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I wrote 'Criminal' in 45 minutes when everyone else went to lunch because I had to have a hit. I can force myself to do the work, but only if someone is right up behind me.
Fiona Apple
Work
Myself
Me
Lunch
Else
Criminal
Everyone
Everyone Else
Minutes
Someone
Only
Had
Wrote
Force
Because
Up
Hit
Behind
Right
To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to the French language and fits no other.
Florence King
Good
Achieve
Language
Good Taste
Other
Rarefied
Entirely
Tailored
French
Wrote
French Language
Meter
Verse
Pinnacle
Fits
Very
Taste
Uniquely
Plays
We wrote 'Olive Kitteridge' as six hours, and they asked us to make it in four.
Frances McDormand
Hours
Wrote
Make
Six
Us
Asked
Olive
Four
I wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism.
Francine Prose
Word
Before
About
Journalism
Wrote
Novels
Four
When I was sixteen or seventeen, I wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a playwright. But everything I wrote, I thought, was weak. And I can remember falling asleep in tears because I had no talent the way I wanted to have.
Francis Ford Coppola
Remember
Tears
Thought
Playwright
Everything
Seventeen
Way
Weak
No Talent
Writer
Had
Talent
Wrote
Because
Falling
Sixteen
Wanted
Asleep
Without a doubt, I was born to want to make cinema, but the kind of cinema I want to make is not like commercial movies, which I enjoy myself, but I wanted to be the kind of filmmaker who wrote original work, sort of like a novelist would who deals with who we are and our times or our relationships.
Francis Ford Coppola
Work
Myself
Cinema
Doubt
Enjoy
Relationships
Our
Kind
Would
Born
Like
Wrote
Make
Sort
Without
Deals
Times
Commercial
Want
Wanted
Which
Movies
Who
Original
Novelist
Filmmaker
I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance.
Frank Carson
Me
Heart
Marriage
Wife
Think
Attack
Had
Likes
Wrote
She
Very
Ambulance
Much
With our first record, we wrote concept songs but not a concept record.
Frank Iero
First
Our
Record
Songs
Concept
Wrote
I think I settled on the title before I ever wrote the book.
Frank McCourt
Book
Before
Think
Settled
Wrote
Title
Ever
I just wrote the book and was amazed and astounded that it became a bestseller and won the Pulitzer Prize. It still hasn't sunk in.
Frank McCourt
Book
Astounded
Sunk
Bestseller
Wrote
Became
Still
Amazed
Won
Prize
Just
Pulitzer
It gives me a very keen satisfaction that, after listening to my blather all those years, former students are now seeing that I wrote a book, that I did have it in me.
Frank McCourt
Me
Book
Listening
Those
Seeing
Gives
Students
Wrote
Years
Very
Did
After
Former
Keen
Satisfaction
Now
I wrote 'Channel Orange' in two weeks. The end product wasn't always that gritty, real-life depiction of the real struggle that happened.
Frank Ocean
Struggle
Gritty
Channel
Weeks
Wrote
Always
Real
End
End Product
Orange
Depiction
Happened
Product
Two
Two Weeks
I first wrote a biography of Thomas Carlyle, and it turned out I loved writing biographies and had a talent for it. I believed I had a contribution to make.
Fred Kaplan
Writing
First
Thomas
Out
Had
Talent
Wrote
Make
Contribution
Loved
Turned
Believed
Biographies
Biography
So when you're sat there and you're looking at a platinum disc on your wall, for a song you wrote on your own, it's like this is getting crazy, man. It's all crazy.
Freya Ridings
Crazy
You
Man
Song
Looking
Own
Like
Disc
Wrote
Wall
Getting
Your
Sat
Platinum
From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Best
Me
World
Try
Only
Could
Writer
Nobody
Leaf
Wrote
Left
Stop
The Only Thing
Wanted
Storm
Realized
Moment
Thing
My interest in the theater led me to my first writing experience as an adult. My husband David wrote the music and lyrics and I wrote the book for a children's musical, 'Spacenapped' that was produced by a neighborhood theater in Brooklyn.
Gail Carson Levine
Music
Me
Experience
Book
Writing
Husband
First
Lyrics
Musical
Neighborhood
Brooklyn
David
Adult
Wrote
Led
Children
Theater
Interest
Produced
I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer, particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that.
Gail Carson Levine
Painting
Kid
Drawing
Writer
Never
Had
Particularly
Wrote
Been
Years
Wanted
Loved
The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted.
Galen Rowell
Together
Words
Own
Unless
Diluted
My Own
Combination
Pictures
Wrote
Message
Effective
Began
Realise
Then
Really
Career
Growing up, I would watch a movie on video and would go to the back of the VHS and locate the address for Universal Pictures or MGM or whatever. I'd write to the studios asking them if I could be in a movie. They never wrote me back.
Garrett Hedlund
Me
Whatever
Back
Address
Locate
Would
Could
Write
Never
Studios
Pictures
Wrote
Go
Up
Movie
Them
Video
If I Could
Asking
Growing
Growing Up
Watch
Universal
I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.
Garrett Hedlund
People
Wonderful
Car
Long
Power
Jazz
Late
Took
Everything
Email
Months
More
Open
Roads
Vehicles
Stuff
Wrote
Always
Lines
Lack
Pollution
Billboards
Less
Now
Letters
Receive
For me, and this may not be everybody, but because I do love country music so much, there's such a feeling of home in Nashville, especially because it's such a small town. You bring up one song, everybody knows who wrote it, everybody knows their mother and what their cell number is, and all of the stories.
Garrett Hedlund
Love
Music
Home
Me
You
Song
Mother
Feeling
Country
Everybody
Small
Small Town
Country Music
Town
Wrote
Knows
Because
Nashville
Up
Cell
May
Stories
Much
Who
Bring
Number
With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
Garth Nix
Myself
Old
Mind
Half
Older
Trilogy
Kingdom
Rather
Adult
Particular
Wrote
Readers
Audience
Least
Were
Than
Them
Younger
I don't think there was a definite day, but it would have been around my mid-20s. I was always interested in the media side of things. When we travelled with England away, or to World Cups, I used to sit with journos while they wrote their copy.
Gary Lineker
Day
World
Sit
Think
Side
Definite
Would
Wrote
Around
Always
Been
Cups
While
Interested
Used
England
Media
Travelled
World Cups
Away
Things
Copy
We lived on a farm in the English countryside, where we wrote a lot of our music. You really were treated like an artist during those days-not like product, which is now the mode.
Gary Wright
Music
You
Farm
Our
Our Music
Those
Like
Countryside
Wrote
Were
Lot
Mode
Artist
Where
Which
Really
Product
English
English Countryside
Lived
Now
Treated
I worked initially in very low-budget independent films that I often wrote. My early work was all written by myself, and then I adapted 'Tsotsi,' so I was used to the writing process being, in a way, integral to my directing. I felt it really prepared me.
Gavin Hood
Work
Myself
Me
Writing
Films
Early Work
Way
Independent
Independent Films
Directing
Writing Process
Written
Wrote
Felt
Integral
Very
Often
Being
Process
Low-Budget
Then
Worked
Really
Used
Initially
Prepared
Early
Adapted
I wrote an article for 'The American Conservative' about a new trend of conservative hipsters. I did it for a laugh.
Gavin McInnes
Conservative
Trend
Laugh
About
New
Wrote
Article
American
Did
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