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Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all.
Mary MacLane
Truth
Myself
Book
Neither
All Things
Never
Names
Remotely
Wrote
Well
Call
Vulgar
Always
Am
Even
Things
Suggestive
I loved Frances Hodgson Burnett, who wrote 'The Little Princess' and 'The Secret Garden.' And I loved the 'Little House on the Prairie' books by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Mary Pope Osborne
Garden
Secret
Wilder
Books
Laura
Princess
House
Wrote
Prairie
Burnett
Loved
Little
Who
I discovered writing children's books was a way to keep living in my imagination like a child. So I wrote a number of books before I started 'Magic Tree House.' Then, once I got that, I never looked back because I could be somewhere different in every single book.
Mary Pope Osborne
Book
Writing
Somewhere
Single
Before
Living
Every
Imagination
Tree
Back
Books
Once
Way
Magic
Could
Never
Like
Looked
House
Wrote
Because
Got
Discovered
Child
Children
Different
Then
Keep
Started
Number
I've had battles with writers who live in L.A. and were writing southern characters, because they felt like if they wrote 'Sugar' and 'Honey' at the end of every sentence, that would make it southern.
Mary Steenburgen
Writing
Live
Every
Sugar
Honey
Battles
Characters
Would
Writers
Had
Like
Wrote
Make
Because
Felt
Were
End
Southern
Sentence
Who
I wrote my first song when I was 54 years old.
Mary Steenburgen
Song
Old
First
Wrote
Years
I was an English major in college, so I really liked spoken word and poetry; it was what I did before I wrote music.
Mat Kearney
Music
Word
College
Before
Poetry
Spoken
Spoken Word
Major
Liked
Wrote
Did
Really
English
English Major
I didn't know Michael Hastings very well, but one thing about him was always obvious - he was born to be in the news business, he loved it, he was made for it. He wrote about Iraq and Afghanistan as places he had always been destined to visit.
Matt Taibbi
News
Business
Made
Destined
Visit
One Thing
Born
About
Had
He
Know
Wrote
Obvious
Well
Him
Always
Been
Iraq
Very
Michael
Afghanistan
Loved
Places
News Business
Thing
If I wrote in Jacob Riis' time, I'd be writing about teeming slums in our cities and kids dying of tuberculosis or outhouses in Philadelphia or kids losing their toes because they were living in homes without heat. He took on a battle in 'The Battle with the Slums' - and we won.
Matthew Desmond
Time
Battle
Writing
Losing
Living
Teeming
Took
Our
Kids
Cities
About
Slums
He
Wrote
Because
Without
Were
Won
Heat
Tuberculosis
Jacob
Dying
Toes
Homes
Philadelphia
If I wrote in Michael Harrington's time, roughly 50 years later when he published 'The Other America', I'd still be writing about poverty and also entrenched racial injustice.
Matthew Desmond
Time
Injustice
Writing
Poverty
Other
Later
About
Entrenched
He
Also
Wrote
Still
Years
Michael
America
Racial
Roughly
Published
There's a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What's the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it's exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That's really cool. That's the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.
Matthew McConaughey
Try
Before
Down
Compliment
Exactly
Exactly What
Between
Wrote
Read
Edited
Camera
Goal
Review
Diary
Close
Gets
Closing
Want
Biggest
Really
Cool
Gap
Gaps
Ever
Right
Filming
Most of the songs I wrote are personal.
Matthew Morrison
Songs
Most
Wrote
Personal
When we write, we complement each other. We wrote six songs, Barry and I, while Robin was ill during the American tour, and they were terrible until Robin came back, and then everything worked out.
Maurice Gibb
Other
Complement
Back
Everything
Out
Write
Tour
Songs
Until
Wrote
Terrible
Robin
Came
Were
American
Six
While
Then
Worked
Ill
Barry
Each
Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess!
Maurice Ravel
Remember
Princess
Dead
Wrote
I wrote 'The Zombie Survival Guide' because I wanted to read it, and nobody else was writing it. All I've been doing with everything I've written is answering questions that I had.
Max Brooks
Survival
Writing
Else
Everything
Guide
Had
Written
Nobody
Nobody Else
Wrote
Read
Because
Answering
Doing
Been
Questions
Wanted
Zombie
I think there's a poet who wrote once a tragedy by Shakespeare, a symphony by Beethoven and a thunderstorm are based on the same elements. I think that's a beautiful line.
