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“I try to weave a secret into each plot. It's the thread that holds the rest of the story fabric together. In fact, it's the reason for the story. I hint at the secret early on. Immediately I want the reader to get the feeling that something here isn't quite right. It helps maintain the suspense if a puzzling element is introduced in the first few pages of the book, but the answer isn't revealed until the final ones. Hopefully, readers want to know what the heck is really going on, and it's the desire to find out that keeps them turning pages.”

Trying Book Reason Helping Feelings Together Desire Secret Hopefully Puzzling

Author:Sandra Brown

“I try to win every tournament.”

Trying Winning Goal Tournaments

Author:Karrie Webb

“I try to work all over the canvas at once, because I feel that the forces of nature are unpredictable.”

Feels Trying Force Canvas Unpredictable Methodology Forces Of Nature

Author:Nell Blaine

“I try to work and enjoy life, and that's about all.”

Trying Enjoy Enjoy Life

Author:Curtis Armstrong

“I try to work every day because you have no refuge but writing. When you're going through a period of unhappiness, a broken love affair, the death of someone you love, or some other disorder in your life, then you have no refuge but writing.”

Writing Trying Broken Periods Affair Unhappiness Disorder Refuge Love Affair One You Love Someone You Love Broken Love

Author:Tennessee Williams

Source: Conversations with Tennessee Williams

“I try to work every day, even when I'm not motivated. Ritual is very important to me.”

Trying Important Ritual Motivated

Author:Mel Ramos

“I try to work hard. I try to set a good example. I don't look at it as though I've got to be a leader. I just try to behave the way I think I should behave. If that results in a leadership role, great.”

Ifs Thinking Way Should Trying Looks Hard Results Leader Roles Example Hard Work Behave Good Examples Leadership Roles

Author:Matt Holliday

“I try to work hard. I'm really proud of what I get to do as a living. I still pinch myself. But I also know it's a craft, and I can get better at it and learn every time I do it. So I try to work hard no matter what the task is.”

Knows Trying Stills I Can Matter Hard Hard Work Proud Tasks No Matter What Crafts Get Better

Author:Benedict Cumberbatch

“I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.”

Want Trying Shows Watches

Author:J. J. Abrams

“I try to work out more now. I have been really thinking about getting into yoga, though. I can use that, believe it.”

Thinking Trying Believe Has Beens I Can Use Yoga Work Out

Author:Raheem Devaughn

“I try to work out my mind more these days. I try to eat right. I don't drink, I don't smoke, and I take the skin off chicken. But I'm not on no special diet. I like my steak and potatoes, ice cream, doughnuts.”

Trying Mind Special Drink Skins Work Out Ice Smoke These Days Diets Chickens Cream Ice Cream Potatoes Steak Doughnut

Author:Mr. T

“I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites.”

Ifs Trying Sometimes Running Hours Rooms Four Week Couple Weight Work Out Insanity Hotel Trainers Dvds Hotel Rooms

Author:Fergie

“I try to work the hardest I can without burning myself out.”

Trying I Can Hardest Burning

Author:Justin Kan

“I try to work with God as a partner.”

Trying Golf Partners

Author:Gary Player

“I try to work with people who you're not used to seeing in scary movies. I think it makes for a more interesting mix, when you're watching the movie.”

People Thinking Trying Used Interesting Seeing Scary

Author:Jason Blum

“I try to write 'and it's all very funny' after each scene description so that the reader can imagine the movie in their head.”

Writing Trying Imagine Reader Scene Description

Author:Noah Baumbach

“I try to write 1,000 words a day - about three pages. When I reach 1,000 words I feel good. Less than that: a failure. More than that: tired.”

Feels Writing Trying Three Pages Tired Feel Good I Feel Good

Author:Tracy Chevalier

“I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.”

Writing Trying Sometimes Certain Five Week Broken Amount Each Day

Author:Herman Wouk

“I try to write a lot and my process is kind of back and forth. I procrastinate a lot so when I do sit down to write, I'm pretty lazy at it. And it's such a frustrating thing sometimes - writing - when you don't do it all the time, you get that thing in your head that you have nothing to talk about and you can't write songs.”

