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I wrote three mysteries and then a contemporary spy novel that was unbelievably derivative - completely based on 'The Conversation,' the movie with Gene Hackman. Amazingly, the character in the book looks exactly like... Gene Hackman.
Alan Furst
Character
Conversation
Book
Three
Mysteries
Exactly
Unbelievably
Gene
Hackman
Like
Contemporary
Wrote
Looks
Amazingly
Spy
Movie
Then
Derivative
Novel
Based
I basically wrote five books with 'Night Soldiers,' called them novellas, and came in with a 600-page manuscript.
Alan Furst
Books
Soldiers
Wrote
Came
Five
Them
Manuscript
Basically
Night
I wrote out little mysteries in longhand, and my mother typed them out on an old Remington.
Alan Furst
Mother
Old
Mysteries
Typed
Out
Longhand
Wrote
Little
Them
When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.
Alan King
Time
Oppression
Father
Thought
First
About
He
Wrote
Talked
Read
Because
First Time
Dickens
Things
Jewish
I always felt great about what I wrote for 'Newsies,' but 'Newsies' was a total flop.
Alan Menken
Great
Total
About
Wrote
Felt
Always
Flop
If you wrote a novel in South Africa which didn't concern the central issues, it wouldn't be worth publishing.
Alan Paton
You
Worth
South Africa
Wrote
Concern
Issues
South
Africa
Which
Central
Novel
Publishing
I did write a lot of TV themes - I wrote about 45 of them, and a couple of which are still reference and popular today, like 'Diff'rent Strokes' and 'Facts of Life.' But I was a limited musician.
Alan Thicke
Life
Today
Musician
Strokes
TV
About
Write
Facts
Like
Couple
Wrote
Limited
Still
Reference
Lot
Did
Which
Them
Themes
Popular
I have some realistic humility which comes from my first career as a writer. I wrote for other people for ten years. I saw some incredible egos not based on any reality. They were great when they were on top and awful when they weren't. I learned a lot about how to treat people.
Alan Thicke
Great
Reality
People
Treat
First
Realistic
Other
Humility
Incredible
Saw
Top
Some
About
Ten
Ten Years
Writer
Wrote
Learned
How
Were
Years
Lot
Any
Egos
Which
Based
Awful
Career
I've come to think of Dunnett as the literary equivalent of the Velvet Underground; Not many people bought the books, but everyone who did wrote a novel.
Alaya Dawn Johnson
People
Think
Everyone
Books
Bought
Velvet
Come
Wrote
Underground
Equivalent
Did
Literary
Who
Many
Novel
I wrote this book, '2030,' and I was careful in the book not to overdo the future because I don't think it comes that fast.
Albert Brooks
Future
Book
Think
Wrote
Overdo
Because
Fast
Careful
I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.
Albert Ellis
Listening
Analyst
Finally
Several
Criticizing
Objections
Wrote
Practicing
Were
Years
Articles
Quit
Six
Psychoanalysis
After
'Game of Thrones' is the broadest of narratives. I don't know if anyone in the U.S. has done a story on such a large scale before, both in terms of what George R.R. Martin wrote and what's on the show.
Alex Graves
Game
Before
Scale
Martin
Both
Know
Terms
Wrote
Narratives
George
Done
Anyone
Story
Game Of Thrones
Show
Large
Large-Scale
I think my favorite song is by Led Zeppelin called 'Good Times Bad Times,' a Rolling Stones song called 'You Can't Always Get What You Want,' and every song The Beatles ever wrote.
Alex Wolff
Good
You
Beatles
Song
Every
Think
Favorite
Bad
Bad Times
Good Times
Wrote
Always
Led
Led Zeppelin
Times
Get
Rolling
Stones
Rolling Stones
Want
Ever
Zeppelin
Historical fiction was not - and is not - meant to supplant literature from the period it describes. As a veteran of the Crimea, Tolstoy wrote 'War and Peace' to match his own internal sense of the truth of the Napoleonic wars, to dramatize what he felt literature from that period had failed to describe.
