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One of my greatest joys is poetry. I read it almost every day, and I've even taken a stab at writing some of my own. A poem I wrote for my mother when she was dying really helped me get through that hard time.
Maria Shriver
Time
Day
Me
Every Day
Writing
Mother
Own
Every
Some
Poem
My Own
Poetry
Through
Taken
Almost
Almost Every Day
Joys
Wrote
She
Read
Greatest
Greatest Joys
Get
Dying
Really
Hard
Helped
Hard Time
Even
I wrote my own anthem: it's called 'Mariah's Theme.' It's on the 'Rainbow' album from '99. Back in the day.
Mariah Carey
Day
Own
Back
My Own
Wrote
Anthem
Theme
Rainbow
Album
During the year 1894, Pierre Curie wrote me letters that seem to me admirable in their form. No one of them was very long, for he had the habit of concise expression, but all were written in a spirit of sincerity and with an evident anxiety to make the one he desired as a companion know him as he was.
Marie Curie
Me
Anxiety
Long
Year
Evident
Admirable
Spirit
Seem
Habit
Had
No-One
He
Written
Sincerity
Know
Wrote
Pierre
Make
Him
Concise
Were
Very
Form
Them
Companion
Expression
Letters
Desired
When I was young, I drew as often as I wrote.
Marie Lu
Young
Drew
Wrote
Often
I sat down and wrote what I remembered about being nine, and that eventually became 'Amelia's Notebook.'
Marissa Moss
Down
Nine
About
Remembered
Wrote
Became
Being
Notebook
Sat
Eventually
I got into comics because I wrote an 'X-Men' novel for Pocket Books, and I introduced myself to the head of recruitment at Marvel. I'd heard through the grapevine they liked the book, so that gave me the courage to go up to them and be like, 'Hey, if you ever need a writer, here I am.'
Marjorie Liu
Myself
Me
You
Courage
Book
Gave
Books
Hey
Introduced
Pocket
Marvel
Through
Writer
Recruitment
Head
Like
Liked
Wrote
Because
Got
Am
Comics
Go
Heard
Up
Them
Novel
Ever
Here
Need
I wrote 'Don't Stop' just like I wrote 'Pumped Up Kicks' - I didn't try to make either a hit. I just wanted to write a song I liked.
Mark Foster
Song
Try
Pumped
Kicks
Write
Like
Liked
Wrote
Make
Up
Hit
Just
Stop
Wanted
Either
I could have pigeonholed us and wrote a whole record like 'Pumped Up Kicks,' and we would have been this breezy, nostalgic West Coast Beach Boys recreation band. That's not the type of writer I am. Once I try one style, I move on.
Mark Foster
Try
Style
Band
Move On
Pumped
Type
Once
Kicks
Would
Record
Beach
Beach Boys
Could
Writer
Recreation
Like
Wrote
Pigeonholed
Boy
Am
Been
West
West Coast
Up
Move
Nostalgic
Us
Coast
Whole
'Pumped Up Kicks' is written from the perspective like Truman Capote wrote 'In Cold Blood' or Dostoevsky wrote 'Crime & Punishment.' It's psychologically breaking down someone's state of mind and diving in and walking in their shoes.
Mark Foster
Perspective
Mind
Crime
Shoes
Down
Cold
Pumped
State
Kicks
Punishment
Someone
Diving
Written
Like
Wrote
Truman
Truman Capote
Blood
Up
Walking
Psychologically
Breaking
Capote
I wrote 'Pumped Up Kicks' when I began to read about the growing trend in teenage mental illness. I wanted to understand the psychology behind it because it was foreign to me.
Mark Foster
Me
Trend
Teenage
Pumped
Kicks
About
Mental
Mental Illness
Wrote
Read
Because
Understand
Foreign
Began
Up
Behind
Wanted
Psychology
Illness
Growing
I wrote 'Torches' before experiencing touring as a band. I really had no idea what they would sound like live, and that was something we had to figure out along the way.
Mark Foster
Before
Band
Live
Way
Out
Would
No Idea
Something
Had
Touring
Idea
Along
Like
Wrote
Sound
Experiencing
Really
Figure
I wrote and illustrated a science experiment book called 'The Mad Professor'.
Mark Frauenfelder
Science
Book
Experiment
Mad
Wrote
Professor
Illustrated
'Hill St.' was very good, but it was very impersonal work for me. I wrote about that place as if I was a visitor. It wasn't what my life was like. It was a great place to learn the craft of how to shape a scene, but I wanted a chance to write about more personal themes and obsessions.
