If my writing comes to a halt, I head to the shops: I find them very inspirational. And if I get into real trouble with my plot, I go out for a pizza with my husband.
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Related As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that com... JOHN SCALZI Why try to fit in when you were born to stand out?” “I’m nothing special. I’m drowning,” I... IF I WAKE I’d scream, but I have no voice. The bullies stole it from me IF I WAKE You said I don’t exist in one life. What if each of these lives are designed to teach you a lesson... IF I WAKE I’m William James Carter. My friends call me Will,” he says. “I’m Lucy Janette Phillips,” ... IF I WAKE She has a long journey ahead of her. She doesn’t need to hear she will lose before she even begins IF I WAKE My real name is Madeleine Wickham, under which I write dramas with an edge of humour. As Sophie Kins... SOPHIE KINSELLA Inevitably I draw on my own relationships when I write, so if I'm writing about a fight between ... EMILY GIFFIN This is how I started: My mom was crazy for antique shops and junk shops, and my sister and I would ... HAMISH BOWLES My workspace is a white room with a big computer monitor and a light box. It can be very messy. Some... CATHERINE MARTIN If it wasn't for my trainer - who comes looking for me three times a week before 7 A.M. - I woul... SHERRI SHEPHERD If I put too much into my school, if I have a lot of papers to write, then the time with my children... BENICIA B. HERNANDEZ My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my... BARBARA KINGSOLVER I don't chart out the life histories of the people I play. If I did, I'd be in trouble. I wo... ERNEST BORGNINE If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste... GARY F EVANS... Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out... PATRICIA CORNWELL I don't know if I do anything to get into character: I just go with my gut. JAMIE BLACKLEY My iron game. I get into trouble a lot with my driver, so I tend to hit 3-wood off the tee. J. R. SMITH I like to wake up late, around 11 A.M., especially if I have been out the night before. Then I go to... DOUGLAS BOOTH Well, sometimes if I go out to dinner with my family, people will come up to me and put their hand a... ABDUL QADEER KHAN the only trouble I should get in for my writing is the trouble I make myself. LEMONY SNICKET I write in coffee shops, libraries, parks, museums. I get antsy and then get on my bike and go somep... PHIL KLAY I was going to change my name to Sophie Windsor, but then I decided not to. I prefer to go into the ... SOPHIE WINKLEMAN If it has something of substance and a platform that makes sense, I can share my story. You can get ... TIONNE WATKINS I tend to write in coffee shops and restaurants with friends of mine because if I'm at home, I g... CASSANDRA CLARE I get up around 7 a.m. That's very early for a stand-up comic. Then I'll have breakfast with... MARGARET CHO My mouth has a tendency to get me into trouble, but because I'm so small and I take on people wh... BRIAN MOLKO When I get out of work early, or if I have some time before I go into the studio, I go to Disneyland... BECKY G I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child. CARICE VAN HOUTEN I find that balancing my life with my work with the kids at St. Jude, working on books, working on m... MARLO THOMAS Find I can get my point across a lot better writing them down KATHRYN STOCKETT I'm trying to find out what happened to my mother and brother. I begged them to come here with us, b... AMY SHAW If I felt like a fish out of water in my family, I felt like a fish on Mars in Adam’s circle. GAYLE FORMAN I meant it to be jokey, but it came out sounding bitter GAYLE FORMAN I like my iPad very much. I like to browse online shops and keep up to date with the world, so I car... JUNE WHITFIELD My husband wrote the story for my first book, but then he didn't want to do that anymore. So if ... NATALIE BABBITT I just set my mind to go out there and play hard every day. Whatever happens, I think it'll be a plu... GUILLERMO QUIROZ I suppose I do think I go out of my way to be a very normal person, and I just find it frustrating t... KATE BUSH But I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anyt... CARL SAGAN I look at my paintings for a very long time before letting them out of my studio. I like to get on t... SEAN SCULLY My first four starts I've had