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When I wrote 'Southern Baptist Sissies,' that was the first time that I really ventured out into pure drama with themes where there was not one laugh sometimes. But I've always gravitated organically to blending tones and usually get good reviews about that. That's what life is about.
Del Shores
Life
Time
Good
Sometimes
Pure
First
Drama
Laugh
Out
About
Blending
Wrote
First Time
Always
Reviews
Sissies
Southern
Southern Baptist
Get
Where
Baptist
Themes
Organically
Really
Tones
What's funny about Jesus' Son is that I never even wrote that book, I just wrote it down. I would tell these stories and people would say, You should write these things down.
Denis Johnson
Funny
You
Son
Book
People
Down
Say
Tell
Would
About
Write
Never
Wrote
Just
Stories
Should
Even
Things
Jesus
I always wanted to work at 'Take A Break' magazine, you know, just to inject a little bit of politics into their stories. I applied for a job there after I'd done my law degree and didn't even get an interview. I only wrote 'Garnethill' because I didn't get that job!
Denise Mina
Work
Politics
You
Law
Job
Degree
Interview
Bit
Magazine
Only
Take
Know
Wrote
Because
Always
Get
Done
Just
Wanted
Stories
After
Break
Little
Little Bit
Even
Applied
I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap?
Dennis Farina
Writing
Christ
Later
Say
Visit
Tried
Days
Wrote
Go
Crap
Who
Jesus
Jesus Christ
Two
At MIT, mostly what I did was documentation. I sort of read things. Wrote some descriptions of various aspects of the file system. Did not really do very much programming at all. At least on Multics.
Dennis Ritchie
Programming
System
Some
Various
Wrote
Documentation
Mostly
Read
Sort
Least
MIT
Very
Did
Much
Really
Aspects
File
Descriptions
Things
At 31, I decided to learn how to read and, at 32, read my first book: Lee Iacocca's autobiography. Ten years later, with my friend Larry 'Smokey' Genta, I wrote my first book, which was my proudest accomplishment.
Diamond Dallas Page
Book
First
Later
My Friend
Ten
Ten Years
Wrote
Learn
Read
Smokey
How
Proudest
Years
Accomplishment
Lee
Friend
Autobiography
Decided
Which
Larry
From the late '70s to the early '90s, I wrote anything anybody would pay me for. This ranged from articles on how to clean a longhorn cow's skull for living-room decoration to manuals on elementary math instruction on the Apple II... to a slew of software reviews and application articles done for the computer press.
Diana Gabaldon
Me
Pay
Late
Software
Press
Would
Clean
Computer
Instruction
Wrote
How
Math
Cow
Reviews
Articles
Done
Anybody
Anything
Decoration
Skull
Elementary
Apple
Apple II
Application
Early
I wanted to be a literary writer, so I wrote story after story and sent them to 'The New Yorker.'
Diane Mott Davidson
Writer
New
Wrote
Yorker
Wanted
New Yorker
Literary
After
Story
Sent
Them
I've been in grocery stores, and if they're playing my music, I'll yell, 'Hey! I wrote that!' I've been next to cars and have done that!
Diane Warren
Music
Car
Hey
Wrote
Been
Yell
Done
Stores
Grocery
Next
Playing
If I ever wrote a book, people would never believe it.
Dick Dale
Book
People
Believe
Would
Never
Wrote
Ever
I wrote a little autobiography about how luck has to do with everything. It's called 'My Lucky Life In and Out of Show Business.' A publisher came to me and said, 'Write a book,' so I did. I wanted to call it 'Everybody Else Has Got a Book.'
Dick Van Dyke
Life
Me
Business
Book
Luck
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Everything
Out
About
Write
Wrote
Call
Said
Got
How
Came
Did
Autobiography
Wanted
Little
Show
Show Business
Lucky
Publisher
I wrote that song 'Black,' and it was just this idea that I had been married for 10 years. Everyone talks about 'happily ever after,' but there's so much more to it than that.
Dierks Bentley
Song
Black
Everyone
Married
About
More
Had
Idea
Wrote
Talks
Been
Years
Than
Just
After
Happily
Much
Ever
Ever After
Brahms believed that there was no need to publish absolutely everything that Schubert ever wrote.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Publish
Everything
Absolutely
Absolutely Everything
Wrote
Schubert
Believed
Ever
Need
I wrote my first book without being to Ethiopia since I was two years old.
Dinaw Mengestu
Book
Old
First
Since
Wrote
Without
Years
Being
Ethiopia
Two
I found songwriting really hard at first, but after a while it was actually very easy. I wrote about everyday stuff.