Alexander Chee
Truth
War
Peace
Veteran
Own
Sense
Had
He
Failed
Period
Wrote
Felt
Match
His
Historical
Historical Fiction
Fiction
Literature
Meant
Internal
Wars
Describe
Tolstoy
In the summer of 1866, as Leo Tolstoy prepared for his serialized novel 'War and Peace' to be published as a single volume, he wrote to illustrator Mikhail Bashilov, hoping to commission drawings for the new edition of the novel, which he referred to by its original title,1805.
Alexander Chee
War
Peace
Single
Summer
Drawings
Hoping
Volume
He
New
Wrote
Edition
His
Referred
Commission
Which
Leo
Original
Novel
Tolstoy
Prepared
Published
Illustrator
I did try to write fiction. I wrote 10 novels. And they were all just awful.
Alexandra Fuller
Try
Write
Wrote
Were
Did
Just
Fiction
Novels
Awful
When the Exxon Valdez spilled in 1989, I was angry. I even wrote on the back of my car, Boycott Exxon!
Alexandra Paul
Angry
Car
Back
Spilled
Wrote
Boycott
Even
I did go there later, but I hadn't been there before I wrote the book. Sometimes I feel like the imagined can feel more real than the real?
Alice Hoffman
Book
Sometimes
Before
Later
More
Feel
Like
Wrote
Real
Go
Been
Than
Did
Imagined
I was one of those kids who always wrote.
Alice McDermott
Those
Kids
Wrote
Always
Who
I wish I wrote 'Paper Planes' by M.I.A.
Alice Merton
Wish
Paper
Wrote
Planes
While working on my first five books, I kept wishing I was writing a novel. I thought until you wrote a novel, you weren't taken seriously as a writer. It used to trouble me a lot, but nothing troubles me now, and besides, there has been a change. I think short stories are taken more seriously now than they were.
Alice Munro
Me
You
Change
Writing
Seriously
Thought
Trouble
First
Nothing
Think
Books
Has-Been
Besides
More
Writer
Troubles
Taken
Wishing
Until
Wrote
Were
Been
Lot
Five
Than
Short
Stories
Short Stories
While
Working
Used
Novel
Now
Kept
I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something - no, maybe junior - and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.
Alice Walker
Myself
Book
Writing
College
Beginning
Gone
Think
Something
Poems
Had
Sophomore
Until
Wrote
Junior
Child
Maybe
Africa
Published
Actually
Started
My mother says I was writing before I was crawling. I wrote in the dirt with a twig.
Alice Walker
Writing
Mother
Before
Says
Dirt
Wrote
Crawling
Twig
My father died of brain cancer in 1991. I do not know anyone whose life has not been touched by the loss of a loved one to cancer. I wrote my book 'Gracefully Gone' about my father's fight and my struggle growing up with an ill parent. I wrote it to help others know they are not alone in this all-too-often insurmountable war against cancer.
Alicia Coppola
Life
War
Alone
Struggle
Fight
Book
Cancer
Father
Gone
Help Others
Others
About
Parent
Touched
Know
Wrote
Insurmountable
Been
Loss
Brain
Up
Gracefully
Died
Anyone
Loved
Loved One
Against
Help
Ill
Growing
Growing Up
Whose
When I was 18 years old I went to Shakespeare Company, the school, and I wrote a poem about my leaves - I felt like a tree that had no leaves. That is the life at 18.
Alicia Silverstone
Life
School
Old
Tree
About
Poem
Shakespeare
Had
Like
Wrote
Felt
Leaves
Years
Company
Brand loyalty starts in the cradle and ends in the grave, as I wrote in my first book, 'Branded: The Buying and Selling of Teenagers.'
Alissa Quart
Loyalty
Book
First
Starts
Teenagers
Wrote
Selling
Brand
Branded
Cradle
Ends
Grave
Buying
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