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“I wrestled and played football in high school and in my last year, I started as a wrestler and actually had a fairly good record. But I hated to lose. I always gave it everything I had which, unfortunately, was not as much as I'd hoped for. But keep in mind, I feel like I got the most out of my ability. One moment that was special above all the rest was winning my last bout at the Naval Academy to finish the entire summer undefeated. That was thrilling, but what's more, it helped me in prison because the first time I got knocked around by the Vietnamese, it did not come as a total shock.”

“I wrestled futilely, then relaxed as a vine wrapped three times around my throat and squeezed. Right," I choked out, and shut my eyes. "I'll wait here, then.”

Eye Three Waiting Throat Relaxed Three Times Vines

Author:Rachel Caine

Source: Thin Air

“I wrestled through many sleepless nights after God became real to me. I can only describe this period of my life as 2 years of mental agony.”

God Pain Religion Sleep Agony

Author:C.L. Cagan

“I wring my hands because I know that as a dude, my privilege, my long-term deficiencies work against me in writing women, no matter how hard I try and how talented I am.”

Knows Writing Trying Long Matter Hard Hands Term Privilege Long Term Deficiency

Author:Junot Diaz

“I wrinkle my nose, because I know already there's no such thing as boring texts. The e are only wonderful and more wonderful novels to read.”

Love Humor Hate Relationships Fate Men And Women Irony

Author:Lisa Gardner

Source: Kiss Her Goodbye

“I wrinkled my nose, trying to figure out what he smelled like. Not cigarettes. Something richer, fouler. Cigars.”

Trying Figures Noses Cigarette Cigar

Author:Becca Fitzpatrick

Source: Hush, Hush

“I write Not For the sake of glory Not For the sake of fame Not For the sake of success But for the sake of my soul”

Writing Soul Fame Glory Sake My Soul

Author:Rachel

“I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.”

World Writing Real Events Research Inspired Contemporary Seats Real World Pants

Author:Iris Johansen

“I write - and read - for the sake of the story... My basic test for any story is: 'Would I want to meet these characters and observe these events in real life? Is this story an experience worth living through for its own sake? Is the pleasure of contemplating these characters an end itself?”

Want Writing Real Ends Character Stories Life Is Pleasure Events Tests Sake Real Life Contemplating Worth Living

Author:Ayn Rand

Source: The Fountainhead

“I write - and talk - in order to find out what I think.”

Thinking Writing Order Talking

Author:Susan Sontag

Source: As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

“I write ... in order to help ensure that the teeming millions in the New World, for whose sins Christ gave His life, do not continue to die in ignorance, but rather are brought to knowledge of God and thereby saved.”

World Writing Helping Order Dies Christ Sin Millions Atheism Ignorance Positive Atheism Saved New World Knowledge Of God

Author:Bartolome de las Casas

“I write 1,000 words a day first thing in the morning but I cannot write 240 characters to describe a piece that I spent six weeks working on with a producer.”

Writing Firsts Character Morning Pieces Week Six Producers

Author:Daniel Alarcon

“I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours.”

Writing Sometimes Three Hours Five

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“I write 3-4 days a week, 4-5 hours at a time (with lots of breaks). My goal is 2000 words when I sit down to write and usually, I hit that, though it can take anywhere from 3-7 hours to get there. I usually know the basics of where the story is going, but the specifics just sort of come to me as I write.”

Knows Writing Stories Goal Hours Break Week Basics Specifics

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“I write [music] as a sow piddles.”

Writing

Author:Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say.”

Writing Stills Book Three Thirds Prose Three Times

Author:Bernard Malamud

Source: The People: And Other Uncollected Fiction

“I write a book of poems and then the characters won't go away so I write a play from that.”

Writing Book Play Character Going Away

Author:Grace Cavalieri

“I write a book over a period of months or years, and when I'm done with it, usually another year goes by before I see it in print. It's hard to be patient and wait”

Writing Years Book Hard Done Waiting Months Periods Patient Print Be Patient Another Year

Author:Margaret Haddix

“I write a column for The Village Voice, which I've done since time immemorial, and occasionally - and books. And I occasionally write minor notes for record albums and occasional articles.”

