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When I wrote my fictional novels, they always had a starting point of something real. Those images that are not real are exactly the same strength and power of the real ones, and the line between them is completely blurred.
Karl Ove Knausgard
Strength
Power
Those
Exactly
Exactly The Same
Something
Point
Had
Between
Wrote
Always
Real
Line
Same
Fictional
Blurred
Them
Novels
Images
Starting
Starting Point
My mother wrote a couple of romances when I was a kid, and I always saw books in our bookshelf with 'Schroeder' on the spine.
Karl Schroeder
Mother
Our
Books
Saw
Bookshelf
Kid
Spine
Couple
Wrote
Always
Romances
Once I wrote 'Atmosphere,' I thought, 'This is my story; it's me and my life and what I've gone through to get to where I am.' I'm not the best singer, but still. All of my albums are personal, but putting myself out there and singing is one more thing that makes me vulnerable - one more thing that people can fire shots at.
Kaskade
Life
Best
Myself
Me
People
Thought
My Life
Fire
Singing
Gone
Once
Out
Atmosphere
More
Through
Putting
Singer
Wrote
Vulnerable
Makes
Am
Still
Get
Personal
Where
Story
Shots
Thing
Albums
I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.
Kate Adie
Book
About
Write
Period
Wrote
Left
Very
Wanted
Specifically
I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people.
Kate Bush
Myself
People
Lonely
Own
Think
Dancing
Out
Seeing
My Own
Only
Songs
Songwriting
Wrote
Because
Around
Lot
Going
The Only Thing
Them
Really
Choosing
Thing
Originally, when I wrote the song 'The Sensual World' I had used text from the end of 'Ulysses.' When I asked for permission to use the text, I was refused, which was disappointing.
Kate Bush
Song
World
Had
Disappointing
Wrote
Permission
Ulysses
Text
End
Refused
Which
Sensual
Asked
Use
Used
Originally
People weren't even aware that I wrote my own songs. The media just promoted me as a female body. It's like I've had to prove that I'm an artist.
Kate Bush
Me
People
Own
Promoted
My Own
Had
Songs
Like
Wrote
Female
Prove
Were
Artist
Just
Body
Even
Media
Aware
I never liked dolls or played house. I read and wrote, climbed trees, collected rocks, rode my bike, and befriended boys, platonically.
Kate Christensen
Trees
Collected
Never
Liked
House
Wrote
Read
Boy
Climbed
Dolls
Rocks
Rode
Bike
Played
When I was a kid, it never occurred to me that human beings wrote books. It was a kind of cognitive dissonance for me... I just didn't think it was something that people did.
Kate DiCamillo
Me
People
Think
Books
Kid
Kind
Something
Never
Wrote
Occurred
Did
Human
Just
Human Beings
Beings
Cognitive
I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.
Kate Forsyth
History
Creative
Looking
Bitter
Component
Tale
Doctorate
Wrote
Am
Greens
Arts
The History Of
Theoretical
Novel
Now
One of the best essays I've seen in recent years was by a young woman who wrote about how being chosen to choreograph a high school musical forced her to assume a leadership role she wasn't sure she was ready for - but of course she was.
Kate Klise
Best
Leadership
Woman
School
Seen
Young
Assume
Musical
High
High School
About
Leadership Role
Wrote
She
Forced
Course
Sure
Ready
How
Years
Role
Essays
Being
Young Woman
Who
Choreograph
Chosen
Her
Recent
Recent Years
I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.
Kate Morton
Hope
Book
Pretty
Given
Wrote
Read
Up
Just
Being
Wanted
Much
Published
I wrote a whole solo album and recorded some of it, even did a little tour with Sara Lee and Gail Ann Dorsey.
Kate Pierson
Solo
Some
Recorded
Tour
Wrote
Lee
Did
Little
Whole
Even
Album
I did an internship with Dove when they were doing the 'real beauty' campaign, and I was really inspired by that. Growing up in L.A., being a young woman, and seeing how the media tells young women to be everything you're not, I kind of wrote about that experience.
