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“I wrote a script and I've been whispering in director's ears for a really long time and I'd love to direct.”

Long Directors Long Time Direct Ears Scripts Whispering Really Long

“I wrote a script, and I gave it to a guy who reads scripts, and he read it, and he liked it, but he said he thinks I ought to re-write it. I said, "Fuck that - I'll just make a copy!"”

Thinking Needs Said Humor Funny Guy Scripts Likes Copies Screws

Author:Mitch Hedberg

“I wrote a script. I actually enjoyed writing it more than acting. It's about the Irish rebellion of 1920, which is a fascinating period and place for me”

Writing Acting Periods Scripts Enjoyed Fascinating Rebellion

Author:Tom Berenger

“I wrote a short article called "Yardcore" for that issue, too, as an attempt to talk about the Jamaican influence on garage, grime and dubstep; as a splicing of soundsystem culture and hardcore.”

Culture Issues Influence Articles Garage Hardcore Jamaicans Grime Dubstep

Author:Kode9

“I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?”

Song Internet Positive Atheism Teeth Insult Free Speech Cleaners Dental Dental Floss Flossing

Author:Frank Zappa

“I wrote a song at age five about algae on the pond by our house, then the next 'real' song was in fifth grade about an unrequited crush.”

Real Age Song Next House Five Crush Grades Fifth Ponds Unrequited Fifth Grade Algae

Author:Greta Salpeter

“I wrote a song called "Green Day" because I was smoking a lot of dope.”

Song Green Smoking Dope

Author:Billie Joe Armstrong

“I wrote a song called 'Red' and thinking about what that song means to me and all the different emotions on this album they're all pretty much about the tumultuous, crazy, insane, intense, semi-toxic relationships I've experienced in the last two years. All those emotions fanning from intense love, intense frustration, intense jealousy, confusion, all of that in my mind, all those emotions are red. There's nothing in between, there's nothing beige about those feelings and so I called my record that.”

“I wrote a song, but I can't read music so I don't know what it is. Every once in a while I'll be listening to the radio and I say, "I think I might have written that."”

Thinking Knows I Can Humor Might Funny Song Music Written Listening Radio

Author:Steven Wright

“I wrote a story for my kids. It's fiction. It's not systematic theology. It's not a new book of the Bible. It's flawed, I wrote it. All of that goes into the mix, but I love the controversy. It elevates the conversation.”

Book Stories Kids Fiction Conversation Theology Controversy Flawed Systematic New Books

Author:William P. Young

“I wrote a study about this question, The Lessons of October, which served as a pretext for my elimination from the government.”

Government Study Lessons October Elimination Pretext

Author:Leon Trotsky

“I wrote a thirty-second song that I couldn't finish for a year.”

Years Song Thirty

Author:John Flansburgh

“I wrote a whole novel before The Beach. Unpublishable. Junk. But, for some reason I stuck at novels and wrote a second. Still not sure why I didn't give up. Stubborn, maybe.”

Giving Stills Reason Whole Novel Giving Up Stuck Beach Not Sure Stubborn Junk

Author:Alex Garland

“I wrote a work of history, I looked at over 500 sources - I spent three-and-a-half years on the project. I think the most gratifying and wonderful thing about the reaction is that people are learning things from the history that feel relevant to today.”

People Thinking Today Wonderful Relevant Over 50

Author:Dana Goldstein

“I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher could not believe that a ten-year-old could write that well. I was even punished because my teacher thought I'd lied about writing it! I had always loved to write, but it was then that I realized that I had a talent for it.”

Writing Years Believe Wells Stories Teacher Talent Ten Bird I Realized Teeth Lied Crocodiles

Author:Brian Jacques

“I wrote about drugs, and I didn't think I was being unsafe or careless by writing about them. I didn't want fans to think heroin was cool. But then I've had fans come up to me and give me the thumbs up, telling me they're high. That's exactly what I didn't want to happen.”

Thinking Want Giving Writing Happens Fans Drug Give Me Come Up Thumbs Careless Heroin Unsafe Thumbs Up

Author:Layne Staley

“I wrote about four novels before I wrote a word of journalism.”

Novel Four Journalism

Author:Francine Prose

“I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification. And in a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.”

Want Desire Artist Process Expression Function Edges Accepted Instant Breasts Feeding Toilets Gratification Repressed Instant Gratification

Author:Bat for Lashes

“I wrote about my life just as I remembered it. I named names and it's very detailed. Hundreds of Sudanese refugees and people from Africa say that my journey is very similar to theirs.”

People Names Journey Remembered Refugee My Journey

Author:Kola Boof

“I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful.”

People Wonderful Horse Clock Fake Fake People Embedded Brass Parlor Fireplaces

Author:Betty Smith

“I wrote about the life of a housing officer in Britain, in a pretty rough area of London. Maybe it was because I'm a big-mouth and an exhibitionist, and I'm slightly egotistical. All those things have to come together for a writer.”

