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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
Gavin Rossdale
Success
Me
Important
Past
Think
Others
Our
About
Also
Wrote
Always
Were
Lot
Things
I don't see myself as the boss. I sing and write the songs, and it would feel strange if somebody else wrote the lyrics I sang.
Gavin Rossdale
Myself
Strange
Somebody
Else
Lyrics
Would
See
Boss
Write
Songs
Feel
Sing
Wrote
Sang
I have written a picture book that is based on my daughters. You know, my youngest one likes to tell everybody, 'Mommy wrote 'Best Day Ever' about us.' Which is true.
Gayle Forman
Best
Day
You
Book
Picture
Everybody
Tell
About
Daughters
Written
True
Picture Book
Know
Likes
Wrote
Which
Us
Youngest
Mommy
Based
Ever
I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.
Gayle Forman
Book
Writing
Path
Thought
Down
Books
Those
Though
Kids
Magazines
Someone
Write
Never
Clearly
Particular
Wrote
Read
Always
Up
Want
Grew
Wanting
Stories
Them
Newspapers
Who
Even
Career
Career Path
I wrote my first novel when my daughter was about six months old.
Gayle Forman
Old
Daughter
First
Months
About
Wrote
Six
Novel
When we made 'Night of the Living Dead,' we got riddled. There was this famous article Roger Ebert wrote just blasting the film because he had gone to see it at some screening where there were all these kids in the audience. I don't know why that happened. We didn't make the movie for kids.
George A. Romero
Made
Gone
Living
Kids
See
Some
Had
He
Blasting
Know
Dead
Wrote
Make
Because
Audience
Got
Were
Roger
Article
Just
Famous
Where
Screening
Movie
Happened
Riddled
Film
Why
Night
The situation of the Old Left was the theory of Socialist Realism, etc. It seemed pointless to argue. We stayed carefully away from people who wrote for the New Masses.
George Oppen
People
Old
Situation
Carefully
Stayed
Seemed
Argue
Pointless
New
Masses
Wrote
Left
Realism
Etc
Theory
Who
Socialist
Away
I worked as a carpenter for a few years. I began writing. I wrote a book about my time in Africa - that came out in 1988 - called 'The Village of Waiting.'
George Packer
Time
Waiting
Book
Writing
Few
Carpenter
Out
About
My Time
Wrote
Came
Years
Began
Africa
Worked
Village
Boy, there are days where I get up and say 'Where the hell did my talent go? Look at this crap that I'm producing here. This is terrible. Look, I wrote this yesterday. I hate this, I hate this.'
George R. R. Martin
Hate
Yesterday
Hell
Say
Talent
Days
Look
Wrote
Terrible
Boy
Go
Up
Get
Did
Where
Crap
Producing
Here
Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote the entire novel, and when it was all finished, I would give it to my agent and say, 'Well, here's a novel; sell it if you can.' And they would do that, and it was good because I never had anyone looking over my shoulder.
George R. R. Martin
Good
You
Will
Finished
Looking
Chapters
Say
Would
Entire
Give
Something
Outlines
Writers
Never
Had
Over
Like
Wrote
Well
Because
Contract
Sell
Selling
Get
Anyone
Agent
Shoulder
Many
Novel
Here
I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines, and I've written for Hollywood.
George R. R. Martin
Kinds
Student
Writer
Writers
Written
Pieces
Wrote
Amateur
Been
Short
Short Story
Story
Hollywood
Many
Novelist
Career
But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began to write in English, a man of genius, to interpret and improve on him, was not found for a long time.
George Saintsbury
Time
Man
Genius
Long
Long Time
Latin
Rarest
Only
Write
Exceptions
He
French
Wrote
Him
Began
Improve
English
Englishmen
Found
Interpret
I think I knew I was going to be a musician for the rest of my life kind of early. When I was in third grade, I was playing in a talent show, and my dad wrote a two- or three-minute boogie-woogie piece. I played it, everybody loved it, and I was like, 'Wow, this is great.'