Writing Book Done Voice Records Notes Albums Village Articles Minors Occasional Columns

Author:Nat Hentoff

“I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.”

Want Writing Stuff Amount Someday Gathering Jinx

Author:Macaulay Culkin

“I write a line and then I revise the line and then I write two lines and then I revise lines one and two and then I write one, two and three and I revise one and two and then I write seven and eight and then I see that should be line four and I continually work it over as I go.”

Should Writing Two Three Lines Four Seven Eight Working It

Author:Edward Hirsch

“I write a little bit about what it's like to be a female boss in my book [ Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?] and the things I've noticed about that, but by and large, it's just a tough job in general.”

Writing Littles Book Jobs Bits Little Bit Tough Female Boss Hanging Out

Author:Mindy Kaling

“I write a little something every day, even though I don't write a song [every day]. Everything inspires me. I'll come up with a line, or somebody will say something that will trigger something.”

Writing Littles Song Lines Inspire Come Up Triggers

Author:Dolly Parton

“I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. Ive got a lot of material. But a book about me? It seems sort of odd.”

People Writing Book Seems Materials Odd

Author:Kevin Spacey

“I write a lot about the past because I really see things clearly in hindsight.”

Writing Past Hindsight

Author:Skylar Grey

“I write a lot and I will have some originals on the record. I think it is a mistake for an artist like me to think I am a better writer than Cole Porter. I think it is important to realize what my strengths are. I do like to write and I'm not shabby but I don't think I'm the most brilliant writer. I think it would be a shame and sort so egotistical to say I don't need these wonderful writers. These men created works of art and wrote hundreds of beautiful songs. It would be a mistake for me to say at this point in my career that I am so good.”

Thinking Men Needs Writing Art Important Would Be Beautiful Artist Song Realizing Mistake Careers Records Wonderful Shame Originals Brilliant Like Me Works Of Art Egotistical Shabby

Author:Michael Buble

“I write a lot by sound. One sound leads me to another. These sounds aren't random; they have their own logic.”

Writing Sound Logic Leading Me

Author:Kate Braverman

“I write a lot from instinct. But as you're writing out of instinct, once you reach a certain level as a songwriter, the craft is always there talking to you in the back of your head...that tells you when it's time to go to the chorus, when it's time to rhyme. Real basic craft... it's second nature.”

Writing Real Certain Levels Talking Instinct Crafts Songwriting Songwriters Rhyme Chorus

Author:Janis Ian

“I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule.”

Writing Goes On Schedules Spontaneous Revision

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“I write a lot more when I'm happy, because you're hopeful, you're motivated.”

Writing Hopeful Motivated

Author:Andrew Bird

“I write a lot of children's verse and I think it delights in the language. It pleases people. It's very musical. It's very lyrical and that's certainly a very important aspect of poetry. But I think that a lot of it is verse. I write well-wrought verse.”

People Thinking Writing Wells Children Important Language Please Aspect Musical Delight Verses Lyrical

Author:Mary Ann Hoberman

“I write a lot of lyrics and I'm involved in the producing process, because it's like, if I'm singing it, I want it to be something that I can relate to.”

Ifs Want Writing I Can Process Involved Singing Relate

Author:Lindsay Lohan

“I write a lot of material you've never heard that live inside my sadness. You'll hear a song that lasts six to seven minutes of just beautiful sadness. But I can't just go out on the stage to ask five thousand people to be sad with me for seven straight minutes.”

People Writing I Can Lasts Beautiful Song Asks Five Heard Sadness Minutes Stage Materials Thousand Six Seven

Author:Jason Mraz

“I write a lot of more instrumental music than I do vocal music. It's because I come out of a background of playing piano and then playing sax for a number of years. I kind of got into rock backwards. A lot of guys go into rock and then get sick of it and then go into something else. I came the other way, so I've always just had a lot more stuff lying around.”

Way Writing Years Kind Lying Guy Stuff Numbers Rocks Sick Backgrounds Piano Backwards Vocal Playing Piano Instrumental Music Vocal Music

Author:Tom Verlaine

“I write a lot of my best music in the car, like late night. Three, four in the morning. I'm in the passenger seat, I got my driver, my getaway driver. My Bonnie, I'm Clyde. That's when everything is just settled. In the daytime it's chaotic. Everybody just goin' nowhere fast. In a rush to go nowhere.”

