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One of the things about the Constitution - that our forefathers wrote, and basically, there were none of our foremothers that were there. There were none of our fore-sisters there. There are changes that can take place, and there is room to change.
Danny K. Davis
Change
Constitution
Changes
Our
One Of The Things
About
Take
Wrote
Forefathers
None
Were
Place
Room
Things
Basically
I wrote 'Black Deutschland' very quickly one summer, probably because I had a lot of it in pieces and fragments sitting around over the years as false starts or notes.
Darryl Pinckney
Black
Starts
Fragments
Summer
Had
Over
Pieces
Wrote
Because
Around
Years
False
Lot
Very
Quickly
Sitting
Notes
One of the first times I wrote about Robin Williams for 'The New York Times,' I interviewed him for a feature about 'World's Greatest Dad,' a dark comedy he starred in for his friend, the writer-director Bobcat Goldthwait.
Dave Itzkoff
World
Dark
Comedy
First
Williams
About
Feature
He
New
Wrote
Him
Robin
Robin Williams
Greatest
His
Friend
Times
York
New York
New York Times
Dad
Starred
For my books of nonfiction I write about subjects I find fascinating. I've been a Yankees and a Lou Gehrig fan for decades, so I wrote 'Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man.' It's more the story of his great courage than of his baseball playing. Children face all sorts of challenges, and it's my hope that some will be inspired by the courage of Lou Gehrig.
David A. Adler
Hope
Great
Man
Challenges
Courage
Will
Face
Books
Find
Some
About
More
Inspired
Write
Wrote
Sort
Yankees
Nonfiction
Been
His
Subjects
Than
Decades
Children
Fan
Story
Fascinating
Luckiest
Baseball
Playing
Despite his dodgy politics, Yeats remains an inspiration for his genius and the simple fact that the older he got, the better he wrote.
David Benioff
Politics
Genius
Better
Simple
Older
Despite
Simple Fact
Fact
Inspiration
Remains
He
Wrote
Got
His
Yeats
One day, at my office, I wrote down some names and dates and notes, and I wrote a title, 'The Age of Despair,' and then some other 'Ages' - Innocence, God, Reason, Hope - and I wrote this as well: 'Woman, born in 1930, lives till the age of 80 or so, suffers depression, marries a car dealer, has children who grow up to confuse her.'
David Bergen
Depression
Hope
God
Day
Woman
Age
Car
Confuse
Down
Despair
Innocence
Other
One Day
Some
Born
Dates
Names
Wrote
Well
Dealer
Till
Up
Office
Children
Title
Notes
Then
Ages
Reason
Who
Grow
Grow Up
Lives
Suffers
Her
The story wrote quickly. I called it 'Where You're From,' and I sent it out, as I had numerous other stories over the years. Except this time I got a letter back saying that it would be published. Someone out there had liked the story. I was thirty-one years old.
David Bergen
Saying
Time
You
Old
Numerous
Other
Back
Out
Would
Would-Be
Someone
Except
Had
Over
Liked
Wrote
Got
Years
Quickly
Where
Stories
Story
Sent
Letter
Published
When I wrote the Anita Hill book I believed everything I wrote was accurate.
David Brock
Book
Everything
Hill
Wrote
Accurate
Believed
When I first wrote for orchestra, I didn't realize, when you have 20 people playing a violin line, that is very different than one person playing that line.
David Del Tredici
You
People
First
Wrote
Line
Very
Than
Person
Orchestra
Different
Realize
Playing
Violin
'Creeping Death' - that was a special song for me as a kid, because that was the one that every single Jewish kid thought, 'Oh, Metallica wrote a song for us. He wrote it about the exodus of the Jews from Egypt under slavery.'
David Draiman
Death
Me
Song
Thought
Single
Every
Jews
Kid
About
He
Wrote
Because
Metallica
Exodus
Egypt
Oh
Us
Special
Slavery
Creeping
Jewish
I've been covering North Korea nuclear issues since I was a young reporter in the Tokyo bureau of 'The Times' and wrote some of the first pieces about the existence of the program at Yongbyon.
David E. Sanger
First
Young
Some
About
Since
Pieces
Wrote
Korea
Issues
Been
Covering
Existence
Times
North
Reporter
North Korea
Bureau
Tokyo
Nuclear
Program
I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.
David Eddings
Happy
Degree
Submit
Sympathize
Had
Wrote
Read
Very
Graduation
Who
Novel
Professors
Publisher
Kickback is a police thriller which I wrote. I'm very proud of it. I did it in two parts for France because when I wrote it, there wasn't the audience demand for crime stuff that there is now.
