Chris Pavone
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ERIC BROWN See, I have no journalism in my background, so I wasn't practised at research or writing non-fic... JOHN SLADEK FLANNERY O'CONNOR In a world where pleasure rules, people tend to be undeveloped in every way. " A House Like a Lotus MADELEINE L’ENGLE THEODORE STURGEON E. L. DOCTOROW BOB SCHIEFFER For me, being a writer was never a choice. I was born one. All through my childhood I wrote short st... LAURA HILLENBRAND I didn't have any writer friends in college. I was a computer science major, but I was writing a... WATT KEY I had to take a big risk by writing my young adult book series 'The A Circuit' and putting m... GEORGINA BLOOMBERG DORIS LESSING I don't feel that I wanted to spend my whole writing life - which is my life - writing detective... RUTH RENDELL I had three jobs in college. The best day of my life was when I paid off my student loans, on my own... JESSICA SEINFELD DENNIS LEHANE Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writ... VICTORIA GOTTI After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting becau... IRIS CHANG I've always been ambidextrous, writing short stories and novels, and I pretty much have been wri... CATHERINE RYAN HYDE One professor in college told me flat out I wasn't good enough to enter the creative writing pro... ELLEN POTTER I think most fiction writers naturally start by writing short stories, but some of us don't. Whe... ANDREA BARRETT BRAD PITT ALLEN WEST CHARLES BUKOWSKI I wasn't a particularly brilliant student, but on the other hand, I was very active in Student U... CESAR MILSTEIN I pretty much always knew I wanted to be a writer. I was writing goofy stories when I was 7 or 8. Th... ELLEN POTTER If I ask you to think about something, you can decide not to. But if I make you feel something? Now ... LISA CRON OLIVIA WILDE JOYCE CAROL OATES Writing a short story is like painting a picture on the head of a pin. And just getting everything t... REBECCA MAKKAI CHLOE THURLOW But when have I ever needed saving?TRACY WARD Become my muse. And let me paint you with my words... AVIJEET DAS LYNN COADY BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I've been writing stories since I was a kid. I love writing stories. RANDA ABDEL-FATTAH When I teach writing, I have a mantra: 'Be a first-rate version of yourself, and not a second-ra... DAVID MORRELL 'The Sopranos' all came down to the writing. I wouldn't have been on for as long as I wa... JAMES GANDOLFINI I went to Aspen right after school and got a freelance gig writing articles for the 'Aspen Times... DARIN STRAUSS KILROY J. OLDSTER PAUL AUSTER Writing has taught me a lot - though far from everything - about writing, so as time has passed, it ... CHARLES MCCARRY I wasn't always a writer. When I went to college and majored in fine arts, I was a painter. Then... JANET EVANOVICH [I want to repay my loans] as soon as I can. [Being able to do so] depends on if I can get the job I... TERESA NELSON I wasn't a class clown, I just found at an early age that I was able to make people laugh. So I ... ALAN ZWEIBEL I was so sure I wanted to be a novelist. I would spend hours and hours every day writing. Little sto... SAMANTHA SHANNON EDNA FERBER TOM PETTY HANNIBAL BURESS AASIF MANDVI RICK BRAGG I was always a writer - working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did o... BEAU WILLIMON I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowt... MIKE WHITE CHRIS CRUTCHER DOUGLAS COUPLAND We're trying to get kids to look at writing and what that creative writer has to do. We want to get ... FRAN JOHNSON Abstract conversations are my favourite, for they unviel true convictions. PARUL WADHWA In Mudcrutch we all wrote songs, and when it got to the focus on Tom and the Heartbreakers, I kept w... BENMONT TENCH I wasn't tempted to go into academia for a second. FRANCES O'CONNOR JUNOT DIAZ How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS To me, writing and composing are much more like painting, about colors and brushes; I don't use ... JAMES HORNER I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little... JAMES ROLLINS I wasn't really a dark kid, but I was in my head a lot. I got good grades all through my 16 year... KAREN ABBOTT My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my p... KATE VOEGELE ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES LYDIA DAVIS QUENTIN TARANTINO HOWARD SCHULTZ BROCK YATES I wasn't really writing with anything commercial in mind I just wanted to create some new music. BILLY SHERWOOD WALTER DEAN MYERS I don't think I was ever designed to be a ubiquitous worldwide star. I'm a singer-songwriter... JAMES BLUNT GREG LAKE When the time came for me to go to college, there was only one scholarship that my high school offer... CHANDRA WILSON I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in ... JESS WALTER PHIL KLAY WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper repor... JENNIFER WEINER When I was 18, I was moving to New York to start college at The New School. I had done a year of col... STACEY FARBER A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a c... SAMUEL MCCHORD CROTHERS LISA KLEYPAS JENNY ZHANG
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We all live in a universe in which we're either asked to or are forced to accept certain premise... CHRIS PAVONE A writer can spend a decade working obsessively on a novel, but in the commerce of publishing, many ... CHRIS PAVONE 'The Expats' is a thriller, but one that tends more toward general fiction than toward breat... CHRIS PAVONE I worked as a draftsman for the Department of Environmental Protection, and as a teacher, in N.Y.C.;... CHRIS PAVONE As a book editor, you need to pitch every one of your books again and again, dozens of times, for mo... CHRIS PAVONE Although no one loves a typo, it's close to impossible to eradicate every single little mistake ... CHRIS PAVONE What is it we want out of travel? Is it to take snapshots of ourselves in front of famous monuments,... CHRIS PAVONE At home, I tend to read print, and most of the time, that means recently released hardcover novels. ... 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I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and se... 
