John Legend
Related HARUKI MURAKAMI I've always been somebody who wrote down my feelings and I've always liked to write. I never did any... DANIEL POUND I'm always saying that my books are not autobiographical because they're not. I can't ch... CECILY VON ZIEGESAR I think suspense should be like any other color on a writer's palette. I suppose I'm in the ... JESS WALTER VICTORIA AVEYARD TONY KUSHNER I don't view my memory as accurate or static - and, in autobiographical fiction, my focus is sti... TAO LIN I'm not embarrassed by any of my music. I'll even own up to the old Backstreet Boys albums. JESSIE USHER URSULA K. LE GUIN PHILIP ROTH I don't feel when I'm writing that I'm drawing from any other writer, but of course I mu... CHARLES MCCARRY I'm an old school actor in the sense. More and more now, I play myself as I get older. Even as a... JIM PIDDOCK KEVIN MCCLOUD GAYLE FORMAN DAVID BERGEN TAYLOR SWIFT BEN LOVETT SOPHIE KINSELLA I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud ... TAWNI O'DELL GRAHAM SWIFT GARRY KASPAROV There are so many little girls who follow me and look up to me. I'm their role model, so I have ... JORDYN WIEBER CYNTHIA OZICK As an actor, I'm always just so pumped when I get any job. To be a working actor takes a lot of ... ELDEN HENSON I might not write fiction in the literary sense. But I write very well. My characters are good. My d... JOY FIELDING My older brother always tells me I changed as a person when I saw 'Ace Ventura.' Because whe... ELIZA COUPE I think of myself as a writer who photographs. Images, for me, can be considered poems, short storie... SAM ABELL I'm not an autobiographical writer, but I am a writer who deals with human emotion on all levels... P. J. HARVEY I don't go around thinking about regret; regret doesn't consume me as a person... I'm no... BARRY HANNAH Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed! I ARE I'm as heterosexual as any person need be. I'm open about my relationships - or lack thereof... HAL SPARKS People lose it when I say this, but I'm a novelist who doesn't read novels. There are lots o... KAREN TRAVISS CAMERON DALLAS PAUL AUSTER EL DEBARGE I grew up in this industry. I'm a third generation actor, and I believe strongly that life and c... ALAINA HUFFMAN PAUL THEROUX I kind of just write what I like to write. I'm thankful that readers of different ages seem to c... GENE LUEN YANG FLORENCE GRIFFITH JOYNER When I'm not in front of the camera, I'm just like any other normal person. I'm a studen... PARK BO-GUM Now I've devoted my life to making sure that I can be a trailblazer for any other African Americ... TODRICK HALL I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story. ZOEY DEUTCH If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feed... ADAM MANSBACH I'm not the most talented writer in the world. I know that. But I also know that I'm discipl... DAVID B. COE I'm the man who sits behind a table and tells true stories from his life. I'm also an actor.... SPALDING GRAY I just love storytelling. I write music to tell stories. So when I'm done writing a song, I take... HAYLEY KIYOKO It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised. DAVID LEAVITT PAULO COELHO ALEKSANDAR HEMON CHARLES DE LINT I never learned to be a writer. I never took screenwriting courses. I never read anyone's script... DEREK CIANFRANCE MAYA ANGELOU ISABEL ALLENDE J. C. WATTS ANTHONY BURGESS RAY CHARLES VIKRAM SETH As a freelance writer, I'd be asked to become an expert for various magazines on any subject, wh... JOHN HODGMAN Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. ... KATE ATKINSON I think any writer keeps going back to some basic theme. Sometimes it's autobiographical. I gues... JOE HALDEMAN MALALA YOUSAFZAI ERIN MORGENSTERN HARVEY PEKAR JOHN LYDON I'm always inspired to write, and it's usually my own life experiences that inspire me. KAT EDMONSON GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and t... KATE GRENVILLE When I'm not writing, I do a lot of research reading on the shape of civilization. Fiction can b... CAROLYN CHUTE KATE BERNHEIMER I'm always surrounded by good-looking guys, like Zac Efron, so I have to be with someone who'... ASHLEY TISDALE JOHN HURT JEFFREY DEAN MORGAN MARGOT ROBBIE JACKIE MASON JOHN TRAVOLTA The way I like to work is to attach personal experiences to what I'm doing, so it helps tremendo... MANDY PATINKIN I don't want to make any general statements, but I feel like so many stories that are presented ... ELLAR COLTRANE I'm a writer, so I like dissecting things. HAL SPARKS Well, any time I'm preparing for a performance or even a rehearsal, it's as if in a way, lik... RENEE FLEMING SAMANTHA MORTON GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Maybe it's egocentric or whatever, but when I'm playing Beethoven, Bach, Hendrix, or whoever... NIGEL KENNEDY As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write... SAMUEL BARBER Basically, I'm motivated to write about sociopolitical issues as well as relationships. I think ... JIMMY CLIFF I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in ... JESS WALTER Aye, well, I've got my garden. LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing. LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds, LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument. LIKE I I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ... LIKE I I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w... LIKE I I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t... LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start. LIKE I I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec... LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said. LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said. LIKE I Married to the Mob. LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge. LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i... LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick? LIKE I
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