David Lloyd
Police
Crime
France
Thriller
Demand
Stuff
Wrote
Parts
Because
Audience
Proud
Very
Did
Which
Now
Two
My wife and I, we knew each other back in 2001 but had fallen out of touch. One day, I had a dream about her and wrote her a note on Facebook - I was living in L.A. at the time - and that turned into six months of just letter-writing. It started off with Facebook messages and turned into emails and eventually became actual hand-written letters.
David Lowery
Time
Day
Facebook
Wife
Living
Other
Back
Months
Emails
One Day
Out
Dream
About
Touch
Had
Knew
Wrote
Messages
Became
Fallen
Off
Six
Just
Note
Turned
Each
Eventually
Letters
Actual
Her
Started
Faulkner wrote for film, and his ear is just impeccable.
David Milch
Faulkner
Impeccable
Wrote
His
Just
Film
Ear
I have a graduate degree from Penn State. I studied at Penn State under a noted Hemingway scholar, Philip Young. I had an interest in thrillers, and it occurred to me that Hemingway wrote many action scenes: the war scenes in 'A Farewell to Arms' and 'For Whom the Bell Tolls' come to mind. But the scenes don't feel pulpy.
David Morrell
War
Me
Mind
Degree
Young
Action
Philip
State
Penn
Penn State
Thrillers
Scenes
Scholar
Had
Studied
Feel
Come
Wrote
Arms
Occurred
Graduate
Graduate Degree
Interest
Noted
Farewell
Many
Hemingway
Whom
Bell
A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply.
David Remnick
Good
Better
Heroes
Faster
Say
Slightly
Could
Write
He
Wrote
Principle
Than
May
Anyone
Used
Who
Apply
When I wrote 'Dear Fatty,' I realised that sitting and writing alone is an absolute joy.
Dawn French
Alone
Writing
Joy
Fatty
Absolute
Wrote
Dear
Sitting
Realised
I did write more mainstream stuff with DK. But you could always tell the records that I wrote in contrast with everybody else's because the format was a bit different. The harmonies were used in a different type of way. Way more metaphors in the mix.
Dawn Richard
You
Everybody
Harmonies
Else
Type
Way
Bit
Tell
More
Records
Could
Write
Mainstream
Stuff
Wrote
Because
Always
Metaphors
Mix
Were
Contrast
Did
Different
Format
Used
Different Type
We were doing press for this movie that my friends and I made for $5,000 called 'Brothers Justice,' that I also wrote and directed. And during the press of that, people kept saying, 'What's next, what's next?' And my best friend Nate and I - Nate produced it - we kept saying, 'Oh, we're gonna do a car-chase movie next.'
Dax Shepard
Saying
Best
Justice
People
Made
Press
Best Friend
Brothers
Directed
Also
Wrote
Doing
Were
Friend
Friends
Oh
Movie
Gonna
Produced
Next
Kept
If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it.
Dean Koontz
Someone
Had
Wrote
Read
Twist
Peculiar
I wrote one book, signed with a good agent, and sat back and waited for the phone to ring. I was sure that the great news would come at any moment. Four books later, I finally got that call.
Deb Caletti
Good
Great
News
Book
Phone
Back
Books
Later
Finally
One Book
Signed
Would
Ring
Come
Wrote
Call
Sure
Got
Waited
Any
Agent
Moment
Sat
Four
I had written a story. I wrote the story out of some desperation, really, and I didn't know I was writing a story, and it took me years. And when I finished, a friend of mine had the idea that the story should be read as a monologue in a theater.
Deborah Eisenberg
Me
Writing
Desperation
Finished
Took
Mine
Out
Some
Had
Written
Idea
Know
Wrote
Read
Years
Friend
Story
Theater
Really
Should
Monologue
I've written something like 17 novels, which isn't bad, I suppose, but my father wrote 120 books, my mother 40. In comparison, I'm lazy.
Deborah Moggach
Mother
Father
Books
Bad
Something
Lazy
Written
Suppose
Like
Wrote
Which
Novels
Comparison
My first novel, 'You Must be Sisters,' was started in Pakistan. I've wrote several novels and a TV drama set or partly-set there.
Deborah Moggach
You
First
Drama
Several
TV
Must
Wrote
Sisters
Novel
Novels
Pakistan
Started
Set
I saw I could rhyme words. It came simply to me. But I wrote some pretty horrible songs that I still have on tape.
Del Shannon
Me
Words
Saw
Some
Pretty
Horrible
Could
Songs
Simply
Wrote
Still
Came
Tape
Rhyme
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