I started writing because I wanted to write scripts, but I wasn't very good at it. Then I starte... 
I opted for a freelance writing career. I was lucky enough to have the means to do it. 
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I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I wa... 
I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film... 
It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I wa... 
The fact is that if the writer's attention is on producing a work of art, a work that is good in its... 
Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, ... 
I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and though... 
Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn'... 
It wasn't until I was working on 'Tacky' that I admitted to myself that I was writing a ... 
Telling stories has been a compulsion of mine since I could physically say, 'Once upon a time...... 
The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five ... 
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the p... 
And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biol... 
I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they... 
I was not going to use writing for advertising or journalism. I would tend bar, load trucks, chauffe... 
I was so intent on trying to find a movie about an interesting life, but I wasn't living an inte... 
Part of Obamacare eliminated the private sector financial market that engages in giving college stud... 
if it doesn't come bursting out of you
Early on, I knew I had ideas, but I wasn't sure when it was appropriate to bring them to the tab... 
My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opp... 
Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. 
Ever since 'Strange Heaven,' I haven't really reread my old work. Not so much because I ... 
While I wasn't very good at much else in school, in my creative-writing classes or when we had t... 
Stories trace their roots to impassioned human interactions with the world. I always sense a storyli... 
I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I... 
Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover ... 
The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song toge... 
With sitcom writing, you're trying to write stories. 
One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things... 
I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I ... 
I was pretty anti-academic, and I wasn't much of a student. I had a really short attention span ... 
Art was always my main focus; I fell into writing by accident in the 1980s, writing magazine article... 
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Great characters- They are pivotal for a great plot. THEN a solid plot: Why then? If you do not have... 
I started writing the one-sentence stories when I was translating 'Swann's Way.' There w... 
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My son is trying to be a sports writer, and my daughter is a college student. She wants to be a come... 
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I was a good student, but a speech impediment was causing problems. One of my teachers decided that ... 
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I'd been in college studying English creative writing and history when I made the decision to jo... 
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You must have traveled all night,” she heard herself say. 
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I have my own demons and dark moods. It's weird. 
I find the ritual of shaving very relaxing, but for every day, it's pretty irritating on my skin... 
For whatever reason, we relate to anything godlike with an English accent. The English are very prou... 
Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives. 
I'm for comfort, not for style. 
The mass audience doesn't want to see you if you aren't perfect. If you don't look a cer... 
I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot. 
If you properly clean a room, it gets dirtier before it gets cleaner. 
The reason there's no modern-day Shakespeare is because he didn't have anything to do except... 
Stupidity combined with arrogance and a huge ego will get you a long way. 
There's a difference between doing things right and doing the right thing. 
The 21st century is dominated by networks because the introduction of the information age, we can su... 
I think the western is about people in harsh places trying to tame an unfriendly wilderness. Because... 
I always say that the times in my life when I've been happiest are the times when I've seen,... 
Having the right people around you all the time is important. I do take the acting seriously. But th... 
It connects humans to other humans in a profound way that I've never seen before in any other fo... 
Now I'm confused. Now I don't know what I want. 
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2009 was one of the busiest, most insane, stressful periods in my entire career. I was raising a bun... 
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Wherever it is you may be, it is your friends who make your world. 
There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey. 
In order to know your enemy, you must become your enemy. 
You can tempt me, desert me, or cause me great pain; you can create a dark world that my cause me to... 
I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers... 
seven times down eight times up like the Daruma doll 
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Jesus says, I love you just the way you are. And I love you too much to let you stay the way you are... 
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