Writing became an obsessive compulsive habit but I had almost no money so I thought about being an urban firefighter and having lots of free time in which to write or becoming an English teacher and thinking about books and writers on a daily basis. That swayed me.
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Related I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher. DAN SIMMONS What it takes is to actually write: not to think about it, not to imagine it, not to talk about it, ... LUANNE RICE David [Wain] and I had been writing a spoof of romantic comedies, and we started thinking about this... MICHAEL SHOWALTER I'm into books - I love literature, so I toyed with the idea of being an English teacher. I had ... TARON EGERTON Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I’m from America, I consider myself an Arme... WILLIAM SAROYAN When I was about 13 or 14, I had an English teacher who made a deal with me that I could get out of ... VICTOR SALVA Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a w... AVI When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an Englis... AASIF MANDVI O'Casey was writing about people in the streets and his mother and dying babies and poverty. So ... FRANK MCCOURT I think I'm an American writer writing about Latin America, and I'm a Latin American writer ... DANIEL ALARCON We have a host of English teachers in the family. My mum is an English teacher, and so are my dad, m... ALEXANDRA ADORNETTO It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in... YUSEF KOMUNYAKAA When I was an actor, I worked with lots of men who had a bit of success early on, who were very good... DAVID NICHOLLS I planned on being an English teacher, but I don't know where that went. JOHN KRASINSKI I used to think it utterly normal that I suffered from “suicidal ideation” on an almost daily ba... STEPHEN FRY I had my heart set on becoming an English teacher, but stumbled into acting after meeting a theatric... CHARISMA CARPENTER My initial thoughts of becoming a lawyer changed in high school as I became more attracted to math a... OLIVER E. WILLIAMSON I got a crash-course education in urban fantasy. I suddenly had to look up all these other writers I... CARRIE VAUGHN The neurosis in which the search for safety takes its clearest form is in the compulsive-obsessive n... ABRAHAM MASLOW Once upon a time, about 10 years ago, I thought maybe I could write a mystery series about a midwife... DEBORAH HARKNESS Catholicism is an obsessive-compulsive faith. ANN PATCHETT I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an ent... BEN CASNOCHA I wrote my first novel in the same conditions as most first novelists - I had a full-time job, I sha... JONATHAN DEE I never took any writing classes or planned to write. But I was working as an advertising copywriter... EVE GOLDEN I do some kind of work, whether writing or painting or recording, on a daily basis. And it's so ... DAVID BOWIE The biggest influence on my books was the fact that I had worked in a newspaper for so long. In a da... MAEVE BINCHY Even as a child Gates had an obsessive personality and a compulsive need to be the best. "Any school... JAMES WALLACE I had a high school English teacher who made me really work at writing. And once, when I got an assi... ANDREW CLEMENTS I think thinking about becoming an adult, and having to face up to your problems and face up to your... MARY ELIZABETH WINSTEAD There were a lot of things that were concerning me about this school before this. My son hasn't even... ANGELA WILLIAMS Personally I'm obsessive-compulsive about the placement and cleanliness of my things. CHACE CRAWFORD Screenwriting is always about what people say or do, whereas good writing is about a thought process... DAVID NICHOLLS I wanted to call her a bitch. I almost did. But I couldn't get the word out. I started wondering whe... KATE HATTEMER I think a liberal arts education isn't necessarily about doing something with your degree; it... SARAH GADON I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher cou... BRIAN JACQUES The first day I found myself writing down topics of things that I had thought about while I was in t... DORI HUDSON I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, b... ISABEL ALLENDE 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 don't know what they mean by an icon. I never thought of myself as being that. It seems strange to... BETTE PAGE After this, I took private lessons in Italian from an elementary school teacher. He gave me themes t... GRAZIA DELEDDA Now I am writing this diary in English, which for me is not the language of intimacy or love, but an... JASMINA TEšANOVIć Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting c... VING RHAMES As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a... MERTON MILLER I was angry about the fact that my father would beat my mother on a daily basis, that my mother woul... RICK JAMES I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinte... GARRISON KEILLOR There's a variety and depth to the song topics I get to write about in children's music and ... LISA LOEB I wrote some scripts on spec and was eventually put on staff, and eventually was made producer of th... LEE GOLDBERG I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gardenin... GATES MCFADDEN I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my... BARBRA STREISAND I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without