trouble with that, and finally you just get fed up with it. If we were... JOE SAVERY Some enjoy their Husband Lord; unto whose door should I go to ask for Him? I serve my True Guru with... SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB The smartest thing I did in law school: asking my future wife to go out dancing with me. The smartes... BEN FOUNTAIN I'm not full on 'Jersey Shore' Jersey, but in my heart, my bangs are so feathered with t... MELISSA RAUCH I had trouble listening to adults who didn't really mean anything that they said; it was as if their... REIF LARSEN I love my pizza so much, in fact, that I have come to believe in my delirium that my pizza might act... ELIZABETH GILBERT he kissed me hard. "Promise me. Promise me you'll spend New Year's with me next year," he whispered ... GAYLE FORMAN If I were an Al Qaeda guy, I wouldn't go out for a pizza. BRYAN HILFERTY I've gotten into the habit of cranking out a set of push-ups before each show to get my blood pu... CHRISTIE BRINKLEY My mouth has a tendency to get me into trouble, but because I'm so small and I take on people who ar... BRIAN MOLKO I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and... ILLEANA DOUGLAS I have always been very choosy, but as you grow older, your tolerance for crap becomes less. The rol... KAJOL I got out when I was 24. Back then, I had to get on with my life, get a real job. KATIE MARQUARD My intuition comes up with better stuff than my head, I think. BEN WHISHAW My time is very valuable. If I had my choice between eating something like this and stopping to get ... AMY KELLER Really? If I could hate my trainer? That would be ideal. I'd prefer to despise this person with the ... JEN LANCASTER Sometimes I get a lyric, and the lyric, you know, comes off the page, and goes into my brain and com... CAROLE KING I still say if the ball is there to be won I will go for it, whether with my head or whatever, and i... JOHN TERRY Writing songs out of my faith was a real natural progression. I grew up singing in my dad's choi... STEVEN CURTIS CHAPMAN I was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, ... MANDY PATINKIN I like to go out if there's a party or go to the movies, but I just like hanging out with my bud... JEAN-LUC BILODEAU I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in ... JESS WALTER I love to cook. I love to cook for myself and my husband and big groups. I find it very relaxing, an... CARA BUONO I had to use my left, I was on the left side. I would have gotten in trouble if I shot it with my ri... LEON FREEMAN I tend to go with a daytime look, pretty natural, but I always fill in my eyebrows - I hate if I lea... OLIVIA WILDE If I decide I want to go canoeing, I've got a canoe. If I want to take my dog with me, nobody te... BURT SHAVITZ I start writing with only the vaguest idea about who my characters are and what is going to happen, ... KAREN ROBARDS I came to love, I came into my own. THEODORE ROETHKE I'm not completely vegan - my diet's probably about 80 percent plant based, but I do eat som... LAUREN BOWLES My goal is to write books that are quality books with very real characters and a gripping plot. JOHN SEARLES My doctors told me I would have to go into the hospital if I don't get it. ELLEN SMITH I don't have very many little fetishes, but the one I do have is that I like a particular mug to... AMINATTA FORNA If I can get my hips over, it's nothing for me to just throw my feet over my head and clear it. ADAM LINKENAUGER I tell the younger teachers, those with children, to stay away I'm radioactive. If I lose my job,... JOE BALTZ All of my countrymen are hoping that I win this fight. If I beat Morales, it will be a great honor f... MANNY PACQUIAO Do I have to use my feet? Can I knock the window out with my head? WENDY O. WILLIAMS I could never give up Mexican food. Nachos are usually my go-to if I'm courtside at an NBA game.... EVA LONGORIA I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. In other words, I lead with my heart... HOWARD DEAN If people are asking me for clubbing tips, then they're in real trouble. My clubbing tip is neve... SIMON BIRD I got words in me, Jess, fighting to find a way out. Sometimes there's so many words and they get so... CAROLEE DEAN I live very normally, I go out with my friends, we go to the movies, I queue, we go to restaurants. CATHERINE DENEUVE I sit with my toes in a brook,
And if any one axes forwhy?
