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Related I started writing because I wanted to write scripts, but I wasn't very good at it. Then I starte... JASPER FFORDE I think most fiction writers naturally start by writing short stories, but some of us don't. Whe... ANDREA BARRETT A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me... HARUKI MURAKAMI 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... MAYA ANGELOU If I get too old to write, or short-term memory loss - that was the one Philip Roth was worried abou... THOMAS MCGUANE I never got any training in how to write novels as an English major at Oberlin, but I got some great... ALAN FURST But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short s... JONATHAN COE When I began to write and used a typewriter, I went through three drafts of a book before showing it... JUDY BLUME I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a lit... CANDACE BUSHNELL It was always a dream of mine. When I was in high school I used to write poems for my friends. And t... CYNTHIA VELENO It was always a dream of mine. When I was in high school I used to write poems for my friends. And t... CYNTHIA VELENO I am a writer, which means I write stories, I write novels, and I would write poetry if I knew how t... ALEKSANDAR HEMON I tend to be more of a novel writer. In fact, some of my novels started out as short stories, and I ... BRUCE COVILLE When my writing really started to take off was when I made a decision that I would write only what I... DAVID FRIEDMAN I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker. CAROLINE B. COONEY My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's really where I would have liked to have gone. But ... ANNE M. MULCAHY I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing. DANIEL PINKWATER 'A Fair Maiden' existed in notes and sketches for perhaps a year. When I traveled, I would t... JOYCE CAROL OATES I write short stories. I write every day. ISAIAH MUSTAFA I don't just write hits for myself, or for other artists, or to just be writing it. I write it b... NAYVADIUS CASH I'd love to write some porn, but I don't know if I have the right engines. When I was a young man an... NEIL GAIMAN I remember that when I got to NYU, everyone was writing scripts. But I was 18 at the time, and when ... TODD PHILLIPS I've reached a point in life where it would be easy to let down my guard and write simple imagis... MAXINE KUMIN I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my wo... EVAN HUNTER For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's... WALLACE SHAWN I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and s... CANDACE BUSHNELL When I went to university in Colorado, I was encouraged to write very innovative, experimental thing... KATE GRENVILLE For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I... KATE GRENVILLE I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and ... EDAN LEPUCKI I started classical and operatic lessons when I was 8 and become an operatic singer and went to comp... CASSIE STEELE I kind of got more interested in writing after I turned in my last college essay and nobody was goin... DAN MILLMAN I started writing short stories. I tried writing horror, mystery, science fiction. I joined a little... JAMES ROLLINS I'm a morning person because I learned to write my novels while still practicing law. I would ge... STEVE BERRY I would get up at 3 in the morning and write. Or sometimes I would write at midnight. Or I would wri... BEBE MOORE CAMPBELL The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song toge... TOM PETTY I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels. J. K. ROWLING When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. How... TOM GLAZER I'm not a writer. I think I can write short stories and poetry, but film writing, brilliant film... SAMANTHA MORTON Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I... OCTAVIA BUTLER I hadn't ever worked with an 'editor' until I was 26 - although that could be partly cha... JENNY ZHANG I was a good student, but a speech impediment was causing problems. One of my teachers decided that ... WALTER DEAN MYERS I've always been ambidextrous, writing short stories and novels, and I pretty much have been wri... CATHERINE RYAN HYDE I paint very messy. I throw paint around. So when I let myself do the same sort of thing with my wri... ERIN MORGENSTERN There would be times when I got so much work that I didn't have time to write. School interfered... AMITY GAIGE I can write ten or twelve screenplays in the time it takes me to write one novel. This allows me to ... BENJAMIN PERCY I write because I have an innate need to. I write because I can't do normal work. I write becaus... ORHAN PAMUK The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time... JAMES ROLLINS I write by hand, making many, many corrections. I would say I cross out more than I write. I have to... ITALO CALVINO I don't write as much now as I used to, but I write. The lines still come, maybe periodically, a... JOHN TRUDELL Comics write to their point of view. If you're an exceedingly irreverent comedian, you've go... JIM GAFFIGAN I don't write romance novels, any more than Tom Clancy writes legal thrillers. Yes, I write about lo... NICHOLAS SPARKS The fact is that if the writer's attention is on producing a work of art, a work that is good in its... FLANNERY O'CONNOR I've been holding my breath the whole time waiting for the answer to come because I knew it would be... AMANDA BIRD I have been commissioned to write an autobiography and I would be grateful to any of your readers wh... JEFFREY BERNARD After working as a journalist I went to a writing program at Johns Hopkins. It was interesting becau... IRIS CHANG Sometimes I write less than I'd like but do research. Other times, editor's notes or a copy-... JANE LINDSKOLD I have little or no concern at how people interpret my writing, my only concern is to write it. ROBERT BLACK The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public... SIDNEY SHELDON When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of K... JOHN UPDIKE I'm most happy when I am writing at