Bigs Together Mouths Areas London Britain Rough Officers Housing Egotistical Exhibitionist

Author:Ben Richards

“I wrote about the night bird cries, the sea sounds and the lonely barking, and I liked what I wrote in flashes; but something was wrong with it. There is always something wrong with writing. So I tore the paper up at last, liking the untouched memory so much better, not wanting it forced into the insincerity of words.”

Memory Romanticization Limitations Of Writing

Author:Denton Welch

Source: A Voice Through a Cloud

“I wrote about the person I love most, my older brother, Noah. We don't live together so I wrote what I imagine he does when we're not together." "And what is that?" prodded the stout man. "He's a superhero who saves people in danger, because he saved me and my brother from dying in a fire a couple of years ago. Noah is better than Batman." The crowd chuckled. "I love you, too, lil'bro.”

Sweet Little Brother Noah Hutchins Pushing The Limits Katie Mcgarry Jacob Hutchins

Author:Katie McGarry

Source: Pushing the Limits

“I wrote about the things I discovered along the way and about how whether we believe it or not, everything we need to succeed in life is already present inside us. We just have to find the few.”

Life Writing Believe Wisdom Success Life Lessons Belief Journey Succeed Discovery Journey Of Life Key Wrote The Dark Dictionary

Author:Andrew Kendall

Source: The Dark Dictionary: A Guide to Help Eradicate Your Darkness, Restore Your Light, and Redefine Your Life.

“I wrote about wasting time, which I suppose is a part of the great human journey. We're supposed to wallow, to go through the desert without water for a long time so that when we finally drink it, we'll truly need it and we won't spill a drop. It's about being present.”

Needs Humans Long Water Journey Drink Long Time Desert Wasting Time Spills

Author:Walton Goggins

“I wrote about what I was going through at the time.”

Author:Avril Lavigne

“I wrote about why I didn't think libertarians are really doing this kind of thing so that they can have sex with dogs. I discussed some of the reasons that a person might want to live out of the control of our federal, state, local, and every other form of government. Actually, I don't think I even called myself a libertarian. I think Tom Shroder identified me as one.”

Thinking Want Kind Persons States Reason Government Might Form Sex Dog Libertarian Locals Toms Forms Of Government

Author:Dave Barry

“I wrote about World War II because I didn't understand it. I think that's the reason that historians are drawn to any subject - there's something about it that doesn't make sense. I wanted to work my way through what happened slowly, and look at everything in the order in which it took place.”

Thinking World Way Looks War Reason Wanted Order Happened Subjects My Way Make Sense War Of The Worlds Historian World War Ii World War I

Author:Nicholson Baker

“I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.”

Book Four Starbucks

Author:Rainbow Rowell

“I wrote all the time, but the idea of doing it professionally seemed like pie in the sky. Who gets paid to write? I grew up in Pittsburgh, so it wasn't really a notion that a lot of people pursue.”

People Writing

Author:Shane Black

“I wrote almost all of it in the deepest hope and conviction. Sifting my thoughts and choosing my words. Trying to say what was true. And I'll tell you frankly, that was wonderful.”

Trying Wonderful Conviction My Thoughts Sifting

Author:Marilynne Robinson

Source: Gilead: A Novel

“I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: "Macintosh - We might not get everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to end".”

Ends Might Century Computer Apples Programming Ads Macintosh Macintosh Computers

Author:Douglas Adams

“I wrote an album about being in love. I don't think it's possible to write an album while you're in love - why on earth would you bother? I mean, Christ. If you're in there writing songs about someone rather than just being with them and kissing their every molecule, surely the person that you're with must be asking some questions as well.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Wells Mean Persons Earth Song Christ Kissing Asking Albums Bother Just Being Being In Love Writing Songs Molecules

Author:Gary Lightbody

“I wrote an article about the marine landing [in Haiti] right away, but barely mentioned the oil, because my article would come out two months later and I assumed by then, "of course, everybody knows." Nobody knew. There was a news report in the Wall Street Journal, in the petroleum journals, and in some small newspapers, but not in the mainstream press.”

Knows Two Courses Streets Wall Months News Presses Oil Newspapers Reports Articles Mainstream Journal Marine Landing Haiti Two Months Petroleum Wall Street Journal

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I wrote an article not so long ago that was published in the Los Angeles Times, and I think I titled it "Movies vs. History." But I think they had another title for it. I got sort of sick and tired of seeing movies that got picked apart by people because they had taken dramatic or poetic license and I said "These people don't understand the distinctions."”

People Thinking Long Said Taken Seeing Sick Tired Titles Dramatic Distinction Los Angeles Poetic Articles Long Ago License Poetic License

Author:Nicholas Meyer

“I wrote an article on a new Porsche for 'Automobile Magazine.' I knew the editor, and she asked me to write this article. So I'm more proud of that than anything.”

