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“I've written a lot of other books and this book [Tears we cannot stop] was different. I couldn't just say what I wanted to say in the same style that I said it in those other books. I felt compelled to preach.”

Said Book Different Wanted Felt Written Style Tears Compelled

Author:Michael Eric Dyson

“I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.”

Written Havens Prose

Author:Patti Smith

“I've written a lot of scripts that someone else directed, and it's absolutely vital that, if I'm gonna act in it, then I have to take off the writer hat and let the director direct.”

Ifs Written Directors Direct Scripts Hats

Author:William H. Macy

“I've written a lot of songs but I haven't had the opportunity to record a lot of them.”

Song Opportunity Records Written Havens

Author:Gloria Gaynor

“I've written a lot of wordy, erudite, pretentious songs, but believe it or not, I'm usually doing my damnedest to resist the temptation to be overly "clever," and trying to keep things as accessible - and singable - as possible.”

Trying Believe Song Written Clever Temptation Pretentious Erudite

Author:Peter Blegvad

“I've written a number of songs over the years and it's a big part of my life, this sort of tension between a longing for home and the call for the open road. It's sort of like a tug between two families. I even love to miss my home.”

Years Two Home Bigs Song Numbers Written Missing Longing Tension Open Road Longing For Home

Author:James Taylor

“I've written a script which will help change consciousness and free people from an old dead Earth and help them make their journey to the new one where we will have true health, creativity, freedom, love and dream sharing. We are working on getting the funding for it and will be the deepest communication I've shared yet which goes back to your question up top.”

People Helping Dream Earth Consciousness Creativity Written Journey Communication Scripts Funding Love Freedom

Author:Giuseppe Andrews

“I've written a song for Prince. I never showed it to Prince, but just to see if I could do it. At the time, when I sort of knew him, he was recording a song a day. I wondered if I could do that. So I wrote it.”

Ifs Song Written If I Could

Author:Randy Newman

“I've written about 15 screenplays and they all sold - they were all sold on pitches.”

Written Screenplays

Author:Bruce Vilanch

“I've written about 2,000 short stories; I've only published 300 and I feel I'm still learning. Any man who keeps working is not a failure. He may not be a great writer, but if he applies the old fashioned virtues of hard, constant labor, he'll eventually make some kind of career for himself as a writer. Ray Bradbury, 1967 interview (Doing the Math - that means for every story he sold, he wrote six "un-publishable" ones. Keep typing!)”

Ifs Men Feels Kind May Mean Stills Hard Stories Careers Virtue Written Six Labor Constant Math Interviews Rays Short Story Old Fashioned Great Writers Typing Bradbury

Author:Ray Bradbury

“I've written about a lot of different things, but the whole idea of writing for another character is unusual for pop music... Most of the repertory is love songs, and most of mine isn't. I don't know if that's a mental defect, or shyness, or what.”

Ifs Knows Writing Ideas Different Whole Character Song Written Mines Pops Different Things Unusual Defects Pop Music Shyness

Author:Randy Newman

“I've written about domestic violence in my book, Lola Rose and it's a great relief to know that terrified children like Jayni, my fictional heroine can use the special website and find support and comfort.”

Knows Children Book Use Support Violence Written Special Comfort Rose Relief Terrified Domestic Violence Website Heroines

Author:Jacqueline Wilson

“I've written about illegal immigrants in the United States; I spent a year following migrant farm workers as they were harvesting. I've written about our criminal justice system, and how it treats the victims of crime. I've been working for years now on a book about prisons in America, and I've been going into prisons and traveling around the country and seeing what's going on.”

“I've written about one song on several different albums.”

Different Song Written Albums

Author:Gloria Gaynor

“I've written about Powers Hapgood. He was a Harvard graduate, son of a wealthy family who owned a cannery out there. After leaving Harvard, he went to work in coal mines and then was a CIO executive when I met him there, in Indianapolis.”

Written Mines Son Mets Leaving Executives Wealthy Graduates Coal Harvard Indianapolis Cio

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“I've written about teenage heroes before, on Marvel's Runaways, and I remember at the time when I pitched it, it was a team that had more female members than males. Even that caused of much discussion about, "Will there be a market for this, and should there at least be equal number of male and females?"”

Should Remember Numbers Written Team Hero Equal Members Female Males Discussion Teenage Runaway

Author:Brian K. Vaughan

“I've written all my songs on every single one of my records, and that's what's been fun about looking back.”

Song Fun Records Written Looking Back

Author:Taylor Swift

“I've written all that I've wanted to write to date.”

Writing Wanted Written

Author:Rod Serling

“I've written almost 200 songs with Bad Religion. No matter where you look in our history, the focus has been trying to instill some of these disturbing realities about the world, some of the implications of evolution into an artistic format that can be interpreted by people who may never study evolution.”

People World Trying Looks May Has Beens Matter Reality Song Study Focus Written Evolution Artistic Disturbing Implications Format Instill

Author:Greg Graffin

“I've written and passed laws to give Medicare beneficiaries access to life saving cancer drugs and to ensure that seniors don't have to give up the prospect of a cure when they go into hospice care.”

Giving Care Law Written Drug Giving Up Cancer Access Cures Saving Senior Medicare Beneficiaries Life Saving Hospice

Author:Ron Wyden

“I've written and translated my own poems from English to German. It's basically a summation of my identity as it stands now.”

