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“I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.”

Writing Stories Lines Reader Trials Contemporary Triumph Between The Lines Contemporary Life

Author:Karen Kingsbury

“I write about things that are important for us as Americans. I'm concerned about al-Qaeda sneaking across the border with the illegal immigrants that are using the coyotes to get across the border. And that's not a Democrat or Republican issue, that's a national security issue”

Writing Important Issues Security Republican Concerned Democrat Borders Immigrants Illegal Als National Security Al Qaeda Illegal Immigrants Coyotes

Author:Brad Thor

“I write about things that scare me. I've never written a snake story in my life. I myself have never written a story about snakes because they don't scare me. I write about rats because they scare the hell out of me.”

Writing Stories Hell Written Scare Rats Snakes

Author:Stephen King

“I write about things that tear me apart, and it's all very personal to me. It's funny to hear people disassemble the lyrics. If they get it wrong, it almost means more to me, because it's morphed into something that is meaningful to them.”

People Ifs Writing Mean Tears Meaningful

Author:Robby Takac

“I write about this in The Last Temple, the early church knew that Christ has risen from the dead, and so they didn't live their lives with earthly vanities, but they lived their lives for eternal verities. And I think that if we might catch that enthusiasm and the reality of resurrection, we would live by a completely different standard as well.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Wells Different Reality Might Lasts Christ Church Eternal Standards Enthusiasm Vanity Temples Live By Resurrection Risen

Author:Hank Hanegraaff

“I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West.”

Writing Machines West Ancient Rome Time Machine Ancient Rome Wild West

Author:Caroline Lawrence

“I write about true-life type things.”

Writing Type True Life

Author:Karen Kingsbury

“I write about violence as naturally as Jane Austen wrote about manners. Violence shapes and obsesses our society, and if we do not stop being violent we have no future.”

Ifs Writing Violence Shapes Violent Manners Our Society Negativity Jane Austen

Author:Edward Bond

Source: Bond Plays: 2: Lear; The Sea; Narrow Road to the Deep North; Black Mass; Passion

“I write about what I know and also what I don't understand. Emotions for what has transpired.”

Knows Writing Emotion

Author:Lucrecia Martel

“I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer.”

Knows Writing Honest

Author:Will Eisner

“I write about what I know and what I've experienced. That's the only way it can be real to me. I love songwriting. There is something so satisfying in coming up with an idea and turning it into a song that means something to people.”

People Knows Way Writing Mean Ideas Real Song Songwriting Satisfying Being Real

Author:Aaron Tippin

“I write about what I know, what I live, what I observe.”

Knows Writing

Author:Taylor Momsen

“I write about what I know.”

Knows Writing

Author:Shelby Lynne

“I write about what I know: sex, pornography, art, fame obsession, drugs, and alcohol. I mean, why would anyone care to listen to me if I wasn't an expert in what I write about?”

Ifs Knows Writing Mean Art Care Sex Drug Fame Alcohol Obsession Experts Pornography Drugs And Alcohol Listen To Me

Author:Lady Gaga

“I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.”

Knows Writing

Author:Colum McCann

“I write about what I want to write about, and so the film comes out as a very personal expression even if its subject matter is totally prefabricated.”

Ifs Want Writing Matter Film Subjects Expression Subject Matter Personal Expression

Author:Woody Allen

“I write about what I'm thinking about. I write about what is bothering me or what is a political, aesthetic, or ethical issue or something, and then I figure out how to do it. I don't write essays that kind of just sustain one thought. I tend to move around because that's what I like.”

Thinking Writing Kind Moving Political Bother Ethical Aesthetic Essays

Author:Lynne Tillman

“I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience.”

Writing Trying Interest Audience Dangerous

Author:Jonathan Carroll

“I write about whatever is timely - whatever is happening at the time for me - with what the expressive feeling is.”

Writing Feelings Happenings Expressive Timely

Author:Sakyong Mipham

“I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.”

Writing Funny Eternal Commitment Wounds Sincere Sincerity

Author:Tahar Ben Jelloun

“I write about you all the time, I said aloud. Every time I say "I", it refers to you.”

People Relationships Parents Meanings

Author:Louise Glück

Source: Faithful and Virtuous Night

“I write about, more or less, everything I can think of, that is I stretch my imagination as far as it'll go. I am kind of stuck in the middle as far as my life goes, and hence my imagination tends to zero in on things which are indeed in the middle. That is, I don't write about the very rich, who I scarcely know, or the very poor who I don't know very well either.”

Thinking Knows Writing Wells Kind I Can Imagination Poor Rich Middle Stuck Zero My Imagination Stuck In The Middle

Author:John Updike

“I write abundantly. And then my next step is to struggle to reduce the ornament, to reduce the abundance-to prune the book, in other words, the way one prunes a tree-so it can grow. This is my idea of a book.”

Way Writing Book Ideas Next Grows Steps Struggle Tree Abundance Ornaments Next Steps Prunes

Author:James Wright

“I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.”

Writing Boundaries Genre Complementary

Author:Julianna Baggott

“I write across several genres. I’m a slut for words. I can’t keep it in my literary pants.”

Writing Genre Slut Cross Genre Inter Genre

Author:Fierce Dolan

“I write adult fiction, but a good 40 to 50 per cent of my readers are teenagers. I love that if they have to grow up and move past JK Rowling they can move to me. From Jo to Jodi!”

