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Well, one thing I'm really interested in, when I'm writing, is being accurate.
The only thing that's helped me get through some really hard times was just being able to write and express - it's very cathartic for me. I'm hoping that, by writing and performing for other people, it affects them the same way.
Once 'Walk Two Moons' received the Newbery Medal, I decided to write full-time. Partly because there seemed to be an audience out there who wanted to read what I wanted to write, and partly because I could now support myself financially through writing.
Writing is very much a playground - an artistic playground. It's the most fun thing I do.
When I'm writing a song, it gives me more actual pleasure to hear someone else sing it than do it meself.
Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover.
Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wanted to preserve the spirit of my songs in Spanish. I am the same Shakira in English as I am in Spanish.
For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts - but then I stayed thin and someone else got all the muscles.
Buying insurance is no one's idea of fun. And it's especially easy to berate something as funky-sounding as writing checks to defend our neighborhoods against apartment-size rocks from space. But this is one insurance pitch that makes perfect sense. Ask the dinos.
Writing about corporate America had sapped my energy, disappointed the editors, and unnerved me.
Yeah, I shoot my mouth off. There's a huge difference between writing and thinking.
I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.
I have always loved horror very much. I used to write stories for DC's House of Mystery. It was one of my first jobs writing for comics, and I loved it.
Writing for adults and writing for young people is really not that different. As a reporter, I have always tried to write as clearly and simply as possible. I like clean, unadorned writing. So writing for a younger audience was largely an exercise in making my prose even more clear and direct, and in avoiding complicated digressions.
I was writing when I was very young, and then I became interested in everything - I wanted to do photography. I wanted to act. I wanted to write plays, and then I wanted to film and to paint, but I felt that film had a condition that reunites everything.
When I was first writing 'Feed' - which was the first book I published as Mira - I talked about it very openly on my blog, on Twitter, that I was writing this book, and it wasn't until after it was sold that I said 'Mira Grant' wrote this book. And the reason there was really purely marketing-based.
I made the choice not to have children, so I can spend my days just writing; there are no kids demanding my time.
I was really into writing short fiction and also photography when I was a kid.
There's such good writing now on television and I don't see a lot of great writing on films sadly.
That's sort of the amazing thing about writing something down and then having it printed and published - it's frozen. It's there. It's set. It's in ink. It's done. Nothing changes it.
I'm not standing above the audience trying to manipulate them as a puppet master or a trickster; I'm inside the story I'm writing and making and thinking about things very seriously and feeling very deeply at times, and trying to translate that into a narrative.
According to me, when a filmmaker is writing a role, a certain actor comes to his mind. Now whether that actor resides in Mumbai or in the Malabar is hardly of any consequence.
I just hate sitting and writing - I had to do that in school. Plus, I have terrible handwriting.
'Midnight's Children' falls under the genre of post-colonial writing, and there is a range of writers like V.S. Naipaul and Salman who popularised it. 'Midnight's Children' was incredibly important in this canon.
I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare it.
If getting a contract was relatively straightforward, writing fiction was far harder than I could have imagined, and there were moments during the long and torturous edit process when it seemed that 'Zulu Hart,' the first of the trilogy, would never be fit for public consumption.
Becoming a mother cannot help but change things. An author's life is reflected in their writing, whether they want it to be or not, and parenthood is one of the biggest life changes there is.
When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios.
As his celebrity grew in stature, as he transformed from line cook to chef at Les Halles and further high-grade Manhattan restaurants to charismatic television star, I kept hoping - foolishly, perhaps - that Bourdain might return to his first writing love, to the books he wrote and published when his audience was smaller but still devoted.
I would quite like to become a mainstream thriller writer, obviously, because I enjoy writing those stories, and it is the best way to secure your career.
I feel more pressure when I'm writing for teens. I'm very aware that my audience is impressionable. Therefore, I'm far more careful about what I say and the language I use.
I studied the short story as part of my creative writing course at university but then set off as a novelist. Generally, there is a sense that even if you want to write short stories, you need to do a novel first.
One of the things I try to do with my writing is try to evoke the spirit of the place. I think these things imprint on the landscape and the culture.
My writing is called exotic or avant-garde because I write about rural places. Has it really come to this, that if you write about the country you are avant-garde? How did this happen? Modern agriculture and spaces are still so relevant.
I don't reckon there are many writers who start out really expecting writing to be an attainable occupation. Well, I didn't. It was a pipe dream.
Writing, and its theatre of operation, is better than working shifts packing frozen sausages; that's all I need to think about if I'm having difficulties.
I have to have music on when writing, or else the silence swallows me whole.
I love writing about the summer between high school and college. It's the last gasp of really being a teen.
I can't sit and twiddle my thumbs. I have to start writing even if it's miserable some days.
For me, writing for younger audiences and writing for adults uses two different halves of my brain.
I primarily read fiction, and I read a good many wonderful books while writing 'The Visibles.'
My writing process is very organic. I start with an idea. I have the general story arc and the cast. But then I sit down to write, and things change.
I tend not to think about the reading public at all, or the business, when I'm writing.
I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.
I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are the things that give my writing power.
Writing is like sewing together what I call these 'buttons,' these bits and pieces.
Writing 'Rainwater' was a refreshing change of pace... a change of everything, in fact.
A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.
Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
I recognized that a lot in my writing I'm trying to show both sides of the coin - the sour and sweet. Iron & Wine seemed to fit with that duality and I thought it would be more interesting to call the project that rather than use Sam Beam.
I'm a professional songwriter - personal attitudes have nothing to do with writing a song.
I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies.
Anytime you're sitting there writing a book about yourself, it's a pretty self-fulfilling prophecy, I guess.
I made a decision when I started writing 'All is Song' to take the compliments I had for 'The Wilderness' and try to be confident and not overwhelmed by it.
I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
I've been writing since I was about thirteen but didn't start a book until 2007. I spent four years writing a sci-fi novel before I wrote 'The Bone Season' at nineteen.
I first encountered Bradbury's writing when I was pretty young. He's a great bridge author between young-adult fiction and literature.
Chay and I have a very normal approach to things, from writing our provision list to deciding the menu for dinner to seeing if everything is there at home.
There are places where writing is acting and acting is writing. I'm not so interested in the divisions. I'm interested in the way things cross over.
My writing voice is a little quirkier, more singer-songwriter-y than the Top 40 stuff I cover.
I have a lot of fun writing for artists, but I'm learning to apply that fun to myself.
Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.
I find myself consistently drawn to writing about intimacy and the way we construct one another.
When I'm writing something, everything falls into place. When I'm not writing, stuff keeps happening to me, and there's nowhere to put it all.
I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.
I gave up the notion of writing the life of Joan of Arc, as I found that there was absolutely no new material to be gleaned on her history - in fact, she had been thrashed out.
A lot of the stories I've read about myself, I don't even recognize who they're writing about.
If I'm really excited about a scene, I used to wait to write it, and now I'll just write it. When you do that, all sorts of awesome things can happen from just giving in and writing that scene you're excited about.
My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.
I was writing lyrics since I was nine years old, so by age 15, I was feeling pretty confident about my talent.
The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever.
Even though 'Glee' is sometimes a hard road, I am very excited about writing a multi-year arc.
Yeah, at home it's all moonbeams and puppy-dog tails, so I guess I do have a darker side - and I like writing about it.
The fun thing about writing a book with multiple paths and multiple endings is you really get to explore the characters and figure out their different fates.
Writing the perfect paper is a lot like a military operation. It takes discipline, foresight, research, strategy, and, if done right, ends in total victory.
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