I hits them a rap with my crook,
... HORACE WALPOLE When I found out about it, I couldn't get it out of my head. I started writing and shooting things, ... JAIME NELSON If anything happened, I think my husband would have to deal with that as the time came. CHRISTA MCAULIFFE I like to start. If they put me in the bullpen, I go out there and do my job. I feel very good about... CLAUDIO VARGAS I love my children and I love my wife with all my heart. And I would die, die gladly, if that would ... MEDGAR EVERS Usually I'll go to San Diego to hang out with my parents if I want to unwind. MARIO LOPEZ I started playing golf when I was just out of college and starting my career with KPMG. I took a few... LYNNE DOUGHTIE When I am fully immersed in my work of nourishing humanity, it fills my head with all kinds of feel-... ABHIJIT NASKAR I just go my own way. If my agent calls and presents me with something, and I find it refreshing or ... ADAM WEST Maybe I should have taken a few chances. That's not to say I want to go make 'Star Wars'... EDWARD BURNS Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from... E. L. KONIGSBURG If only I could stand on a street corner with my hat in my hand, and get people to throw their waste... BERNARD BERENSON If they can go out and buy my albums, I can at least make the sacrifice to holler at the few people ... FLO RIDA I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most e... TANITH LEE I love having a shaved head. I'd rather not deal with hair if I don't have to. I like not th... CHRIS EVANS Every day, if I could find someone to play with me. If I couldn't find someone to play with me, I wo... STEPHEN COLBERT Even when I was a kid, I had a good thing with kids. To this day, if I go to a birthday party with o... SHAWN LEVY My only writing ritual is to shave my head bald between writing the first and second drafts of a boo... CHUCK PALAHNIUK If I was in love with someone, I would get their picture out of the school yearbook and do portraits... LYNN JOHNSTON
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SOPHIE THOMPSON I like to sing along to Annie Lennox and pretend to be as sassy as her. SOPHIE THOMPSON My concept of a 'Doctor Who' girl was that you screamed a lot and ran around quarries in uns... SOPHIE ALDRED Puberty was not kind to me. I had acne, eczema and had a stye in my eye, so it was quite hard to go ... SOPHIE WU To me, bravery is to stand up for what you believe in. SOPHIE TURNER Cambridge is heaven, I am convinced it is the nicest place in the world to live. As you walk round, ... SOPHIE HANNAH On 'Game of Thrones,' all of my closest friends are 30 upwards, which is quite strange. SOPHIE TURNER I am trying to write novels for properly clever people, but I also want them to be proper novels tha... SOPHIE HANNAH In order to have an enemy, one must be somebody. One must be a force before he can be resisted by an... SOPHIE SWETCHINE I'm a proud New Zealander, and I represent Paralympics New Zealand. I love what I do, and I do i... SOPHIE PASCOE As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy ... SOPHIE THOMPSON The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least. SOPHIE SWETCHINE There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the la... SOPHIE SWETCHINE My friends would howl if I claimed I was androgynous - I'm not tall enough! SOPHIE MCSHERA Obviously I've had crushes, and I've tried to make things work with people, but it doesn'... SOPHIE TURNER If me and my friends are feeling decadent, we go for afternoon tea. SOPHIE MCSHERA I don't understand anyone thinking I'm sexy at all. I don't get it because, growing up a... SOPHIE MONK With 'Titanic,' you have all the first-class passengers interwoven with wonderful stories ab... SOPHIE WINKLEMAN All I will say is that I'm playing a lot of different roles that, to be honest, are more interes... SOPHIE MARCEAU Some days I want to look like a hipster kid, and then other days I want to be prim and proper. I rea... SOPHIE TURNER Keep breathing. SOPHIE TUCKER I've been rich and