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“I wrote poetry, which got me into lyrics. Stevie Wonder, Carole King, Elton John pulled me into pop. I started singing with a band - just for fun - when I was 17. And pretty soon, I was thinking I could sing pop in English as well as Spanish.”

Thinking Wells Fun Wonder Kings Band Singing Pops Just For Fun

Author:Gloria Estefan

“I wrote relationship spelling as "realationship" when I was in 5th class. But English teacher smiled and gave me marks.”

Life Relationship Honest Integrity Loyal

Author:Rakesh Vemulawada

“I wrote Report from the Interior was that after I finished Winter Journal, I took a pause, and I realized there was more I wanted to say.”

Wanted Winter Finished I Realized Reports Pauses Journal Interiors

Author:Paul Auster

“I wrote Rick before I was published, and I had no vision of it, really. It was just a story that occurred to me, and that put its little claws in my brain, and I wrote it, and I showed it to a couple people, and they all said, "This is ghastly."”

People Littles Said Stories Brain Vision Couple Claws Ghastly

Author:Daniel Handler

“I wrote several articles criticizing psychoanalysis, but the analysts weren't listening to my objections. So I finally quit after practicing it for six years.”

Years Listening Six Quitting Criticize Articles Psychoanalysis Objections Analysts

Author:Albert Ellis

“I wrote several screenplays over the years to really polish my craft and learn from my mistakes.”

Years Mistake Crafts Polish Screenplays My Mistakes Learn From My Mistakes

Author:Gabriel Campisi

“I wrote short stories for seven years and used to mail them out. You couldn't send them by e-mail. I called them manila boomerangs. I'd seal the self-addressed stamped envelope inside an envelope and I'd mail it off, and it would come back six weeks later with a rejection letter in it.”

Years Self Stories Used Week Six Letters Seven Rejection Short Story Mail Seven Years Seals Envelopes Manila Boomerang Rejection Letters

Author:Jess Walter

“I wrote short stories when I was a teenager, but they weren't any good and I kinda knew it.”

Stories Teenager Short Story

Author:John Darnielle

“I wrote silences; nights; I recorded the unnameable.”

Night Silence

Author:Arthur Rimbaud

Source: Rimbaud Complete

“I wrote six pilots, none of which ever got picked up. When you stop trying, it then it falls in your lap.”

Trying Fall Six Pilots Lap Stop Trying

Author:George R. R. Martin

“I wrote six versions of a 30-second tease for an NBA game. You never get it right on the first try.”

Trying Firsts Games Six Versions Nba Tease

Author:Mike Tirico

“I wrote so meagerly to you. But what I couldn't write swelled and swelled like an old-fashioned airship and drifted away at last through the night sky.”

Poetry Words

Author:Tomas Tranströmer

Source: The Great Enigma: New Collected Poems

“I wrote so much about fandom and participation for NPR that I eventually realized my most fertile way of participating in music is to actually play it, at least in a way that made the most sense to me.”

Way Made Play Music Is Participation Participating Fertile Npr Fandoms

Author:Carrie Brownstein

“I wrote so much about our love that the feeling itself turned into art.”

Love Art Poetry Literature Poem Aesthetics Dark Academia Light Academia Cottage Core

Author:Laura Chouette

Source: Profound Reverie

“I wrote some bad poetry that I published in North African journals, but even as I withdrew into this reading, I also led the life of a kind of young hooligan.”

Kind Young Reading Journal

Author:Jacques Derrida

Source: Points . .: Interviews, 1974-1994

“I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.”

Sometimes Worst Rivers West Mississippi Mississippi River

Author:Maya Angelou

“I wrote some weird magical realism stories that are probably on some hard drive somewhere, and if I ever uncover that hard drive, I'll burn it. I tried to do a little bit of writing while I was in Iraq, but it wasn't the really greatest space for creative production.”

Writing Creative Really Great

Author:Phil Klay

“I wrote. Something. Yes. And you were truthful. No. You weren't truthful? I was accurate.”

Writing Truth Accuracy

Author:Richard Flanagan

Source: The Narrow Road to the Deep North

“I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not.”

Wanted Song

Author:Tommy Shaw

“I wrote Sophies World in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when Im working on a book.”

World Writing Book Three Hours Sleep Months Sophie Three Months

Author:Jostein Gaarder

“I wrote speculative fiction because I loved to read it, and thought I could do better than some of the people who were getting published.”