night, because I need space and time to write. CECELIA AHERN I got a job as an assistant film editor, which lasted for a few years, but I found writing incredibl... GARY HUME My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would wr... MANUEL PUIG I write for kids because I think the most interesting (and most humorous) stories come from people... JEFF KINNEY People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that n... W. P. KINSELLA As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately goin... DANIEL RADCLIFFE I started out when I was 29 - too young to write novels. I was broke. I was on unemployment insuranc... ALAN FURST Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row. RAY BRADBURY My first gig, I was about 17 or 18. But I'd been singing a long time. I got a guitar when I was 8, a... TOBY KEITH I would be pleased if someone would invent a pill to remove my impatience, moodiness, and occasional... ORHAN PAMUK When I was in my early 20s, my dream was to write mystery novels. I wanted to do what my favourite c... LINWOOD BARCLAY As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes. IAN HAMILTON FINLAY Write for joy. It is the *only* reason to write. Whatever happens to your books afterward, just writ... WELWYN WILTON KATZ I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I... PAUL AUSTER For a while, when I got out of college, I tried to write fiction. I'd grown up more around novel... DAVID GRANN Going on unemployment was a total low point for me, but it was also the point when I promised myself... PAUL DOWNS COLAIZZO I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been ... SATYAJIT RAY When I was hiking, I would bring the literary works that were about that place in my pack - and I wo... IAN MARSHALL My early novels were written in quite a dark place. I stand by them, but I would never write them ag... MATT HAIG I write to find strength. I write to become the person that hides inside me. I write to li... SHANNON L. ALDER I think that the style is the writing, a beautiful sense of style. And if you don't have it, it does... MARGUERITE YOUNG When I write, I'm still imagining a kid reading it on paper. I read e-books when I travel, but i... RICK RIORDAN I've been writing for a long time, and I've loved comic books for a long time - forever - bu... YURI LOWENTHAL There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography. PAMELA STEPHENSON I've always been somebody who wrote down my feelings and I've always liked to write. I never did any... DANIEL POUND If I think of a reader while I am writing, the only reader who really matters for me is my wife. It&... ALEXI ZENTNER There came this point where I sat down with all my notebooks and I had to start to write, when I tho... DAVID SIMON Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the wri... MARK TWAIN Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the wri... MARK TWAIN When I really want to learn about something, I write a book on it. Then the real research begins, as... JOSEPH CHILTON PEARCE I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I c... ABRAHAM PAIS I was born to write and tell stories, not through my lips, but through my hand. MITTA XININDLU In 1967, I signed up for the Army, where I earned an equivalency diploma, then went on to join the S... RICHARD CARMONA Most important of all, there is no right or wrong way to write - there's only what works for you... TAMORA PIERCE I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in ... JESS WALTER Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I've still got lots of stories I want to t... JOHN GRISHAM I think that the style is the writing, a beautiful sense of style. And if you don't have it, it does... MARGUERITE YOUNG A publisher saw one of my historical novels and thought I would write an admirable detective story, ... KERRY GREENWOOD Going on unemployment was a total low point for me, but it was also the point when I promised myself... PAUL DOWNS COLAIZZO I write every day. I don't have a writing schedule. I write when I feel like it. Fortunately, I ... EVE BUNTING
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ANDREW PRATT Most of all, be honest with yourself and make sure those in political office, our so called public s... DAVID PRATT We can bring together rich natural resources, innovative research and development, smart investors, ... ANTHONY PRATT I'm the girl who's like, 'Why wear heels when I can wear tennis shoes and be comfortable... KYLA PRATT Elections do have consequences, and those we elect and far too often re-elect have forgotten how gov... DAVID PRATT The one thing people seem to forget is the more oil we have, the lower the price and the lower the p... DAVID PRATT The only way physical comedy works is if you don't see it coming. And the harder the fall, the f... CHRIS PRATT We've been doing the Let's Talk About It series in this library for 18 years, so organizers knew tha... JENNIFER PRATT We always find something good out of the book. JENNIFER PRATT We have a large group of citizens who look for continuing education opportunities and they really en... JENNIFER PRATT Bridge is much more sociable than chess. To play bridge you have to be two, you and your partner, at... JENNIFER PRATT It was all very utopian, but it gave one nothing to get, to win, to hold onto. There were no distanc... DAVID PRATT I was an athlete growing up. I was a wrestler, I played football, so I can take a fall. I actually w... CHRIS PRATT I've eaten weird things through the course of my life. I've eaten wild game, I've eaten ... CHRIS PRATT As long as I keep getting cast, I don't care if it's typecast. CHRIS PRATT That?s what we had to do against them. They were in a zone and they were bigger than we were, so wha... DICK PRATT In the third quarter they just took us out. We were buffaloed. We scored six points, and they were j... DICK PRATT We had lapses in our defense, and Portsmouth took advantage of it. Barton and (Irish) did a number o... DICK PRATT It's raised as a question mark that the thought of a gun may have averted her attempted rape. It wou... 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