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“I wanted to work with somebody who seemed like he came from the same place that I did, which is that total immersion and learning about the world around, from this very gritty, dark side, and had access to that.”

World Wanted Sides Dark Access Dark Side Immersion

Author:Joe Manganiello

“I wanted to work with those boys (producers Andy and Larry Wachowski) because they're so eccentric and peculiar. Larry, of course, is halfway towards being a woman now. It's a crazy world.”

World Wanted Courses Boys Crazy Producers Peculiar Halfway Eccentric Being A Woman Larry Crazy World

Author:John Hurt

“I wanted to write a balls-to-the-wall supernatural horror story, something I haven't done in a long time.”

Writing Long Done Stories Wanted Havens Wall Horror Long Time Balls Horror Stories Balls To The Wall

Author:Stephen King

“I wanted to write a battle song for the Judeans but so far I can think of nothing noble and weighty enough”

Thinking Writing I Can Enough Wanted Song Battle Noble

Author:Isaac Rosenberg

“I wanted to write a big novel, something epic in scale.”

Writing Bigs Wanted Novel Scales Epic

Author:George R. R. Martin

“I wanted to write a book about poverty that didn’t focus exclusively on poor people or poor places. Poverty was a relationship, I thought, involving poor people and rich people alike. To understand poverty, I needed to understand that relationship. This sent me searching for a process that bound poor people and rich people together in mutual dependence and trigger. Eviction was such a process.”

Poverty Inequality

Author:Matthew Desmond

Source: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

“I wanted to write a book that imagined where advances in the study of genetics might lead us. Holman was the first character who came to me: I envisaged the misshapen offspring of beautiful, wealthy parents. Then I realised that he bore a striking resemblance to Toulouse-Lautrec. I developed that, made Holman an alcoholic who lives among hookers, an artist tortured by his disability.”

Writing Firsts Made Book Character Might Wanted Beautiful Artist Parent Study Wealthy Disability Bores Alcoholics Realised Genetics Offspring Resemblance Toulouse

Author:Jonathan Trigell

“I wanted to write a book that showed how the subjectification of the "the murderer" has changed little in over a hundred years, and to argue that this "exceptional figure" serves a conservative function in modern culture that bears closer interrogation than it has commonly received.”

Writing Years Littles Book Wanted Culture Modern Figures Changed Bears Hundred Function Conservative Arguing Murderer Exceptional Interrogation Modern Culture

Author:Richard Marshall

“I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we're sad, and being yellow when we're cowards, and when we're mad, we're red.”

Writing Children Book Wanted Emotion Red Blue Mad Mood Coward Yellow Rainbow

Author:Dolly Parton

“I wanted to write a book that would leave open many riddles and mysteries, even to me. Of course in some cases I do know the answers, but in many others I don't know and don't want to know.”

Knows Want Writing Book Wanted Courses Answers Cases Mystery Riddle

Author:Daniel Kehlmann

“I wanted to write a film and I thought the best way to do so was to train myself within the field... It was just like a cycle of people trying to make it, not making it, doing extra work, and it was pretty depressing in the end.”

People Way Writing Trying Ends Wanted Film Fields Train Best Way Extras Cycles Depressing Extra Work

Author:Michelle Rodriguez

“I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.”

Knows Writing Wanted Song Know How

Author:Fiona Apple

“I wanted to write a horror story. But in some ways, I have always thought of myself as a kind of ghost-story/horror writer, though most of the time the supernatural never actually appears on stage.”

Way Writing Kind Stories Wanted Stage Horror Ghost Ghost Stories Horror Stories

Author:Dan Chaon

“I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.”

Writing Wanted Literature Break Fables

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.”

People Feels Writing Wanted Pain Order Black Novel Endure Black People

Author:Octavia Butler

“I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody.”