Writing Night Three Morning Four Car Late Seats Drivers Chaotic Passengers Daytime Late Night Getaways Passenger Seat

Author:Kevin Gates

“I write a lot of songs about being in love, how beautiful women are but I've definitely experienced that other side of love where you're in a situation where you love a girl so much but you just know for a fact that she doesn't love you the same. "Grenade" is the extreme way of saying "I'd do anything for you and why can't I feel you would do the same for me?”

Knows Way Feels Writing Facts Beautiful Song Girl Sides Situation Love You Extremes Beautiful Women Being In Love Grenade

Author:Bruno Mars

“I write a lot of songs about love and I think that’s because to me love seems like this huge complicated thing. But it seems like every once in a while, two people get it figured out, two people get it right. And so I think the rest of us, we walk around daydreaming about what that might be like. To find that one great love, where all of a sudden everything that seemed to be so complicated, became simple. And everything that used to seem so wrong all of a sudden seemed right because you were with the person who made you feel fearless.”

People Thinking Feels Writing Persons Made Two Seems Might Used Song Simple Walks Huge Complicated Fearless Great Love Daydreaming Complicated Things

Author:Taylor Swift

“I write a lot of songs about my impressions from a man's point of view.”

Men Writing Song Views Point Of View Impression

Author:Kool Keith

“I write a lot of songs people don't hear. I really just enjoy the process. I finish 'em all. I don't think there's a whole lot of difference between the bad ones and the good ones.”

People Thinking Writing Whole Song Process Enjoy Differences Ems

Author:Bob Seger

“I write a lot of stuff, and some of it I don't even present to Judas Priest. But having said that, my first love is to play Judas Priest music.”

Writing Firsts Said Play Stuff Love Is Priests First Love Judas Judas Priest

Author:Glenn Tipton

“I write a lot on airplanes actually because it's completely isolating; there's no one to talk to, there's nothing to do.”

Writing Airplane

Author:Mandy Moore

“I write a lot on airplanes actually because it's completely isolating; there's no one to talk to, there's nothing to do. And then I think a lot of it sort of comes out sitting down with the people I'm co-writing with and talking to them about what I'm going through and what I want to say. It just sort of happens; every song came about in a completely different yet organic way.”

People Thinking Way Want Writing Different Happens Song Talking Sitting Airplane Sitting Down

Author:Mandy Moore

“I write a lot too, so I would like to write or direct in the future if I can.”

Ifs Writing I Can Direct

Author:Alexis Bledel

“I write a lot, and then forget what I've written, and then come back to it and say, "Not bad, I should do something with this!"”

Should Writing Forget Written

Author:Allison Joseph

“I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as a few more lines get added and a piece gets added, eventually the song pretty much takes over and you can't really find a way to change those things.”

Way Writing Kind Song Change Lines Pieces Couple Revealing

Author:Nick Cave

“I write a lot, poems and such, and when I look at it the next day, I can analyze what the problem is and find the solution. It's the same when I watch myself on the big screen, but first, my vanity has to go away and so I have to watch it ten times. But when it has gone, and I don't think my nose is too big and everything else, then I start analyzing, and I think it helps me to become a better person.”

Thinking Writing Helping Problem Solutions Help Me Going Away Better Person

Author:Roland Møller

“I write a lot. I used to write a lot of poetry when I was younger, write for my school newspapers. Also reading is very important because you need to be on your word game if you want to be a lyricist.”

Ifs Want Needs Writing Important School Used Reading Games Newspapers Lyricists

Author:Cakes da killa

“I write a manifesto and I want nothing, yet I say certain things, and in principle I am against manifestoes, as I am also against principles.”

Want Writing Certain Principles Manifestos

Author:Tristan Tzara

“I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways.”

Way Writing Looks Different Thousand Sentences Different Ways

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“I write a song because I want to. I think the moment you start writing it to make money, you're starting to kill yourself artistically.”

Thinking Want Writing Moments Song Starting Making Money Songwriting Songwriters Writing Songs Killing Yourself

Author:Pete Seeger

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