Dionne Bromfield
First
Everyday
Easy
About
Songwriting
Stuff
Wrote
Very
After
While
Really
Hard
Found
Actually
I wrote music. I was in a hardcore band when I was 14, and I wasn't good enough to play anyone else's songs, so I had to write my own.
Dito Montiel
Music
Good
Band
Own
Enough
Else
My Own
Write
Had
Songs
Wrote
Anyone
Hardcore
Play
I was listening to one of my favorite songs that Phil wrote and had an extreme emotional moment just before I got the news of his passing. I took that as a special spiritual message from Phil saying goodbye. Our love was and will always be deeper than any earthly differences we might have had.
Don Everly
Love
Saying
News
Spiritual
Listening
Will
Before
Differences
Took
Our
Extreme
Earthly
Our Love
Saying Goodbye
Favorite
Emotional
Had
Songs
Goodbye
Wrote
Message
Always
Got
Passing
His
Than
Any
Just
Might
Special
Moment
Deeper
Phil
I wrote my thesis on the benefits of war and very near got thrown out of college. But I can show you where the greatest advancement of mankind comes under stress and strain, not comfort.
Don Young
War
You
Benefits
Stress
College
Out
Thrown
Advancement
Wrote
Comfort
Greatest
Got
Very
Where
Mankind
Strain
Show
Thesis
Near
A guy named Peter Rabe wrote a batch of books for Gold Medal in the '50s, and he was absolutely the single largest influence on writing style. I was completely in love with the way the man wrote.
Donald E. Westlake
Love
Man
Writing
Single
Style
Batch
Books
Way
Guy
Absolutely
Writing Style
He
Named
Wrote
Gold
Gold Medal
Influence
Peter
Medal
Largest
I write when the urge hits me, getting the words down as fast as I can type and then I step back from what I just wrote and start a dialectical process where I begin challenging my own writing.
Donald McKay
Me
Writing
Words
Own
Down
Type
Back
My Own
Write
Step
Wrote
Dialectical
Begin
Hits
Getting
Just
Where
Process
Urge
Then
Fast
Challenging
Start
I'd always been around kids, and when you don't have kids, you have a lot more time to do things. Before I had kids, I was a lot more prolific and wrote books a lot faster.
Doreen Cronin
Time
You
Before
Faster
Books
Prolific
Kids
More
Had
Wrote
Around
Always
Been
Lot
Things
My recurring nightmare is that someday I will be faced with a panel: Franklin Roosevelt, John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson all of whom will be telling me everything I got wrong about them. I know that Johnson's out there saying, 'Why is it that what you wrote about the Kennedys is twice as long as the book you wrote about me?'
Doris Kearns Goodwin
Saying
Me
You
Book
Will
Long
Lyndon
Lyndon Johnson
Panel
Everything
Franklin
Franklin Roosevelt
Out
Telling
John
John Kennedy
Someday
About
Faced
Johnson
Recurring
Wrong
Know
Wrote
Got
Them
Roosevelt
Whom
Twice
Why
Kennedy
Kennedys
Nightmare
I was writing all my childhood. And I wrote two novels when I was 17, which were terrible. And I'm not sorry I threw them out. So, I wrote. I had to write. You know, the thing was, I had no education.
Doris Lessing
Education
You
Writing
Sorry
Out
Threw
Write
Had
Know
Wrote
Terrible
Were
Childhood
Which
Them
Novels
Thing
Two
I first met the subject of X-ray diffraction of crystals in the pages of the book W. H. Bragg wrote for school children in 1925, 'Concerning the Nature of Things.'
Dorothy Hodgkin
Nature
Book
School
First
Met
School Children
Wrote
Concerning
Crystals
Subject
Children
Pages
Things
The last book I read before I wrote my first book - 'Ghosts of Manhattan' - was 'The Gold Coast' by DeMille. I loved it, and it gave me a lot of energy to start into my own.
Douglas Brunt
Me
Book
First
Before
Own
Energy
Gave
Ghosts
My Own
Wrote
Read
Lot
Gold
Manhattan
Loved
Coast
Start
Last
Three hours of creating is taxing on any brain, and you should stop there. Some days, you may stop without any words at all. It's much easier to write new stuff the next day than to go through painful deletions of a day's worth of crap you already wrote.
Douglas Brunt
Day
You
Words
Worth
Three
Easier
Some
Through
Write
Stuff
New
Days
Hours
Wrote
Without
Go
Brain
Than
New Stuff
Any
May
Stop
Crap
Taxing
Much
Next
Creating
Should
Painful
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