Mark Frost
Life
Work
Good
Great
Me
My Life
Visitor
About
More
Scene
Great Place
Write
Shape
Impersonal
Obsessions
Like
Hill
Wrote
Learn
How
Very
Personal
Craft
Wanted
Place
Themes
Chance
The most difficult book I wrote was the fourth in a series of linked children's books. It was like pulling teeth because the publisher wanted exactly the same but completely different. I'd much rather just do something completely different, even if there's a risk of it going wrong.
Mark Haddon
Book
Difficult
Teeth
Books
Exactly
Exactly The Same
Something
Rather
Risk
Wrong
Like
Most
Wrote
Because
Linked
Same
Going
Just
Children
Different
Wanted
Much
Even
Series
Publisher
Fourth
Pulling
I wrote a children's book because children have the most open minds. They are the people who really want to learn.
Mark Kurlansky
Book
People
Minds
Open
Most
Wrote
Learn
Because
Children
Want
Really
Who
Of course, we wrote the songs accordingly and performed and recorded them that way. At that time, we really thought it was right, but you know, seen in retrospect, it made the album sound forced, and not really great.
Mark McGrath
Time
Great
You
Thought
Made
Seen
Way
Recorded
Songs
Performed
Know
Wrote
Retrospect
Forced
Course
Sound
Accordingly
Them
Really
Right
Album
Working with a lot of people at the same time is a task. I really like making stuff and getting stuff done. One of the things I really liked about Facebook was that I could always move so quickly. I wrote the original application in, like, nine days at the end of January.
Mark Zuckerberg
Time
Facebook
People
Nine
One Of The Things
About
Could
Stuff
Days
Like
Liked
Wrote
Always
Making
Lot
End
Quickly
Task
Same
Done
Getting
Move
Same Time
January
Really
Working
Original
Things
Application
I think people have found it very interesting that those that enforce ObamaCare, those that wrote Obamacare, are not a part of ObamaCare.
Marsha Blackburn
People
Think
Those
Obamacare
Part
Wrote
Very
Interesting
Enforce
Found
When I wrote 'The Good Fairies of New York,' I wasn't really imagining that there were fairies. Not in the way that I'm really imagining there are werewolves.
Martin Millar
Good
Way
New
Wrote
Fairies
Were
Werewolves
York
New York
Really
Imagining
I had a studio visitor ask me when a piece was complete, and afterward, I realized I was kind of annoyed by the question. I wrote down to myself, 'Nothing's ever finished' as an operating value.
Martine Syms
Myself
Me
Value
Finished
Nothing
Down
Complete
Visitor
Kind
Had
Studio
Piece
Annoyed
Wrote
Operating
Question
Afterwards
Ask
Realized
Ever
I didn't choose a word or anything. I just wrote the song until it stopped.
Marty Robbins
Song
Word
Until
Wrote
Just
Stopped
Anything
Choose
When Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, declaring that all men were created equal, he owned slaves. Women couldn't vote. But, throughout history, our abolitionists, suffragettes, and civil rights leaders called on our nation, in reality, to live up to the nation's professed ideals in that Declaration.
Marvin Ammori
History
Vote
Rights
Women
Reality
Independence
Men
Nation
Live
Thomas
Thomas Jefferson
Our
Civil
Civil Rights
Throughout
He
Leaders
Ideals
Equal
Wrote
Were
Up
Owned
Declaration
Declaring
Created
Professed
Jefferson
Slaves
One fan wrote asking for a very specific autographed photo. He wanted me to pose in tight jeans and boots and even enclosed a sketch of how I should dress! A lot of them just say they wish they had a girlfriend like me. They're very endearing letters.
Mary Frann
Me
Wish
Say
Photo
Boots
Dress
Girlfriend
Had
He
Like
Wrote
Tight
How
Enclosed
Lot
Very
Endearing
Just
Wanted
Fan
Sketch
Them
Asking
Should
Jeans
Even
Letters
Specific
Pose
I wrote for free for, like, fifteen years; I could redo my parlor in rejection slips. It would be surprisingly tasteful - they use nice paper.
MaryJanice Davidson
Free
Nice
Rejection
Paper
Slips
Would
Would-Be
Could
Parlor
Like
Wrote
Years
Surprisingly
Tasteful
Fifteen
Use
Rejection Slips
I wrote the chorus specifically for 'Same Love' as a narration of my story. I decided to release 'She Keeps Me Warm' as an extension of the chorus because I felt like there was more that needed to be said.
Mary Lambert
Love
Me
Release
More
Like
Wrote
She
Because
Felt
Narration
Said
Same
Decided
Story
Warm
Chorus
Specifically
Keeps
Extension
Needed
The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary.
Mary MacLane
Life
Time
You
Soul
Book
Emotions
Three
Year
Own
Analysis
Nineteenth
Months
Though
My Own
Written
Wrote
Understand
Diary
Just
Form
Then
Publication
Now
Portrayal
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