Writing Trying Kind Sometimes Song Process Lazy Frustrating Back And Forth Procrastinating Frustrating Things

Author:Courtney Barnett

“I try to write about complex issues--young people in an adult world-- full of irony and contradiction in a narrative style that relies heavily on suspense with a texture rich in emotion and imagery. I take a great deal of satisfaction in using popular forms-- the adventure, the mystery, the thriller-- so as to hold my reader with the sheer pleasure of a good story. At the same time I try to resolve my books with an ambiguity that compels engagement. In short, I want my readers to feel, to think, sometimes to laugh. But most of all I want them to enjoy a good read.”

“I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.”

Writing Trying Use Body Today Language Technology Live For Today

Author:Dana Spiotta

“I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.”

People Writing Trying Real Character Flawed Real Women

Author:Emily Giffin

“I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters. I find flawed characters much more interesting than perfect ones and enjoy the challenge of making readers root for them in spite of their unsympathetic path and destructive choices. Life is about the gray areas. Things are seldom black and white, even when we wish they were and think they should be, and I like exploring this nuanced terrain.”

“I try to write about small insignificant things. I try to find out if it’s possible to say anything about them. And I almost always do if I sit down and write about something. There is something in that thing that I can write about. It’s very much like a rehearsal. An exercise, in a way.”

Ifs Way Writing Trying I Can Exercise Down And Say Anything Insignificant Rehearsal Insignificant Things

Author:Karl Ove Knausgard

“I try to write about small things. Paper, animals, a house... love is kind of big. I have written a love song, though. In this film, I sing it to a lamp.”

Writing Trying Kind Bigs Film Song House Love Is Animal Written Paper Lamps Small Things

Author:David Byrne

“I try to write about the stuff that torments us all.”

Writing Trying Stuff Torment

Author:Danielle Steel

“I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.”

Knows Writing Trying Helping Novel Events Genuine

Author:Lincoln Child

“I try to write art theory down and understand it but I'm not a writer. I don't want to impress people with my writing. I'd rather impress people with my ability to see and feel it and then share that.”

People Writing Trying Art Ability Share Impress

Author:Damian Loeb

“I try to write books that are different from the books I've already written. I think one of the thing I really try to do is reinvent how a novel can be written.”

Thinking Writing Trying Book Different Novel Written

Author:James Frey

“I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable.”

People Writing Trying Speak Emphasis Syllables

Author:Don Henley

“I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isnt a song that I need to sing.”

Knows Needs Writing Trying Song

Author:Valerie June

“I try to write each piece in the language of the piece, so that I'm not using the same language from piece to piece. I may be using ten or twenty languages. That multiplicity of language and the use of words is African in tradition. And black writers have definitely taken that up and taken it in. It's like speaking in tongues. It may sound like gibberish to somebody, but you know it's a tongue of some kind. Black people have this. We have the ability as a race to speak in tongues, to dream in tongues, to love in tongues.”

People Knows Writing Trying Kind May Use Dream Speak Language Sound Black Ability Race Taken Pieces Ten Tradition Twenties Tongue Black People Multiplicity Speaking In Tongues

Author:Alexis De Veaux

“I try to write every day until the book is done, but the exact process depends on the story and its structure. Sometimes, if the story is more linear, I write it from beginning to end.”

Ifs Writing Trying Book Ends Sometimes Done Stories Process Depends Structure Linear

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“I try to write every day. I don't beat myself up about word counts, or how many hours are ticking by on the clock before I'm allowed to go and do something else. I just try to keep a hand in and work every single day, even if there are other demands or I'm on a book tour or have the flu or something, because then I keep my unconscious engaged with the book. Then I'm always a little bit writing, no matter what else I'm doing.”

