“I'm not sure running the press has changed how I write (though perhaps it has in ways I can't see), but it has certainly changed my relationship to how books get made.” WayWritingMadeI CanBookRunningChangedPressesNot Sure Author:Danielle Dutton
“I wanted to write a book that showed how the subjectification of the "the murderer" has changed little in over a hundred years, and to argue that this "exceptional figure" serves a conservative function in modern culture that bears closer interrogation than it has commonly received.” WritingYearsLittlesBookWantedCultureModernFiguresChangedBearsHundredFunctionConservativeArguingMurdererExceptionalInterrogationModern Culture Author:Richard Marshall
“I have an MFA in writing. It is debatable if they are right for everyone, but I had a mentor who really changed my life, so it worked for me.” IfsWritingChangedMentorChanged My Life Author:Rob Roberge
“A lot of my students have been quite notable. Notable in both the personal sense - people who have changed my life - and notable in that many have gone on to enormous success in their writing careers. Whether or not I had a lot to do with those success stories, I'm very proud and happy for my former students getting on the map.” PeopleWritingHas BeensStoriesCareersGoneChangedStudentsProudEnormousFormerMapsNotableChanged My LifeSuccess StoriesFormer Students Author:Rob Roberge
“I was sick all the time, one exotic illness after another, which lasted throughout my twenties. My worst decade. But from the day the first book was accepted, I never got sick again. Writing changed my life.” WritingFirstsBookWorstChangedSickTwentiesIllnessDecadesAcceptedExoticChanged My Life Author:Judy Blume
“Bill Pullman is older than Aaron Eckhart - although I was older too - and the age difference changes the play. My perspective on those issues had changed a lot. Without going into nerdy details about that play, there was something that still stuck with me. I still had the same joy in that dialogue and David Mamet's rhythm in terms of his writing. I felt like there was still something to explore.” WritingStillsPlayAgeJoyFeltTermDifferencesIssuesChangedPerspectiveBillsDetailsStuckDialogueRhythmNerdyAge Difference Author:Julia Stiles
“I started writing it six and a half years ago, so the landscape has changed a lot in that time.” WritingYearsHalfChangedSixYears AgoLandscapeHalf A Year Author:Natalie Dormer
“For each of my novels, I've had something of a eureka moment of deciding what world I want to set it in - Wall Street, the pop-music industry, Harvard - and what the very vague contours of the narrative might be (which typically get changed a lot through the writing process).” WorldWantWritingMomentsMightProcessNovelStreetsChangedWallIndustryPopsNarrativeVagueWriting ProcessHarvardPop MusicMusic Industry Author:Teddy Wayne
“My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.” WritingProcessChangedHarderWriting Process Author:Ann Patchett
“I don't think writing fiction has changed my worldview.” ThinkingWritingFictionChangedWorldviewWriting Fiction Author:Donald Ray Pollock
“I had a student once come up to me and we were talking about this incident, and, of course, I never had the right thing to say. But later on, I realized I should have said: Don't write about trying to change the world, just write about a changed world or a world that's not changing. Let that do the work.” WorldShouldWritingTryingSaidCoursesTalkingChangedStudentsShould HaveCome UpI RealizedRight ThingChanging The WorldIncidentsTrying To ChangeRight Thing To Say Author:Paul Beatty
“It's been such a privilege and an honor to be writing this book [he Pleiadian Promise]. It's really changed my life, and it has absorbed my every waking moment for months. I'm going to be relieved to put that aside and just release it, because it's been a lot, not too much; it's been very glorious, but it has been a lot for me.” WritingHas BeensBookMomentsToo MuchChangedMonthsHonorPromisePrivilegeReleaseGloriousWakingRelievedChanged My Life Author:Christine McCormick Day
“I changed my hopes to being a singer [when I was a child] and sat around with my hair in my face droning Mac Davis songs. Writing was sort of a last stand. Come to think of it, it was the only "talent" I had that anyone asked for more of.” ThinkingWritingChildrenLastsFacesSongTalentChangedHairSingersSatMacsLast Stand Author:Elizabeth Crook
“I started to write the song. And I was in Gladewater, Texas, one night with Carl Perkins and I said, I've got a good idea for a song. And I sang him the first verse that I had written, and I said it's called "Because You're Mine." And he said, "I Walk The Line" is a better title, so I changed it to "I Walk The Line."” WritingFirstsSaidIdeasNightSongLinesWalksWrittenChangedMinesTitlesTexasGood IdeasVersesOne Night Author:Johnny Cash
“It takes about a year to write an opera for me, but not a really a year of writing. I'm touring at the same time, and I'm playing, sometimes doing smaller projects.[The opera] Akhnaten fits in with Gandhi and Einstein, so that forms a trilogy in a way.I picked people who were these kind of larger than life characters, who kind of changed the world they lived in by almost the force of their personality and their inventiveness. People that I think not only do I admire but I think they're admirable people.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayWritingYearsKindSometimesCharacterFormForceChangedPersonalityFitProjectsAdmireOperaTouringAdmirableLarger Than LifeTrilogiesInventiveness Author:Philip Glass
“One question is: Who is the working class today, and how has it changed? Where are we in that? I don't have a knee-jerk kind of 1930s thing about we must build the unions and that's the way to the future. I'm writing this book right now called Pallin' Around, and the subtitle is: "Talking to the Tea Party." And frankly I find talking to the Tea Party exhilarating, I love it.” WayWritingKindBookTodayPartyTalkingClassChangedRight NowUnionsTeaKneesWorking ClassJerkTea Party1930sExhilaratingSubtitles Author:Bill Ayers
“I've been transformed by stories, and I think that storytelling is definitely sacred. I take it very seriously because my life has been changed, whether it was a movie, a play, a piece of writing, poetry, a painting.” ThinkingWritingHas BeensPlayStoriesPiecesChangedPaintingSacredStorytellingTransformedWriting Poetry Author:Karla Souza
“The touring makes you take a step back. It makes you realize how your lifestyle has changed. You spend all this time inside, alone, writing. And then it becomes about travel and new places and new people. And I do love talking to people about the book, but ideally, I like a little less disruptive lifestyle, I like it when things are more organized.” PeopleWritingLittlesBookRealizingTalkingStepsChangedLifestyleOrganizedTouringDisruptiveNew Places Author:Garance Dore
“I never really am concerned about the political landscape of the day when I'm writing because no matter what it is, it will change. By the time my stories come out, it will have changed. So I never think much about that.” ThinkingWritingMatterStoriesPoliticalChangedConcernedNo Matter WhatLandscape Author:Stan Lee
“The concept of what I want to do as an artist has not changed at all. When I was seven years old, I fell in love with writing songs and knew I wanted to make music and play it for a lot of people. Back then I said I wanted to heal people with music and bring them together. I called my music, "PAZZ," which means pop and jazz. To this day, all of those things still ring crystal clear.” PeopleWantWritingYearsMeanSaidStillsPlayWantedTogetherArtistSongClearChangedConceptsJazzSevenPopsRingsHealThis DaySeven YearsCrystalsWriting Songs Author:Grace Kelly
“[Writing] totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Everything opened up.” WritingChangedChanged My Life Author:Judy Blume