Writing Said Wanted Novel

Author:Peter Bichsel

“I wanted to write a play about double nature ... one that wouldn't be symbolic or metaphorical or any of that stuff. I just wanted to give a taste of what it feels like to be two-sided. It's a real thing, double nature. I think we're split in a much more devastating way than psychology can ever reveal. It's not so cute. Not some little thing we can get over. It's something we've got to live with”

Thinking Way Giving Feels Writing Littles Two Real Play Wanted Stuff Psychology Taste Cute Over It Little Things Splits Get Over Symbolic Real Things Metaphorical

Author:Sam Shepard

“I wanted to write a song about sexism, but I didn't want to do it in a mechanical way and be like, "Don't be sexist!" because that's not how I talk in regular life.”

Way Want Writing Wanted Song Sexism Sexist

Author:Boots Riley

“I wanted to write a song that's known to the world as a classic, stadium-rock anthem.”

World Writing Wanted Song Known Rocks Classic Stadiums Anthem

Author:Joe Elliott

“I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.”

Writing Stories Wanted Attention Viewers

Author:Nigel Kneale

“I wanted to write a story that was different than what I've done before - so I decided to write dual love stories that will keep the reader wondering how the stories will come together by the end.”

Writing Different Ends Done Stories Wanted Together Wonder Reader Decided Love Story

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman.”

Writing Wanted Voice Missing Reader Angry Chorus Angry Women

Author:Claire Messud

“I wanted to write about Afghanistan before the Soviet war because that is largely a forgotten period in modern Afghan history.”

Writing War Wanted Modern Periods Forgotten Afghanistan Soviet Afghan

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.”

People Writing Wanted Belief

Author:Alexei Sayle

“I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible.”

People World Writing Helping Wanted Terrible Helping People Marvellous Persuading

Author:John Berger

“I wanted to write about my disorders for people like my husband or mother who don't suffer but have saved people. Mentally ill people don't have a choice in who they are. But those that stand by the mentally ill make an enormous difference. Even when I'm healthy enough to take care of myself I face constant battles, especially with insurance companies.”

“I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.”

Ifs World Should Writing Has Beens War Wanted Mother Should Have War Of The Worlds World War I Should Have Been Messed Up

Author:Doris Lessing

“I wanted to write about relationships. But I didn't feel I had the experience to sing about them in a deep way. Studying psychology helped me out in terms of my understanding. I still look through my old textbooks when I'm in need of inspiration.”

Way Needs Feels Writing Looks Stills Inspiration Wanted Understanding Term Study Psychology Textbooks

Author:Natasha Bedingfield

“I wanted to write about someone I miss - and even the ink refused to remember - so, in the end, I was left with nothing but empty pages; with the greatest words in my mind”

Feelings Poetry Quotes Relationship Breakup Hearts Love Quotes And Saying Wrong Love

Author:Laura Chouette

Source: Profound Reverie

“I wanted to write about the Korean War, but I had no entry into it that made the kind of sense it needs to make for a novelist.”

Needs Writing Kind Made War Wanted Novelists Korean Entry Korean War

Author:Chang-Rae Lee

“I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.”

Writing Whole Moments Wanted Life Is Literature Break Addiction Whole Life Breaking Down

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“I wanted to write about the third world and had the opportunity to go live in the trenches, so to speak.”

World Writing Wanted Opportunity Speak Thirds Third World Trenches

Author:Lurlene McDaniel

“I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African diaspora, people of this region, and throughout the south.”

People Writing Important Black Survival Tradition Black People Voodoo

Author:Jesmyn Ward

“I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories.”

Writing Stories Wanted Recipes Laundry

Author:Thomas Keller

“I wanted to write about women and their work, and about valuing the work we, as women, choose to do. Too many women I knew disparaged their work. Many working mothers thought they ought to be home with their children instead, so they carried around too much guilt to enjoy much job satisfaction.”