Ifs Writing Trying Littles Book Matter Hands Bits Hours Demand Little Bit Beats No Matter What Clock Engaged Unconscious Flu

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“I try to write every day. Sometimes the things come out well, and sometimes they don't. When they come out well you think, Wow, I must be really great; and when they come out poorly, you think you must be terrible, but the truth is that's how any process works.”

Thinking Writing Trying Wells Sometimes Process Terrible Truth Is Wow Really Great

Author:Richard Ayoade

“I try to write everyday. I do that much better over here than when I'm teaching. I always rewrite, usually fairly close-on which is to say first draft, then put it aside for 24 hours then more drafts.”

Writing Trying Firsts Hours Teaching Everyday

Author:Marilyn Hacker

“I try to write for highest common denominator. I don't write for dumb people. I figure if everybody doesn't get it, that's OK. Someone bright enough will get it, and that's who I write for. It's probably not the way to make million-sellers. What can I say? I won't apologize for trying to write for smart people.”

People Ifs Way Writing Trying Enough Common Millions Figures Highest Smart Dumb Apologizing Smart People Sellers Common Denominator Dumb People

Author:Paul Westerberg

“I try to write from a really honest place when I write pop music and carry the song into a more deep and more symbolic visual”

Writing Trying Song Honest Pops Visuals Symbolic Pop Music

Author:Lady G

“I try to write in a way where the lyrics have many meanings and you won't really know what's behind it.”

Knows Way Writing Trying Behinds

Author:Taylor Momsen

“I try to write in a way where you care deeply what the next paragraph will be. I hear the rhythm of prose and that, to me, distinguishes great writing from ordinary writing. By the way, I don't even claim that I'm good. I claim that I value it.”

Way Writing Trying Care Values Next Ordinary Claims Rhythm Prose Paragraph Great Writing

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I try to write in plain brown blocks of American speech but occasionally set in an ancient word or a strange word just to startle the reader a little bit and to break up the monotony of the plain American cadence.”

Writing Trying Littles Bits Break Strange Reader Speech Little Bit Ancient Block Brown Break Up Monotonous Monotony Cadence

Author:James Laughlin

“I try to write in the first person - the first person not of a journalist but of a carnivore, an eater, a gardener, someone trying to figure out what to feed his family.”

Writing Trying Firsts Persons Figures Journalist Gardener First Person Carnivores

Author:Michael Pollan

“I try to write in the morning when I'm working on a novel. You get up, you have breakfast, you read the paper, you make a couple of phone calls, and then you sit on the couch and start. I use felt pen and white notepaper.”

Writing Trying Use Felt White Morning Novel Couple Paper Phones Get Up Pens Breakfast Couches Phone Calls

Author:Carolyn See

“I try to write into the heart of experience. Then, through the experience of the writing, that heart reveals itself to me. To write it down for others, as a door to go through it they choose, is the price of the experience, the price of the ticket. This is the demand that God, if you like, puts on you for being an artist.”

Ifs Writing Trying Heart Artist Doors Demand Tickets Being An Artist

Author:Michael Ventura

“I try to write like the writers I admire - I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase... So Im always looking for that angle in my own work.”

Writing Trying Country Form My Own Records Admire Phrases Angle Twisted Rip Haggard

Author:Brad Paisley

“I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects like death and love and sex and violence.”

Love Writing Trying Bigs Age Sex Violence Subjects And Love

Author:Florence Welch

“I try to write lyrics that will be able to function on their own if they get separated from the music. But I wouldn't want to take anything away from poets, who work without the frames songwriters get from melody, and I think lyrics should be considered as their own thing.”

Ifs Thinking Want Should Writing Trying Able Poet Function Melody Songwriters

Author:John K. Samson

“I try to write my own music. It's a good way of de-stressing.”

Way Writing Trying My Own Stress Good Way De Stress

Author:Alexandra Daddario

“I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.”

Writing Trying Interesting Complicated International Women's Day

Author:Nora Ephron

“I try to write relevant songs about life and whatever I'm going through and whatever people are going through.”

People Writing Trying Song Relevant

Author:Gary Allan

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