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My first book deal was actually for a textbook - 'Judo and You' - that I wrote while teaching at Temple University. A scout for Kendall-Hunt came looking for someone to write the book, and even though it wasn't a course I was teaching there, I agreed to write it.
Jonathan Maberry
You
Book
First
Looking
Though
Temple
Someone
Write
Wrote
Course
Deal
Came
Textbook
Scout
While
Teaching
Agreed
Even
Actually
University
I wrote a novel, Ghost Road Rules, and as soon as it was done and polished, I began reaching out to agents. I ignored the frequent advice to 'shoot low and try for a low-level agent because they're the only ones that will take a flyer on a new author.' That sounded like bad advice to me.
Jonathan Maberry
Me
Try
Will
Advice
Flyer
Ghost
Rules
Out
Bad
Only
Take
Road
Soon
New
Like
Reaching
Wrote
Because
Polished
Frequent
Began
Author
Shoot
Done
Low
Agent
Agents
Low-Level
Ignored
Novel
I have been an Avengers fan since the middle 1960s. I grew up with them, and I've imagined a hundred different versions of an Avengers movie. I think I even have a script I wrote back in eighth grade, 'Avengers vs. the Mole Man.' Truly dreadful, but a work of love.
Jonathan Maberry
Work
Love
Man
Think
Back
Hundred
Dreadful
Since
Wrote
Been
Truly
Versions
Up
Grade
Middle
Different
Movie
Fan
Grew
Eighth
Eighth Grade
Script
Them
Avengers
Mole
Even
Imagined
Havana is one of the great cities of the world, sublimely tawdry yet stubbornly graceful, like tarnished chrome - a city, as a young Winston Churchill once wrote, where 'anything might happen.'
Jonathan Miles
Great
World
Young
Once
Churchill
Cities
City
Havana
Winston
Winston Churchill
Like
Wrote
Tarnished
Graceful
Where
Happen
Anything
Might
When I was sixteen, I wrote the first hundred or so pages of a novel about a piano that was haunted by the ghost of an evil blues musician.
Jonathan Tropper
Evil
First
Hundred
Ghost
Musician
About
Haunted
Piano
Wrote
Sixteen
Blues
Pages
Novel
I can't remember anything I ever wrote.
Joni Mitchell
Remember
Wrote
Anything
Ever
One Christmas, I wrote a nativity play. But nobody turned up on the day of the performance apart from my brother and my cousins, so I just read the whole script onstage and made my brother pretend to be one of the animals at the inn.
Jorja Smith
Christmas
Day
Made
Animals
Pretend
Brother
Onstage
Performance
Nobody
Wrote
Read
Cousins
Up
Just
Nativity
Script
Apart
Turned
Whole
Play
Inn
The first song I wrote was when I was 11. It was called 'Life Is a Path Worth Taking.'
Jorja Smith
Life
Song
Worth
Path
Life Is A
First
Taking
Wrote
I remember the first article I ever wrote, and I saw my name in the paper, and I already knew I was undocumented, and I was thinking: 'How can they now say I don't exist?'
Jose Antonio Vargas
Remember
First
Thinking
Saw
Paper
Say
Knew
Name
Wrote
How
Exist
Undocumented
Article
Now
Ever
I wrote poems. That is my work. I am convinced... I believe that what I wrote will be useful to people not only now but in future generations.
Joseph Brodsky
Work
Future
People
Will
Believe
Future Generations
Poems
Only
Generations
Wrote
Am
Convinced
Useful
Now
I think most writers' houses are disappointing. What's much more atmospheric and interesting are the places they wrote about.
Joseph Kanon
Think
Atmospheric
About
More
Writers
Disappointing
Most
Wrote
Houses
Places
Interesting
Much
The U.S. basically wrote the rules and created the institutions of globalisation.
Joseph Stiglitz
Rules
Institutions
Wrote
Globalisation
Created
Basically
Melissa McCarthy just opened this new movie, 'Identity Thief,' and Rex Reed, who's a known critic, wrote a scathing commentary on her weight. I think that weight designation is one of the last frontiers of bullying. I don't know what the right 'ism' for it is, but I think that there's a level of that that's happening that's certainly not okay.
Josh Gad
Bullying
Thief
Think
Melissa
Okay
Critic
Weight
Opened
New
Know
Wrote
Identity
Known
Reed
Commentary
Just
Frontiers
Movie
McCarthy
Happening
Certainly
Her
Right
Level
Designation
Last
'The Rap Year Book' is really great. Shea Serrano wrote it, and it became this huge phenomenon where he sold out everywhere and made the bestseller list just on the strength of his fans on Twitter wanting him to succeed.