Maximilian Schell
Beautiful
Poet
Think
Symphony
Once
Shakespeare
Thunderstorm
Wrote
Line
Beethoven
Tragedy
Same
Who
Elements
Based
All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that you have to change the character a little bit in case your friend or your relative reads the book, because you don't want them to know you wrote about them... They might get mad.
Meg Cabot
Life
Character
You
Change
Book
People
Real Life
Relative
Bit
Mad
Characters
About
Case
Know
Wrote
Because
Reads
Real
Friend
Get
Want
Little
Little Bit
Them
Might
Your
Based
A lot of people think I came out of nowhere. When you start as a songwriter, nobody knows who you are. I met the guy who wrote 'Yeah' by Usher, which was a huge smash, and nobody knew who he was.
Meghan Trainor
You
People
Met
Think
Out
Guy
Songwriter
He
Knew
Nobody
Smash
Wrote
Knows
Yeah
Came
Lot
Huge
Which
Who
Usher
Nowhere
Start
See, I never wrote arrangements for the band for Judy Garland; I did strictly special material, special lyrics, put together all of her medleys.
Mel Torme
Together
Band
Strictly
Lyrics
See
Never
Put
Wrote
Arrangements
Material
Judy
Judy Garland
Did
Special
Garland
Her
I wrote a lot of plays when I was little, and I made everyone in the neighborhood perform them with me. I was probably a really annoying friend to have when I was little.
Melissa Ordway
Me
Made
Everyone
Neighborhood
Perform
Annoying
Wrote
Lot
Friend
Little
Them
Really
Plays
Well, I never got into the young adult headspace. With 'Twilight,' they are pretty adult themes, aside from maybe the first one, but even that. They're very adult themes, actually, particularly as the characters age. I never wrote for young adults. I wrote for myself, as an audience.
Melissa Rosenberg
Myself
Age
First
Young
Characters
Pretty
Adult
Never
Particularly
Wrote
Well
First One
Audience
Got
Very
Maybe
Young Adult
Young Adults
Aside
Themes
Even
Twilight
Actually
I wrote a pilot for myself. It's about a Latina actress trying to make it in Hollywood. It's pretty funny.
Melonie Diaz
Funny
Myself
Pilot
Latina
Pretty
About
Wrote
Make
Trying
Hollywood
Actress
I wrote a post about wanting to buy a banjo - a $300 banjo, which is a lot of money, and I don't play instruments; I don't know anything about music. I like music, and I like banjos, and I think I probably heard Steve Martin playing, and I said, 'I could do that.' And I said to my husband, I said, 'Ben, can I buy a banjo?' And he's like, 'No.'
Mena Grabowski Trott
Buy
Music
Money
Post
Husband
Think
About
Martin
Could
He
Like
Know
Steve
Steve Martin
Wrote
Instruments
Said
Heard
Lot
Banjo
Wanting
Anything
Which
Play
Playing
Ben
People wrote so negatively about me, but generally, the people who are familiar with football know my strengths and abilities.
Mesut Ozil
Me
People
Negatively
Ability
About
Generally
Football
Know
Wrote
Familiar
Who
Strengths
More than once at TechCrunch, we made AOL extremely uncomfortable with things that we wrote. But they never ordered us to write or not write about something because they understood that not only would we not comply, we'd write a post about the whole thing.
Michael Arrington
Post
Made
Once
Extremely
Would
Comply
About
Something
More
Only
Uncomfortable
Write
Never
Wrote
Because
Understood
Than
Ordered
Us
Whole
Thing
Things
I wrote my first real murder story as a journalist for the Daytona Beach News Journal in 1980. It was about a body found in the woods. Later, the murder was linked to a serial killer who was later caught and executed for his crimes.
Michael Connelly
News
Journalist
First
Crimes
Later
Killer
About
Beach
Journal
Daytona
Executed
Wrote
Caught
Real
His
Linked
Woods
Story
Body
Who
Serial
Found
My favorite is 'The Last Coyote.' I'm not saying that's the best book I've written; I hope I haven't written my best book yet, but that one was the first book I wrote as a full-time author, with my full-time focus. I have a nostalgic feeling about it.
Michael Connelly
Hope
Saying
Best
Book
Focus
First
Feeling
Favorite
About
Written
Wrote
Coyote
Author
Nostalgic
Full-Time
Last
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