Writing Children Home Wanted Jobs Mother Enjoy Too Much Ought Guilt Satisfaction Job Satisfaction

Author:Jennifer Chiaverini

“I wanted to write an adventure story, not, it's true, I really did. I shall have failed, that's all. Adventures bore me. I have no idea how to talk about countries, how to make people wish they had been there. I am not a good travelling salesman. Countries? Where are they , whatever became of them. When I was twelve I dreamed of Hongkong. That tedious, commonplace little provincial town! Shops sprouting from every nook and cranny! The Chinese junks pictured on the lids of chocolate boxes used to fascinate me. Junks: sort of chopped-off barges, where the housewives do all their cooking and washing on deck. They even have television. As for the Niagara Falls: water, nothing but water! A dam is more interesting; at least one can occasionally see a big crack at its base, and hope for some excitement. When one travels, one sees nothing but hotels. Squalid rooms, with iron bedsteads, and a picture of some kind hanging on the wall from a rusty nail, a coloured print of London Bridge or the Eiffel Tower. One also sees trains, lots of trains, and airports that look like restaurants, and restaurants that look like morgues. All the ports in the world are hemmed in by oil slicks and shabby customs buildings. In the streets of the towns, people keep to the sidewalks, cars stop at red lights. If only one occasionally arrived in a country where women are the colour of steel and men wear owls on their heads. But no, they are sensible, they all have black ties, partings to one side, brassières and stiletto heels. In all the restaurants, when one has finished eating one calls over the individual who has been prowling among the tables, and pays him with a promissory note. There are cigarettes everywhere! There are airplanes and automobiles everywhere.”

Country Adventure Travel Train Hotel Airplane Automobile Restaurant Airport Morgue

Author:J.M.G. Le Clézio

Source: The Book of Flights

“I wanted to write and direct movies and not be forced to adapt them from a bestselling book.”

Writing Book Wanted Direct

Author:Francis Ford Coppola

“I wanted to write and then I saw Pierrot and I understand that I could express myself in a more... Also probably, I had an intuition that if I was going to only write, I will stay in one room all the time and never go out. I felt that if I was going to make movies, I would have to communicate with people and it would be good for me.”

People Writing Communicate Intuition Be Good

Author:Chantal Akerman

“I wanted to write and think. Activism is a displacing kind of passion.”

Thinking Writing Kind Wanted Passion Activism

Author:Randall Robinson

“I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of Wilkie Collins and Graham Greene, of Hammett and Chandler, seemed to offer me all the rope I would ever need.”

Needs Writing Wells Problem Wanted Form Deals Offers Contemporary Life And Death Rope Contemporary Society

Author:Ross Macdonald

“I wanted to write for Broadway.”

Writing Wanted Broadway

Author:Cynthia Weil

“I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.”

Writing Book Kids Wanted Honest Books For Kids

Author:Judy Blume

“I wanted to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever dunked french fries for a summer job or suffered under the despotic rule of a tyrannical chef or boobish owner.”

Writing Wanted Jobs Language Secret Summer Cooks Owners Chef Fries Kitchen Confidential French Fries

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“I wanted to write in you.”

Go Ask Alice

Author:Beatrice Sparks

“I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time.”

Thinking Writing Long Wanted Night Long Time Every Night Night Time

Author:Jacqueline Susann

“I wanted to write music, and cook, and play cards, and have a nice time.”

Writing Play Wanted Nice Cards Cooks Nice Time

Author:Richard Rodney Bennett

“I wanted to write not exclusively for (or against) poets or scholars, though many of them are people, too! But that was not my primary audience. It was that person you like who tells you they don't get poetry, and you think to yourself, aw man, what can I do for this good person?”

People Thinking Men Writing Audience Poet Scholar Good Person

Author:Matthew Zapruder

“I wanted to write poetry almost a little more than I wanted to eat.”

Writing Littles Wanted

Author:Paul Engle

“I wanted to write rather than do anything else. But 'cause I left school at 15, I didn't know what a noun was, still don't.”

Knows Writing Stills Wanted School Left Causes Nouns

Author:Nick Frost

“I wanted to write some lyrics that had some meaning to them, lyrics that were meaningful to me and hopefully people can take something from that.”

People Writing Wanted Meaningful Hopefully

Author:Adam Rich

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