Gerald Clayton
Life
Great
Rest
My Life
Think
Everybody
Musician
Kind
Wow
Knew
Talent
Like
Piece
Wrote
Grade
Going
Loved
Show
Dad
Played
Early
Playing
Two
Third
When I wrote 'Before The Dawn,' I made it quite clear that there are lots of people involved in my life who I can't talk about simply because I'd put them at risk.
Gerry Adams
Life
People
Made
My Life
Before
About
Risk
Dawn
Put
Clear
Simply
Involved
Talk
Wrote
Because
Lots
Quite
Them
Who
I got a song called 'All That I Got Is You.' I wrote that from the heart.
Ghostface Killah
You
Heart
Song
Wrote
Got
In sixth grade, we all had to write this opinion paper. Most wrote about things like why we should be able to chew gum in class - I wrote about why women should receive equal pay.
Gillian Jacobs
Class
Women
Pay
Paper
Gum
Able
About
Write
Had
Like
Most
Equal
Wrote
Equal Pay
Opinion
Chew
Grade
Sixth
Should
Why
Things
Receive
I remember when I wrote songs when I was about 16, they all sounded the same because I didn't know anything. And all the subject matter was all the same because I hadn't actually done much.
Gin Wigmore
Remember
Matter
About
Songs
Remember When
Know
Wrote
Because
Subject
Subject Matter
Same
Done
Anything
Much
Actually
When I'm dead, somebody can write my biography. I wrote a national hymn, an anthem, which I don't want to present to that country. But I have a deal with my wife - when I'm dead, she should offer it, because then I'm safe.
Giorgio Moroder
Wife
Somebody
Country
National
Hymn
Write
Safe
Dead
Wrote
She
Because
Deal
Anthem
Offer
Want
Which
Then
Should
Present
Biography
Life would be much easier if I just wrote the same book over and over again. But I'm not interested in doing that.
Glen Duncan
Life
Book
Easier
Would
Would-Be
Over
Wrote
Doing
Same
Just
Not Interested
Again
Interested
Much
I always want to do - take everything and take it to the next step. I don't want to just keep doing something the same ol' thing. Obviously, I could have wrote 'Mother' 20 times and made tons of money and be playing gigantic arenas and whatever, but that's not really what I want to do.
Glenn Danzig
Money
Mother
Made
Whatever
Everything
Gigantic
Something
Arenas
Could
Take
Step
Wrote
Obviously
Always
Doing
Times
Same
Just
Want
Really
Next
Next Step
Keep
Thing
Playing
Tons
I wrote in my first book that I was broken, and now it just makes me mad every time. This is why writing words in books is so precarious. This is why Jesus only wrote in the sand, right? I just - I hate that I wrote that.
Glennon Doyle Melton
Time
Me
Broken
Book
Hate
Writing
Words
First
Every
Every Time
Books
Mad
Only
Wrote
Makes
Precarious
Just
Sand
Now
Why
Right
Jesus
I didn't write to be famous; I wrote to keep a record.
Gloria Emerson
Record
Write
Wrote
Famous
Keep
I once wrote a book on courage and what made people courageous. I found it was a strength of belief matched by a strength of willpower.
Gordon Brown
Strength
Courage
Book
People
Made
Once
Willpower
Wrote
Courageous
Matched
Belief
Found
I wrote one called 'The No Hotel.' I got inspired in 1989 while I was on a trip down to Brazil, and I didn't finish it until eight years later.
Gordon Lightfoot
Brazil
Down
Later
Trip
Finish
Inspired
Hotel
Until
Wrote
Got
Years
Eight
While
It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer.
Gore Vidal
Time
Army
Victim
Algeria
Our
Once
Our Time
Atrocities
True
French
Wrote
Real
Referring
Tragedy
Any
Us
Sartre
'Somebody That I Used to Know,' like a lot of the record, was a bit of a struggle to finish. It was written fairly quickly - I wrote it in November 2010 - but it took six months to find Kimbra and really realize she was the right vocalist to make the female part come to life. There were constant hurdles.
Gotye
Life
Struggle
November
Hurdles
Somebody
Took
Months
Bit
Find
Constant
Record
Vocalist
Finish
Part
Written
Come
Like
Know
Wrote
She
Make
Fairly
Female
Were
Lot
Quickly
Six
Realize
Really
Used
Right
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