People Fiction Speculative Fiction

Author:Fred Saberhagen

“I wrote that book anyhow, because I needed to write it for my own intimate purposes - and also because I was curious to see if I could convey my emotional experiences adequately on paper.”

Writing Writing Inspiration On Writing Why I Write Why We Write Reason For Writing Reasons For Writing Writing Motivation Why Write Why To Write

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

Source: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“I wrote that certain things were leaving me nauseated. I said that judges made me feel that way. Not most of them but all of them. I said that you for example, the judge I'm writing this to, made me feel nauseated. The nausea came from understanding that people produced by every conceivable advantage got to decide whether someone like Jalen lived or died and what was worse was they never fucking seemed to decide that the person should live, that a person's life, any person, was more important than whether some fat fuck at a country club thought you were hard enough on crime or whether you continue to get sufficient reelection campaign contributions you worthless retarded piece of shit. Why should you be allowed to decide anything beyond what you have for lunch you mental infant?”

Crime Death Penalty Judges Sentencing

Author:Sergio De La Pava

Source: A Naked Singularity

“I wrote the album [Metals] in the fall. In about four months, I went from zero to finished. It usually takes forever.”

Fall Forever Four Months Albums Finished Zero

Author:Feist

“I wrote the book 'Grace, Gold & Glory' because I had to overcome many challenges and hardships. I wanted to share my story to let anyone facing hardships know that your dream is still possible.”

Knows Stills Book Stories Dream Wanted Challenges Grace Share Glory Gold Overcoming Your Dreams Hardship

Author:Gabby Douglas

“I wrote the book [Today Matters] because I have a passion to help people personally grow. Really what it is, it's a personal growth book.”

People Book Matter Helping Today Passion Grows Growth Personal Growth

Author:John C. Maxwell

“I wrote the book based on a blog that I keep. I also tweet. I don't think that for an incredibly old fart I'm totally behind the power curve. I really believe that the essentials of human relationships remain the same.”

Thinking Believe Humans Book Behinds Essentials Curves Blogs Tweet Human Relations Human Relationships Fart Old Farts

Author:Tom Peters

“I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound, as you get to a certain point in life, you figure so what am I doing?”

May Book Able Wanted Certain Sound Share Figures Pompous Points In Life

Author:Goldie Hawn

“I wrote the book because I was the main character in the movie. Or, did I write the movie because I was the main character in the book.”

Writing Books Thoughts Writer Dilemma Fiction Novel Dilemma Of Poetry Dilemma Or Tragedy

Author:Niedria Kenny

Source: Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player

“I wrote the book Don't Die, My Love as I was going through radiation, so it certainly has an air of authenticity about it because I was there. I think all of my books took on kind of a deeper tone when the lady who wrote about cancer all of a sudden had cancer. I'm doing well. I went through it all and they said, 'You're fine."”

Thinking Wells Kind Said Book Dies Air Fine Cancer Deeper Authenticity Tone Radiation They Said

Author:Lurlene McDaniel

“I wrote the book in my head when I was 6 years old.”

Years Book

Author:Steven Cojocaru

“I wrote the book not to prove people wrong but just to get the insight on who I am as a person.”

People Persons Book Prove Insight Who I Am

Author:Terrell Owens

“I wrote the Brotherhood song for no money out of my deep feelings about humanity, and because I was flattered that whatever talents I had, had been recognized.”

Feelings Song Humanity Talent Brotherhood No Money Flattered Deep Feeling

Author:Tom Glazer

“I wrote the column. I - you know, - the column simply said that [Clay] Felker is destroying this paper. And I heard that he was about ready to fire me, but two other people on The Voice interceded and, fortunately, he had a very short attention span, so I wasn't fired.”

People Knows Said Two Voice Attention Fire Heard Ready Paper Destroying Clay Columns Attention Span Short Attention Spans Simply Said

Author:Nat Hentoff

“I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after writing the book it seemed to me that there was at least one similarity between us and that was that Dickens loved to write and wrote with the ease and conviction of breathing. Me, too.”