Ifs Writing Past Moving Grows Fiction Growing Up Reader Adults Teenager Cents

Author:Jodi Picoult

“I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law.”

Ifs Want Writing Humans Law Human Beings Islamic Women Want Islamic Law

Author:Taslima Nasrin

“I write against violence. I write against fascism. I write against one person dominating another.”

Writing Persons Violence Fascism Dominating Against Violence

Author:Timothy Findley

“I write all day and outline stories, a sports mythological universe.”

Writing Stories Universe Sports Outlines

Author:Kobe Bryant

“I write all day every day, so when I feel unproductive, it magnifies everything else.”

Feels Writing Unproductive

Author:Blake Butler

“I write all my own songs and they are just simple melodies with a lot of lyrics. They usually have to do with current events and what is going on in the news. You can call them topical songs, songs about the news, and then developing into more philosophical songs later.”

Writing Song My Own Simple Events News Philosophical Currents Developing Melody Current Events

Author:Phil Ochs

“I write all my sermons.”

Writing Sermons

Author:Joel Osteen

“I write all of my novels and stories, as you have seen, in a great surge of delightful passion. Only recently, glancing at the novel, I realized that Montag is named after a paper manufacturing company. And Faber, of course, is a maker of pencils! What a sly thing my subconscious was, to name them thus. And not tell me!”

Writing Stories Passion Courses Names Company Novel Paper I Realized Makers Subconscious Delightful Pencils Manufacturing Sly

Author:Ray Bradbury

Source: Fahrenheit 451: A Novel

“I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write”

Writing

Author:Colin Quinn

“I write all the time because I'm lonely. When you're acting, you're working every day all day. But then you have long amounts of time off.”

Writing Long Acting Amount Lonely Time Off I'm Lonely

Author:Jesse Eisenberg

“I write all the time but often abandon things I don't think will go anywhere. It's rare that I'll labor over writing something that doesn't feel like it will turn into a keeper.”

Thinking Writing Labor Abandon

Author:Robin Pecknold

“I write all the time, and I write a lot of songs, but before I started putting out records those songs always just ended up on stuff that I did with The Babies.”

Writing Song Stuff Records Baby

Author:Kevin Morby

“I write all the time, but you just want to be careful what you put out. That's all. You want to have the confidence that you've done what you need to do to it, because otherwise it's an exercise in vanity.”

Want Needs Writing Done Exercise Careful Vanity Be Careful

Author:Dylan Moran

“I write all the time, I've got a big, thick, old ledger book that I write stuff down in. I used to watch TV and write things that people would say and now I tend to get it more out of books and from conversations with people I meet.”

People Writing Book Bigs Used Stuff Watches Tvs Conversation Thick

Author:Thighpaulsandra

“I write all the time. I do artwork that's part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them pretty much every day.”

Writing Stories Short Story Diaries Artwork

Author:Mark Mothersbaugh

“I write all the time. The wonderful thing about having a cell phone is that if I get an idea, I knock it out and it's in my phone and I can transfer it to my computer and go into the studio and bring it up.”

Ifs Writing I Can Ideas Wonderful Computer Phones Studios Cells Wonderful Things Cell Phone Transfers

Author:Ian Astbury

“I write all year, and at the end of the year I put an album out. And if sucks, it sucks, and if it's good, it's good. I just let it lay where it lays. It doesn't stop from doing another one next year.”

Ifs Writing Years Ends Next Lays Albums Next Year

Author:Toby Keith

“I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock songs, metal songs, heavy metal songs, really heavy songs I love writing on an acoustic because I can hear what every string is doing; the vibrations haven't been combined in a collision of distortion or effects yet.”

Ifs Writing I Can Hard Song Turns Effects Rocks Havens Guitar Heavy Strings Metals Vibrations Because I Can Distortion Acoustics Collision Heavy Metal Acoustic Guitar Hard Rock Rock Song

Author:Corey Taylor

“I write almost always in the third person, and I don't think the narrator is male or female anyway. They're both, and young and old, and wise and silly, and sceptical and credulous, and innocent and experienced, all at once. Narrators are not even human - they're sprites.”

Thinking Writing Humans Persons Young Wise Female Thirds Males Silly Innocent Narrators Young And Old Third Person Old And Wise

Author:Philip Pullman

“I write almost entirely in bed or on a couch with my feet up on the coffee table. I feel most creative when Im looking out the window, and my bed and couch have nice views of the New York skyline.”

Feels Writing Views Creative Nice Feet New York Bed Window Tables Coffee Couches Skylines

Author:Gary Shteyngart

“I write almost entlirely on Macs, because: Windows gives me hives.”

Giving Writing Window Give Me Macs Hives

Author:Charles Stross

“I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with many different instruments.”

Writing Different Sometimes Song Simple Instruments

Author:Kaki King

“I write almost everything on my albums, all the hooks etc, but I can't sing them as I hear them in my head. I would struggle to write for just my own voice as it would be pretty limiting on what my tracks are capable of sounding like, so being open to collaboration is crucial for what I do.”

Writing Struggle Capable Track Collaboration Hook

Author:Illy

“I write almost everything, actually. Songs, poems, stories. And stories out of every genre, too.”

Writing Stories Song Genre

Author:Jackie Evancho

“I write almost purely by instinct. I've never made an outline.”

Writing Made Instinct Outlines

Author:Steve Erickson

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