Josh Gondelman
Strength
Great
Book
Fans
Made
Year
Twitter
Sold
Everywhere
Rap
Out
Bestseller
He
Wrote
Him
Became
His
Huge
List
Just
Where
Wanting
Succeed
Really
Phenomenon
I wrote 'Sophie's World' in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when I'm working on a book.
Jostein Gaarder
Work
Day
Book
Writing
World
Three
Sleeping
Months
Only
Hours
Wrote
Working
'A Fair Maiden' existed in notes and sketches for perhaps a year. When I traveled, I would take along with me my folder of notes - 'ideas for stories.' Eventually, I began to write it and wrote it fairly swiftly - in perhaps two months of fairly intense writing and rewriting. Most of my time writing is really re-writing.
Joyce Carol Oates
Time
Me
Writing
Year
Months
Would
My Time
Maiden
Write
Take
Along
Fair
Perhaps
Ideas
Most
Wrote
Fairly
Existed
Began
Intense
Rewriting
Stories
Sketches
Notes
Really
Swiftly
Traveled
Eventually
Two
When I did 'Happy Birthday,' I wrote the treatment for the video before I wrote the record. And once I wrote the video, I had a clear understanding of what I wanted; I created the soundtrack to that video.
Joyner Lucas
Birthday
Happy
Understanding
Before
Once
Record
Had
Clear
Wrote
Soundtrack
Did
Wanted
Happy Birthday
Video
Created
Treatment
Yes, I wrote songs. I was becoming kind of an Enrique Iglesias kind of a singer, with those ballads and cheesy romantic things.
Juan Diego Florez
Those
Kind
Songs
Singer
Wrote
Cheesy
Becoming
Ballads
Yes
Romantic
Things
One of the things that made Epic strong when I wrote the original code was that it never occurred to me to do anything other than put the patient at the center. I developed a clinical system at a time when the health care world had pretty much only billing and lab systems available.
Judith Faulkner
Time
Health
Me
World
Strong
Care
Made
Patient
Other
System
Systems
One Of The Things
Pretty
Only
Never
Had
Developed
Put
Wrote
Health Care
Occurred
Clinical
Lab
Than
Anything
Center
Available
Epic
Much
Billing
Original
Code
Things
I had lived with my mother in anger and love - I suppose most daughters do - but my children only knew her in one way: As the lady who thought they were smarter than Albert Einstein. As the lady who thought they wrote better than William Shakespeare. As the lady who thought every picture they drew was a Rembrandt.
Judith Viorst
Love
Anger
Better
Mother
Thought
Picture
Every
Way
William
One-Way
Drew
Shakespeare
Only
Daughters
Rembrandt
Had
Knew
Smarter
Suppose
Most
Wrote
Were
Than
Children
Lady
Einstein
Who
Lived
Her
Albert
Albert Einstein
I was always a storyteller. I just didn't know it. I never shared the stories I made up inside my head when I was growing up. I never wrote them down, either. But I can't remember a time when they weren't there.
Judy Blume
Time
Remember
Made
Down
Inside
Never
Shared
Head
Know
Wrote
Always
Were
Up
Just
Stories
Either
Storyteller
Them
Growing
Growing Up
I'm thinking of sending out censorship packets: information to share with those who want to defend my books when they come under fire. I'll tell why I wrote them and include reviews and letters of support from children and their parents.
Judy Blume
Censorship
Parents
Fire
Thinking
Books
Those
Out
Tell
Share
Support
Come
Wrote
Reviews
Sending
Children
Want
Information
Them
Who
Include
Why
Letters
Defend
At the time I wrote 'Forever,' I had a 14-year-old daughter, and she was reading a lot of books about young love.
Judy Blume
Love
Time
Daughter
Reading
Young
Books
About
Had
Wrote
She
Lot
Forever
I wrote 'Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret' right out of my own experiences and my own feelings when I was in sixth grade.
Judy Blume
God
Me
You
Feelings
Own
Out
My Own
Wrote
Grade
Sixth
Experiences
Right
Margaret
My Brilliant Career was beautifully directed, but I had a bit of trouble with myself in it. It was a silly script, based on a book this 16-year-old girl wrote.
Judy Davis
Myself
Book
Brilliant
Girl
Trouble
Bit
Silly
Directed
Had
Wrote
Beautifully
Script
Based
Career
When I was first approached about doing an autobiography, I said, 'absolutely not.' But when I sat down, memories came pouring out. It wrote very quickly - I think there was an emotional impulse, because once I started in, the story itself carried me along. It was a very intense writing period and took a year and change to finish.
Julia Cameron
Me
Memories
Change
Writing
First
Year
Down
Think
Took
Once
Carried
Out
About
Finish
Absolutely
Emotional
Absolutely Not
Pouring
Along
Period
Wrote
Because
Said
Doing
Came
Itself
Very
Quickly
Intense
Impulse
Autobiography
Story
Sat
Started
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