Writing Proud Magazines Editors Articles Automobile Porsche

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“I wrote an entire movie [Man up] about how important I think voices are, so it was funny.”

Thinking Men Important Voice

Author:Lake Bell

“I wrote an essay too, and mine started something like, "When I was asked to contribute to this book, I said, 'I could do a piece on [Larry] Kramer as a pain in the ass, but I suppose you have too many of those, as it is.'" And Sarah's began something like, "When I read about America's angriest AIDS activist, I can't believe they are talking about my sweet Uncle Larry."”

Believe Said I Can Book Pain America Talking Pieces Mines Sweet Aids Ass Activist Uncles Essays Larry Kramer

Author:Kevin Sessums

“I wrote an op-ed piece in The New York Times about the amazing effect of shared wonder - how I have an audience filled with people who you'd think would hate each other, people from every religious category, all at the same show at the same time. And it's an amazing phenomenon to watch this shared sense of wonder, where these people who really don't like each other - for good and bad reasons, reasons that make sense and that don't make sense - are in the same room, experiencing this unification.”

“I wrote and concepted 99% of the ideas for Crash Landing and we reached out to a lot of different popular producers like Jahlil, KE, Kajmir Royale, Hit-Boy etc.”

Ideas Different Boys Producers Etc Crash Landing

Author:Kid Ink

“I wrote and directed a movie called Two-Bit Waltz.”

Two Bits Waltz Two Bit

Author:Clara Mamet

“I wrote and directed and acted in it and produced it, every job I have since that - and Star Wars included - I look at it completely different now. Now that I've seen how it gets made, I can appreciate the jobs that people are doing, and it's also become a different learning experience for me to work on things because I'm watching pros at the top of their field do their jobs and just picking up on their tricks and all of their expertise and stashing them away in my brain.”

People Looks Made I Can Different War Jobs Stars Brain Fields Appreciate Tricks Expertise Learning Experience

Author:Alan Tudyk

“I wrote and produced millions and millions of selling records, so my publishing company alone was worth millions of dollars. I didn't have to work anymore in life because when the rappers started sampling... I'm the most sampled artist in history.”

Artist Company Millions Records Dollars Selling Rapper Publishing Sampling

Author:Rick James

“I wrote another wrestling film script. And we finished the shooting [with Lloyd Phillips]. But Henry Winkler came out with his own wrestling film, which did poorly. So the studios passed on ours, and it never got released.”

Film Scripts Studios Finished Shooting Wrestling

Author:John Ratzenberger

“I wrote articles about rich athletes who, for the most part, could not care less about people like me. .. My days were full, yet I remained, much of the time, unsatisfied. What happened to me?”

Life Time Change Work Busy Unsatisfied

Author:Mitch Albom

Source: Tuesdays With Morrie: An old man, a young man, and life's greatest lesson

“I wrote as a kid, but I never wanted to be a writer particularly. I had been drawing and painting for years and loved that. And I meditate, and one time when I was meditating, I started thinking, "Gee Gail, you love stories -- you read all the time. How come you never tell yourself a story?" While I should have been saying my mantra to myself, I started telling myself a story. It turned out to be an art appreciation book for kids with reproductions of famous artworks and pencil drawings that I did. I tried to get it published and was rejected wholesale.”

“I wrote as a teenager, and once I started acting, you know, you're learning lines, you're doing other people's words, it takes up a lot of time. Especially if you're dedicated to what you're doing, you're trying to do a decent job at it. But I would have said to myself, "Write more, please."”

People Ifs Knows Writing Trying Said Jobs Lines Acting Please Teenager Decent Dedicated Doing You

Author:John Larroquette

“I wrote at the start that this was a record of hate, and walking there beside Henry towards the evening glass of beer, I found the one prayer that seemed to serve the winter mood: O God, You've done enough, You've robbed me of enough, I'm too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone forever.”

Done Enough Hate Found Prayer Forever Records Walking Tired Winter Glasses Mood Evening Beer Leaving Me Me Alone Leave Me Alone Found The One

Author:Graham Greene

Source: The End of the Affair

“I wrote Baghdad Central right after translating a great work by Ibrahim al-Koni, who is sort of a master of Arab fiction. In conversations with him I realized that translations have been my MFA program. If I have learned how to write fiction it's by working with great writers and getting them to explain their craft to me so that I can do it in English. That's how I've figured it out.”

Writing Program I Realized Translate I Have Learned Great Work Translations Great Writers

Author:Elliott Colla

“I wrote because I had to. I couldn't stop. There wasn't anything else I could do. If no one ever bought anything, anything I ever did, I'd still be writing. It's beyond a compulsion.”

Ifs Writing Stills Compulsion

Author:Tennessee Williams

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