My Own Written Identity

Author:Masiela Lusha

“I've written arrangements for choirs and strings in the past, but I usually write music with my voice or a keyboard and then I'll get someone who is good at writing scores to write it out. Or, if I have the luxury of time, I will go in a room and hear the people perform and then change it through what I hear, not on paper. I can read music OK, but I probably rebelled a little - music changes into something else when you read it.”

People Writing Past Choir I Can Read

Author:Bjork

“I've written books on advertising-cheque books.”

Book Written Advertising Cheques

Author:Alan Sugar

“I've written books that have taken me fifteen years, from first sentence to last, and some that only take three or four months.”

Years Firsts Book Lasts Three Taken Four Written Months Sentences Fifteen Fifteen Years

Author:Paul Auster

“I've written enough books with real celebrities, such as Walter Payton and Hank Aaron and Billy Graham, to know that fame looks good only to people who don't have it.”

People Knows Looks Book Real Enough Written Fame Fierce

Author:Jerry B. Jenkins

“I've written fiction for as long as I can remember; it's always been my preferred form of play.”

Long I Can Play Remember Form Fiction Written

Author:Taiye Selasi

“I've written films that are violent. I'm not big on sitting and watching violence.”

Bigs Film Violence Written Sitting Violent

Author:John Ridley

“I've written five books, a book every three years. I'm fairly lazy and it doesn't take that much...people who are not lazy are Isaac Asimov.”

People Years Book Three Five Written Lazy Three Years Isaac

Author:Ethan Canin

“I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.”

Written Mediums

Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“I've written good love songs when I have been in love and I've written good love songs when I haven't.”

Has Beens Song Written Havens Been In Love Good Love

Author:John Legend

“I've written important articles on prevention, on the concept of the preventive state, how the law is moving much more in an area of trying to prevent wrongs than trying to deal with them after they occur. That will be my academic/intellectual legacy.”

Trying Important States Moving Law Deals Written Intellectual Concepts Areas Legacy Articles Academic Prevention

Author:Alan Dershowitz

“I've written in every imaginable location; a repurposed closet, the kitchen table, the bleachers while my kids had basketball practice, the front seat of the car when they were at soccer. In airports. On trains. In the break room when I was supposed to be wolfing down dinner. In the back of classrooms when I was supposed to be paying attention.”

“I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played”

Firsts Mother Song Written Instruments Piano

Author:Mick Taylor

“I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.”

Writing Song My Own Written Add Extras Verses

Author:Jackson Browne

“I've written more songs for this record than I ever have in the past so I'm trying to give it a lot of special attention to be sure my ideas really get translated right.”

Giving Trying Ideas Past Song Attention Records Written Special

Author:Suzy Bogguss

“I've written one book-length piece of journalism. The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed Bishop Gerardi? That book had an impact. Eight years after it was published it's still having an impact in Guatemala. I remember when I wrote it, a surprising number of people said things to me like, "That is such an amazing story; why didn't you turn it into a novel?"”

People Art Book Remember Political Novel Murder Journalism Remember When

Author:Francisco Goldman

“I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.”

Writing Long Two Novel Written Decades

Author:Donna Tartt

“I've written original material before, where I've come up with the idea and the characters myself, and that's definitely very different to working with someone else's characters and stories.”

Ideas Different Character Stories Written Materials Originals Come Up

Author:Alex Garland

“I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories.”

Stories Written Obsessed Short Story

Author:Nicholas Royle

“I've written plenty of scripts that sucked.”

Written Scripts Plenty

Author:Nicholas Jarecki

“I've written poems about gifts. Life is inspirational; sometimes it comes from the most unlikely places.”

Sometimes Life Is Written Unlikely

Author:Ama Ata Aidoo

“I've written probably over 200 songs that have a verse and a chorus and that's it.”

Song Written Verses Chorus

Author:Hunter Parrish

“I've written quite a few things, but I've put it on hold for now to see how everything fits together. Then I'll approach it and write specifically to see how the pieces fit in the puzzle.”

Writing Together Pieces Written Fit Approach Puzzles

Author:Matt Sharp

“I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.”

Thinking Knows Writing Firsts Persons Stories Novel Written Thirds Short Story First Person Third Person Thinking First

Author:Tamora Pierce

“I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.”

Novel Pieces Four Written Six These Days Genre Nonfiction

Author:Anne Lamott

“I've written so many songs about Englishmen, I have to go elsewhere.”

Song Written Songwriting Elsewhere Englishmen

Author:Ray Davies

“I've written so many things over the years that I don't want to go back to being just a scriptwriter. I'm in what I consider to be the enviable position of all I have to do is come up with the idea and write an outline that makes it seem like it's a viable idea that will interest people, and then other people write the scripts -- and I become the executive producer or the producer, depending on how much involvement I have, and I get a creative credit and then move on to the next project.”

People Want Writing Years Ideas Seems Moving Next Interest Creative Written Position Projects Scripts Come Up Credit Producers Executives Involvement Outlines

Author:Stan Lee

“I've written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.”

Suffering Written Consequence Yeah Great Things Great Work

Author:Frank Ocean

“I've written some poems that are in the middle ground - who are in between very challenging and abundantly clear, but there's a tremendous investment in the challenging poem, and it's been going on so long that the whole infrastructure supporting it, a lot of critics and theorists and so on are deeply invested in maintaining that status.”

Long Challenges Investment Critics

Author:Ted Kooser

“I've written some poetry I don't understand myself.”

Poetry Literature Written Poetry Is

Author:Carl Sandburg

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