Ive been poor -- and believe me, rich is better. SOPHIE TUCKER I'm not cheap, but I am reasonable SOPHIE TUCKER Success in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends. SOPHIE TUCKER From birth to 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35, she needs good looks. From 35 to 55, good... SOPHIE TUCKER When I was fifteen, I got a Tiffany's necklace from the producers of 'Game of Thrones' w... SOPHIE TURNER After two and a half engagements, of course I want to get married and have babies, so I am going to ... SOPHIE MONK Try to exercise gentleness, kindness and humour, and you cannot go far wrong. SOPHIE WINKLEMAN I just heard a very funny story about somebody who died yesterday, I'm sorry to say so but it wa... SOPHIE MARCEAU I look back at that time fondly. It's something I never thought I'd get the chance to do, be... SOPHIE THOMPSON Seeing the work of directors like Romeo Castellucci, Ivo van Hove, Thomas Ostermeier, and Simon McBu... SOPHIE HUNTER As a child, I certainly wanted to have hair that I could grow long and flip around. I no longer want... SOPHIE OKONEDO From birth to age 18 a girl needs good parents. From 18 to 35 she needs good looks. From 35 to 55 sh... SOPHIE TUCKER Ghostly things don't really scare me, but they really intrigue me. SOPHIE TURNER And I think it's very rare to have good stories, well written comedies. SOPHIE MARCEAU I think I always wanted to be an actor - sounds a bit boring, doesn't it? And I pretended once t... SOPHIE THOMPSON Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones. SOPHIE SWETCHINE I race six events. I specialise in butterfly, backstroke, breaststroke, and freestyle, and it's ... SOPHIE PASCOE The brilliant thing about swimming is that, while you're doing it, there's nothing else you ... SOPHIE HANNAH I never write about CIA conspiracies or the FBI or mafia or anything like that because I just don... SOPHIE HANNAH Some writers, I'm told, look for their characters' surnames in telephone directories. I don&... SOPHIE HANNAH I think I'm not really into the handsome, chivalrous knight; I like the bad boys. SOPHIE TURNER I would love to work with Jack Nicholson, Saoirse Ronan, Michael Shannon and James Franco in the fut... SOPHIE TURNER I am a fellow commoner at Lucy Cavendish College. My husband used to be a lecturer at Leeds Universi... SOPHIE HANNAH On Leonardo DiCaprio: What is he - eleven? thirteen? I could play his nanny. SOPHIE MARCEAU You cold?' He chafes my arms. I haven't been cold since I moved here. This is something else. 'No. B... SOPHIE JORDAN An industrious sinner I much prefer to a lazy saint. SOPHIE KERR I'm not one of those girls who can think, 'Right, I'll put a scarf with that and a littl... SOPHIE WINKLEMAN Isn't it a riddle . . . and awe-inspiring, that everything is so beautiful? Despite the horror. Late... SOPHIE SCHOLL I know that life is a doorway to eternity, and yet my heart so often gets lost in petty anxieties. I... SOPHIE SCHOLL When I was younger, my mum used to dress me in, like, lime green leggings with a matching neon jumpe... SOPHIE TURNER Matthew Williamson has always been a favourite of mine, and I am definitely also rooting for up-and-... SOPHIE TURNER I can't do any more 'Peep Show' because of my loyalties in Los Angeles to 'Two And A... SOPHIE WINKLEMAN You spend a lot of time studying, and you want to do something with that. Something that's tangi... SOPHIE HUNTER The key is that people need to be saving in other ways, using investment vehicles, stocks, bonds, an... SOPHIE BECKMANN It's only in the 'fair' range probably because of real estate appreciation and stock market gains. I... SOPHIE BECKMANN You want to be doing things that educate them and help them understand their actions have consequenc... SOPHIE BECKMANN The tax code is just as complex as last year, if not a bit more so. SOPHIE BECKMANN San Diego is ranked below average in every category. SOPHIE BECKMANN The real damage is done by those millions who want to 'survive.' The honest men who just want to be ... SOPHIE SCHOLL