Writing Book Felt Conviction Breathing Ease Similarity Dickens Kinship

Author:Jane Smiley

Source: Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel

“I wrote the entire history of Alpha because the space station was around for 500 years. I have 30 pages on the history of Alpha. Every ten years what happens. They took control and what happened. Every 80 years, they have to change the communication system because it doesn't work anymore. Some aliens come with new technology, and suddenly you can change the electric system. We wrote the entire story [for Valerian]”

Years Stories Happens Space Technology Happened Communication Ten Pages Aliens Stations Electric New Technology Alphas

Author:Luc Besson

“I wrote the first book, and then I forgot how to write. It used to be that I would sit and write, and I would go into some other world--I could see it all. I was totally in another place. But the second it became something I had to do, something in me broke.”

School Murder Mystery Maureen Johnson

Author:Maureen Johnson

Source: Truly, Devious

“I wrote the first book, and I thought people would say: 'Separate and unequal schools in the City of Boston? I didn't know that. Let's go out and fix it.'”

People Knows Firsts Book School Cities Boston

Author:Jonathan Kozol

“I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on... It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science.”

Writing Firsts Two Book Certain Stars Saws Obvious Revolutionary Touched Harvest Implications Cybernetics Biological Science

Author:Poul Anderson

“I wrote the first draft of my first novel at Michigan, and then I wrote the first draft of 'Salvage the Bones' at Stanford. So I workshopped the entire thing.”

Firsts Novel Bones Michigan Stanford Salvage

Author:Jesmyn Ward

“I wrote the first draft of the New People quickly but it had been percolating a lot longer. It's a hard question to answer because I'd been working on another novel for years and when I gave up on that, this one came very easily. But I think the work had been going on a lot longer than the actual writing.”

People Thinking Writing Novel Gave Up

Author:Danzy Senna

“I wrote The Grapes of Wrath in one hundred days, but many years of preparation preceded it.”

Years Hundred Preparation Wrath Grapes

Author:John Steinbeck

Source: The Grapes of Wrath

“I wrote The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God in five hours, but I had it all planned out. It isn't poetry and it does not pretend to be, but it does what it sets out to do.”

Littles Doe Eye Hours Five Green Yellow Green Eyes

Author:J. Milton Hayes

“I wrote The Jesus Storybook Bible because I wanted children to know the Bible isn't mainly about you and what you're supposed to be doing. It's about God and what he has done. It's the story of how God loves his children and comes to rescue them. It's a Love Story. It's an Adventure Story. And at the center of the story is a baby - the child upon whom everything would depend. And every single story in the Bible whispers his name.”

Children Done Jesus Adventure Baby Love Story God Love

Author:Sally Lloyd-Jones

“I wrote the notes to your soul”

Soul Music Quote Of The Day Anthony T Hincks Songwriting Veitch Jacob Aaron Musical Notes

Author:Anthony T. Hincks

“I wrote the novel [Room], and then I thought, "This could work on film, and I want to be the one to do it." So I went ahead and drafted it.”

Want Film Rooms Novel

Author:Emma Donoghue

“I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger.”

Literature Danger Originals Comic Hammers Mike

Author:Mickey Spillane

“I wrote The Philosophy of Disenchantment, which is, I think, the gloomiest and worst book ever published. Out of sheer laziness, I then produced a history of atheism, The Anatomy of Negation, which has been honored by international dislike. Need I state that of all my children it is the one that I prefer?”

Thinking Needs Children Has Beens Book States Philosophy Atheism Worst International My Children Dislike Laziness Sheer Honored Anatomy Negation Disenchantment

Author:Edgar Saltus

“I wrote the plot [for the Persepolis ]and Vincent [Paronnaud] and I wrote and discussed the shooting of the script. Vincent then took care of the production design, the actual shooting, and what was going on within each scene. It's very difficult, though, to draw a line between who did what. Because Vincent would say something, and I would add something, and at the end you have this film, yet no clear idea of who did what.”

Ideas Ends Care Film Difficult Lines Clear Design Scene Draws Add Scripts Productions Shooting Plot Persepolis Production Design

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“I wrote the poems in Charms Against Lightning one by one, over almost a decade, and I did not write them toward any theme or narrative. But once I really got serious about putting together a book, I began to see that in fact there were themes across the poems, if only because my own obsessions had brought me back time and again to the same ground. I realized that any ordering of the poems would determine how those themes developed over the manuscript, and how the collection's dramatic conflicts were resolved.”

Writing Book Together Serious Conflict Determine I Realized Obsession Dramatic

Author:James Arthur

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