Katherine Schwarzenegger
You
Woman
Women
Experience
Beauty
Young
Everything
Kind
Tells
Seeing
About
Inspired
Wrote
How
Real
Real Beauty
Doing
Were
Campaign
Up
Did
Being
Young Woman
Young Women
Really
Dove
Growing
Media
Growing Up
I had tried writing novels for many years, and they always escaped me. For a long time, I thought, 'It's just not in me to write a novel. It's not something I'm able to do.' It seemed like everything I wrote naturally ended at the bottom of page three. A picture book, three pages; an essay, three pages.
Kathi Appelt
Time
Me
Book
Writing
Thought
Three
Long
Long Time
Picture
Everything
Tried
Able
Seemed
Something
Write
Had
Bottom
Picture Book
Like
Wrote
Always
Years
Escaped
Ended
Essay
Just
Page
Pages
Naturally
Many
Novel
Novels
And then 'Wanderlust,' Ken Marino and David Wain wrote the funniest - they're amazing. That was one of my most favorite creative experiences; we're all up at that commune, a small group of people. Everyone was funnier than the next. It was an amazing ensemble feeling. Everyone gave and took in the best way.
Kathryn Hahn
Best
Creative
People
Amazing
Feeling
Group
Gave
Took
Everyone
Way
Ensemble
Favorite
Best Way
Small
Small Group
David
Most
Wrote
Up
Than
Experiences
Commune
Then
Next
Ken
Funnier
Funniest
I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months.
Kathryn Harrison
Day
Kiss
Months
Hours
Wrote
Six
For years, the place I really lived - the world I watched, the one I thought and wrote about - was 15th-century France.
Kathryn Harrison
World
Thought
France
About
Wrote
Years
Place
Really
Lived
Watched
When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if it was about females, they were girls who were going to grow up to be famous like Betsy Ross, Clara Barton, or Harriet Tubman. No one ever wrote about plain, normal, everyday girls.
Kathryn Lasky
Girl
Reading
Too
Everyday
Harriet
About
No-One
Like
Wrote
Females
Were
Males
Normal
Historical
Historical Fiction
Up
Going
Often
Famous
Fiction
Loved
Plain
Who
Grow
Grow Up
Growing
Growing Up
Ever
As I wrote, I found that Aibileen had some things to say that really weren't in her character. She was older, soft-spoken, and she started showing some attitude.
Kathryn Stockett
Attitude
Character
Older
Say
Some
Some Things
Had
Wrote
She
Were
Really
Showing
Found
Her
Things
Started
Nothing has changed that much, even during filmmaking for 'The Descendants.' I wrote. I took the kids to school. I cleaned the house. And I had dinner with George Clooney.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
School
Dinner
Nothing
Changed
Took
Kids
Cleaned
Had
House
Wrote
George
George Clooney
Clooney
Much
Descendants
Even
Filmmaking
You never imagine that the Green Bay Packers were going to be in something you wrote or singing 'Bootylicious.'
Kay Cannon
You
Singing
Bay
Something
Never
Wrote
Were
Green
Green Bay
Going
Packers
Imagine
Even if I wrote 'The Kay Cannon Show,' I would have to audition to play Kay Cannon. And I probably wouldn't get it.
Kay Cannon
Would
Wrote
Audition
Get
Cannon
Show
Kay
Even
Play
I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time.
Kazuo Ishiguro
Time
Strange
People
Thought
Difficult
Something
Write
Merchant
Also
Wrote
Concerned
Lot
Ivory
Going
Little
Movies
Ever
In 1939, Orwell wrote a long essay titled 'Inside the Whale,' about modernism, the nineteen-thirties, Henry Miller, and 'Tropic of Cancer.'
Keith Gessen
Cancer
Long
Inside
About
Wrote
Whale
Essay
Modernism
Henry
Miller
Orwell
I always worried that the creative well would dry up. I was sure that if I wrote a book a year, I would eventually run out of ideas. Actually, the opposite has been true for me. The more I write, the more ideas come to me and it gets easier.
Kelley Armstrong
Me
Creative
Book
Year
Worried
Easier
Out
Has-Been
Run
Would
More
Write
True
Come
Ideas
Wrote
Well
Dry
Sure
Always
Opposite
Been
Up
Gets
Eventually
Actually
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