing it.
Chang-Rae Lee
Work
Failure
Book
College
To Be Honest
Living
Think
Hoped
Would
Finishing
Never
Knew
New
Wrote
Huge
York
New York
After
Even
Novel
Honest
When I was in grad school, I wrote one early story that was Vegas, and then I stayed away from it. I was trying to expand and do different things. I knew I would write about it, but I stayed away for as long as I could.
Charles Bock
School
Long
Would
Stayed
About
Could
Write
Vegas
Knew
Wrote
Expand
Grad
Grad School
Trying
Different
Story
Then
Different Things
Away
Things
Early
While writing 'Cold Mountain,' I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I wrote. One was an early map of North Carolina. Overlaying it, though, was an imagined map of the landscape Jack travels in the southern Appalachian folktales. He's much the same Jack who climbs the beanstalk, vulnerable and clever and opportunistic.
Charles Frazier
Writing
Mind
Clever
Cold
Worlds
Carolina
Though
He
Wrote
Vulnerable
Climbs
Mountain
Southern
Jack
North
North Carolina
Same
While
Much
Held
Landscape
Appalachian
Who
Map
Maps
Travels
Early
Two
Imagined
I'd been to Stourhead and was inspired by the perfect parity between architecture and art; in fact, the architecture is the art. I wrote a piece called 'Not Sculpture Park,' because most of these things become car parks for bought-in sculpture. The artists should be working with the site, not just plonking pieces down.
Charles Jencks
Art
Architecture
Car
Become
Down
Parity
Park
Fact
Perfect
Inspired
Parks
Between
Most
Piece
Pieces
Wrote
Because
Been
Site
Just
Artists
In Fact
Should
Working
Sculpture
Things
I actually started trying to be a professional writer with novels, and I wrote two that exist and are around... kind of. But they never really went anyplace in particular. I still like them both. What it showed me was that you can spend years on a novel, and then it could just be, like, OK, you spent that time and that's that.
Charles Soule
Time
Me
You
Just Be
Spend
Spent
OK
Kind
Both
Could
Writer
Never
Particular
Like
Wrote
Around
Still
Years
Exist
Trying
Just
Them
Then
Really
Professional
Novel
Novels
Professional Writer
Actually
Started
Two
Right before I got 'Sons of Anarchy,' I actually quit acting for 18 months and didn't read a single script, and I wrote a film. I felt like I needed to do something that I had control over, as an artist, and also just do something where I felt like I had some control over my life, as just a human, out in the world.
Charlie Hunnam
Life
World
My Life
Single
Before
Control
Anarchy
Months
Out
Some
Something
Had
Sons
Over
Like
Also
Wrote
Read
Felt
Got
Quit
Artist
Human
Just
Where
Script
Acting
Film
Actually
Right
Needed
The first person that I ever heard sing a song I wrote was Jason Derulo. I was in the studio when he was doing it, and I mean, I've heard that guy's voice my whole life. When he was singing words I wrote, I started kind of choking up, but I tried to be all manly and puff my chest up and be all, 'Yeah, it's not a big deal.'
Charlie Puth
Life
Song
Words
First
Singing
Big
Manly
Kind
Tried
Guy
Voice
He
Studio
Sing
Wrote
Deal
First-Person
Yeah
Doing
Big Deal
Chest
Heard
Up
Person
Mean
Jason
Choking
Whole
Ever
Started
Puff
'Marvin Gaye' came about my first day in L.A. It was kind of crazy that that's my first song that I wrote and it blew up that much. What's crazy is the next day I wrote 'See You Again,' so that's pretty interesting. I was trying to prove myself as a songwriter.
Charlie Puth
Myself
Day
Crazy
You
Song
First
Kind
See
Pretty
About
Marvin Gaye
Songwriter
Blew
Wrote
Prove
Came
Up
Trying
Again
Interesting
Much
Next
When I wrote 'Marvin Gaye,' my whole intention was to make a record that people would put on a record player... and just instantly make out with each other.
Charlie Puth
People
Other
Out
Would
Record
Record Player
Marvin Gaye
Put
Instantly
Wrote
Make
Intention
Just
Whole
Each
Player
I'm one of those lazy actors; I like to take what the playwright wrote and work with that.
Cherry Jones
Work
Playwright
Those
Take
Lazy
Like
Wrote
Actor
I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned a living.
Cheryl Strayed
Time
Living
Earned
Took
Insane
Magazines
Wrote
How
Juggling
Taught
Workshops
Amount
Universities
I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.
Chinua Achebe
Love
Beautiful
Me
Heart
Passion
Language
Poet
Wild
Side
Chaotic
Right Side
Right Thing
Seemed
Poetry
He
Ideas
Liked
Wrote
Always
His
May
Just
Loved
The Right Thing
Really
Right
Thing
Flow
Perhaps what distinguishes my characters is their courage and spirit and a certain stubbornness which enables them to keep going even when facing a setback. I think this developed organically as I wrote, but also it came out of a desire to portray women as powerful and intelligent forces in the world.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Courage
Women
World
Think
Distinguishes
Out
Characters
Spirit
Facing
Stubbornness
Developed
Powerful
Perhaps
Also
Wrote
Forces
Enables
Came
Intelligent
Going
Which
Them
Organically
Certain
Even
Keep
Keep Going
Portray
Desire
Setback
I wrote 'Mistress of Spices' at an unusual time when I had a near-death experience after the birth of my second son.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Time
Son
Experience
Spices
Birth
Had
Wrote
Unusual
Mistress
After
Second
Each book is a separate entity for me. When I'm writing it, I enter its world and inhabit its vocabulary. I forget, as it were, that I ever wrote anything else.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Me
Book
Writing
World
Else
Enter
Vocabulary
Entity
Wrote
Were
Forget
Anything
Anything Else
Inhabit
Separate
Each
Ever
I had amazing intellectual privilege as a kid. My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five, I read and wrote well enough to do my nine-year older brother's homework in exchange for chocolate or cigarettes. By the time I was 10, I was reading Orwell, Tolstoy's 'War and Peace,' and the Koran. I was reading comic books, too.
Chris Abani
War
Time
Mom
Me
Peace
Amazing
Three
Reading
Older
Homework
Too
Enough
Cigarettes
Books
Kid
Brother
Exchange
Had
Wrote
Well
Well Enough
Read
Comic
Koran
Comic Books
Intellectual
Five
Privilege
Taught
Chocolate
Tolstoy
Orwell
Two
By The Time
I loved all ghost stories. So I guess it was only a matter of time before I wrote one.
Chris Bohjalian
Time
Matter
Before
Guess
Ghost
Ghost Stories
Only
Wrote
Stories
Loved
My first favorite band that made music important to me was the Beatles. I was a little kid. I didn't know who was singing what song or who wrote what song.
Chris Cornell
Music
Me
Beatles
Song
Made
First
Important
Singing
Band
Kid
Favorite
Know
Wrote
Little
Little Kid
Who
When I wrote 'We Can Be Heroes,' I was just so excited about the concept of playing loads of characters, and a television series allows you to do that.
Chris Lilley
You
Heroes
Television
Television Series
Characters
About
Excited
Concept
Wrote
Just
Series
Playing
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