Dennis Lehane
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APPLEGATE I took lessons since I was little; I used to pay for my own singing lessons and take myself. Just ta... REBECCA FERGUSON Kathy Dewar, my high-school English teacher, introduced me to journalism. From the moment I wrote my... JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS The outcome was not what I was looking for in my first game back. I feel better than I thought I wou... AARON MILLER LYDIA DAVIS I read not for entertainment but to feel what the writer has felt while writing even though if it wa... PUSHPA RANA MAGGIE STIEFVATER DANNY STRONG PHILIP ROTH I was raised Jewish and bar mitzvahed. DAN FUTTERMAN LANA DEL REY I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper repor... JENNIFER WEINER As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off... JONATHAN COE MAYA ANGELOU DOUG FERRARI Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to ... 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In my soph... JOHN HAMBURG RUSSELL BAKER My writing regimen is not very regimented. I tend to be a binge writer, working sometimes in the mor... JESS WALTER I started as a writer; I started writing when I was little. The acting and directing was an outgrowt... MIKE WHITE After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting becau... IRIS CHANG ADELE I think I took my first one when I was 6 or 7, and I hit the post. And I hadn't scored from then on. VINNY LECAVALIER OLIVER SIM I almost drowned in a hot tub at a writing workshop once after I had some drinks without accounting ... TIM PRATT I'm a first - I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croa... OTTESSA MOSHFEGH DAVID BERGEN I put my hand up and he took my hand. I'd never had a handshake like that one. He smiled down at me ... HELEN NILES BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN WARREN ELLIS SAMANTHA MORTON We were third-and-long, so I was thinking first down. That?s really all I was going for. But I was w... JUSTIN BROUSE MATTHEW HENRY I was the - my trendsetting moment was my bar mitzvah had the first, like, temporary tattoo guy. EVAN GOLDBERG RUSSELL BAKER PATRICIA HIGHSMITH NELY CAB AASIF MANDVI In advertising, you have to do a lot of rewriting. But I didn't mind with my book because it's more ... GENE HUNT After college, I was burdened with student loans to repay, no financial cushion, so I wasn't in ... CHRIS PAVONE The moment it was noticed is the moment we took action and said we're not going to allow our servers... ANNETTE BOHLING CHRIS CRUTCHER XAVIER RUDD I saw myself as a writer, a novelist, even though I was living the life of a mother and housewife. W... TAWNI O'DELL MARIE ANTOINETTE I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I ... JOHN SHIRLEY When I was first writing, I was writing mostly about sporting events, which was really what my assig... JOHN TESH I was in law school at the University of Kentucky and realized I didn't really like law school, ... KAREN ROBARDS I started writing my own songs from the time I was a little kid. I would write my own lyrics to othe... BONNIE MCKEE My dad took me to the racetrack for the first time when I was 2 or 3... Anything with a motor, that ... LYNSI TORRES CARRIE-ANNE MOSS I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and... ERNEST GAINES DAISY RIDLEY I never took any writing classes or planned to write. But I was working as an advertising copywriter... EVE GOLDEN NAGUIB MAHFOUZ I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best. FLANNERY O'CONNOR CAROL BURNETT NATALIE BABBITT I was a guy who showed up for work and took the chance for finding out whether I could do it or not.... GARY DAVID GOLDBERG YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA I took my head up before I shot, and I knew exactly where I was going with the puck. It seemed that ... 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I took a couple of creative writing classes with Joyce Carol Oates at Princeton University, and in m... 
When I began writing in the mid-1960s, I thought it was not important for readers to know whether I ... 
It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I ... 
I found it really hard for a couple of years to do any writing because all I wanted to do was play t... 
Advertising was only meant to be a very small part of my life. I had intended that I would work exte... 
I was very naive, and I thought it was just a matter of writing my first book and sending it in, and... 
When I was young, I wanted to be a writer or painter. I was always writing stories, and I excelled a... 
All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. ... 
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but
I couldn't give it up bec... 
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because ... 
Every writing teacher I ever had except for one told me I was an awful writer, had no idea what I wa... 
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I coudn't give it up beca... 
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up bec... 
I began writing early - very, very early... I was already writing short stories for the radio and se... 
I went through my purple-prose phase in my songwriting... I was really writing between the lines. An... 
If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary m... 
When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it... 
I took a lot of writing courses. 
Writing, for me, was a feat of self-preservation. If I did not do it, I would die. So I did it. Obst... 
I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what ... 
I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my b... 
(It was) the first time I couldn't perform in my entire life. Took a sabbatical (but) didn't know th... 
I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a jo... 
It took my breath away for a moment, but I survived. 
I started writing at the kitchen table after midnight. It took ten months to finish that first book;... 
For a moment, I debated whether I should tell someone about the words I'd started writing down, but ... 
When I first started writing, it was me alone with a computer in my apartment. I hated the time away... 
I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stu... 
I've been writing since I was very young, even before I was a teenager. As far as I'm concer... 
The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that ... 
Heartbreak can definitely give you a deeper sensibility for writing songs. I drew on a lot of heartb... 
My writing has changed a lot. From 16 to 19, I've changed a lot. My kind of writing in the begin... 
I tend to push whatever is looking over my shoulder away when I am writing. It's once the box of... 
I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep ... 
Comics is still my first love. But I always did other kinds of writing, too, so I think of myself as... 
I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film... 
I thank Thee first because I was never robbed before; second, because although they took my purse th... 
The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that ... 
I had depressing thoughts that the theme, even though I had thought of it, was better than I was as ... 
This-our love for each other-was the most sacred of things my hearts had ever known. And I was willi... 
One thing I always did in my career was writing. I always was writing. I was trying to create things... 
My early life had a lot to do with my origins as a writer, but I didn't get into doing any writi... 
My first instrument was my voice. I was always singing and writing melodies when I was a little kid.... 
I was a queen, and you took away my crown, a wife, and you killed my huband, a mother, and you took ... 
I shoplifted. I was about five years old, and I took a candy from a store. We paid for three of them... 
I was actually sacked from my first job. It was at a workshop for a short film this poet had written... 
I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I ad... 
I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love. 
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It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in... 
There's something ugly about the flawless. 
That's the thing about being a victim; you start to think it'll happen to you on a regular basis. It... 
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Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like.... 
What I find is that we're all human beings and that it's all very similar, what we believe. ... 
More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators. 
In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged. 
I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game. 
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I always want to find the best burger in town. 
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To get what you want, STOP doing what isn't working. 
See, I can talk to the pretty man like a real grown up if I try hard enough. 
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Writing isn't hard. It isn't any harder than ditch-digging. 
A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket. 
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There's a compelling reason to master information and news. Clearly there will be better job and fin... 
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Both the Moral Majority, who are recycling medieval language to explain AIDS, and those ultra-leftis... 
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When I was a kid, we never heard of smog, ozone depletion, acid rain, green house gasses. 
I learned a lot I wouldn't have learned roaming the streets of Dallas. 
Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them.