hav... CLAIRE MESSUD I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I'd had an early stint in acting school, and there was something satisfying about becoming a cha... MICHAEL REDHILL I did not grow up thinking that I wanted to be an engineer. I had read some articles about girls bec... AILEEN LEE You see an absolutely brilliant film later, as an adult, and you walk out thinking about what to hav... ANN PATCHETT I've been writing for a long time, and I've loved comic books for a long time - forever - bu... YURI LOWENTHAL I've got lots and lots planned out, and other ideas knocking around in my head, too. I'm kin... CAITLIN KITTREDGE She kept encouraging me when I was young, and so I just accepted it ? this was what I was going to d... JUDITH ROSSNER Remind me to write an article on the compulsive reading of news. The theme will be that most neurose... ROBERT HEINLEIN I started writing at the age of seventeen because I had a teacher in high school who said that we ha... LAURENCE YEP There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls! TENNESSEE WILLIAMS Actually, acting turned out to be the perfect job for me, because I had a lot of different interests... JOHN C. REILLY Reading was like an addiction; I read while I ate, on the train, in bed until late at night, in scho... HARUKI MURAKAMI I love a lot of things, and I'm pretty much obsessive about most things I do, whether it be gard... GATES MCFADDEN I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college. CHRISTIE HEFNER My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's know... EMERIL LAGASSE You can't become the best teacher unless you have been taught by your own student, at least once. WOHI PURANA My father was an engineer, ... But I found out that the film critics for the Stanford Daily got free... ROGER CORMAN (The new boyfriend) knows I write every day for hours but has no idea that all I’m writing about i... AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS We're not doing away with free shipping, but we're adding a new option, which is free pickup. Free s... JENNIFER DAVIS This suggests that this is not random but is being done on an almost scientific and systematic basis... JAMIE SHEA One of the things I've always liked about my husband is he's very good at lots of stuff. He ... ALLY CONDIE I remember Tim telling me that he had an idea for a musical and he said to me that he was hoping tha... ELAINE PAIGE I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs ab... KAT GRAHAM I have a huge scarf from Hermes that I bought the day I signed my record deal. I had never had an He... LOU DOILLON We are men without ambition, and all we want is to be left alone, in peace so that we can try and be... UPAMANYU CHATTERJEE To me, the great joy of writing is discovering. Most writers are told to write about what they know,... TOM WOLFE Having an audience is almost like plugging me into an electrical outlet. People feed me so much of t... PAULA DEEN Vicky said she had been thinking about some changes, maybe not being so involved in the retail side ... MALAIKA GROVE I'd never had to shoot free throws in a situation like that before. I just went up there and thought... KARLA GAMBLE I became a teacher all right. I wanted to become a teacher because I had a misconception about it. I... FRANK MCCOURT Women tend to break the network of friends they make, but it is a habit that men have learned. It is... PAULINE NEVILLE-JONES I was always writing the books that I wanted to write, books that demanded to be written at the time... VAL MCDERMID I love kids, so two things that I have thought about are being a pediatrician or a kindergarten teac... KARLIE KLOSS I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit... MADHUR BHANDARKAR I never thought I would write about the Book of Revelation. It's so dense; it's so complex a... ELAINE PAGELS The first time I can remember thinking that I would like to be a writer came in sixth grade, when ou... BRUCE COVILLE I am an artist and have no right buggering about with verbs and split infinitives, which is what bei... RALPH STEADMAN Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. ... KATE MORTON I was kind of an outsider growing up, and I preferred reading to being with other kids. When I was a... ANN HOOD I thought at the time that I wanted to go into institutional sales, selling stocks and bonds to inst... HENRY KRAVIS One of the few ways I can almost be certain I'll understand something is by sitting down and writing... HUNTER S. THOMPSON My philosophy from day one is that I can sleep better at night if I can improve an individual's ... EMERIL LAGASSE I had parents who believed I could do anything - and I know how that made me feel. I think both my p... REESE WITHERSPOON There's nothing I dislike more than being in a photo shoot where they say, 'Be yourself.'... MARGOT ROBBIE Sixty percent of all Indians live in urban areas, but nobody's writing about them. They're r... SHERMAN ALEXIE Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that a... DEB CALETTI I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, ... J. K. ROWLING Here’s to all the places we went. And all the places we’ll go. And here’s me, whispering again... JOHN GREEN I'm not interested in dating a girl I'm not gonna marry JOHN GREEN The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend ob... JOHN GREEN
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