“Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage. I've always written in the long format, five, eight, 10-minute pieces rather than one-liners, so since writing books, the process hasn't changed much. A piece in my live routine can end up as part of one of my HBO specials, and it can also end up in one of the books.” WritingLongBookEndsProcessFivePiecesWrittenMinutesStageChangedEightRoutineWriting A BookDepartureFormatOne LinerHboDrastic Author:George Carlin
“"God loves all his children" is somehow forgotten But we paraphrase a book written thirty-five hundred years ago.” YearsChildrenBookFiveWrittenHundredYears AgoForgottenGod LoveThirtyParaphrase Author:Macklemore
“For many people, Mrs. Brown has come from the middle of nowhere. But Mrs. Brown was first written for radio. I wrote it for a radio series in 1992. It was a five-minute piece for radio, and it's been absolutely astonishing.” PeopleFirstsFivePiecesWrittenMiddleMinutesSeriesRadioBrownFive MinutesAstonishingMiddle Of NowhereMr Brown Author:Brendan O'Carroll
“Since the songs were written over a five-year period, I think these are little snapshots. Some people call it political or topical, but I think each song is self-contained. I think it fits together as a picture of the last half-decade of time.” PeopleThinkingYearsLittlesSelfTogetherLastsPoliticalSongHalfFiveWrittenPeriodsFitDecadesFive YearsSnapshotsSelf Contained Author:Conor Oberst
“I've just always written, and always considered myself a writer. I wrote my first story when I was five. There was nothing else I wanted to do or be.” FirstsStoriesWantedFiveWritten Author:Jami Attenberg
“Could you gaze into heaven five minutes, you would know more than you would by reading all that ever was written on the subject.” KnowsReadingHeavenFiveWrittenMinutesSubjectsFive Minutes Author:Joseph Smith, Jr.
“I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.” ChildrenBookNovelFiveWrittenLatterChildren's Books Author:Mark Haddon
“A child of three cannot raise its chubby fist to its mouth to remove a piece of carpet which it is through eating, without being made the subject of a psychological seminar of child-welfare experts, and written up, along with five hundred other children of three who have put their hands to their mouths for the same reason.” ChildrenMadeReasonHandsThreeFivePiecesWrittenChildhoodSubjectsEatingMouthsHundredRaisesPsychologicalWelfareExpertsRemoveFistsCarpetSeminars Book:Benchley Lost and Found: 39 Prodigal Pieces Source: Benchley Lost and Found: 39 Prodigal Pieces
“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.” PeopleYearsBookThreeFiveWrittenLazyThree YearsIsaac Author:Ethan Canin
“I was carrying a beautiful alcoholic conflagration around with me. The thing fed on its own heat and flamed the fiercer. There was no time, in all my waking time, that I didn't want a drink. I began to anticipate the completion of my daily thousand words by taking a drink when only five hundred words were written. It was not long until I prefaced the beginning of the thousand words with a drink.” WantLongHumorBeautifulFiveWrittenDrinkThousandHundredAlcoholHeatFedsWakingAlcoholicsAnticipateCompletion Book:Jack London Six Pack Source: Jack London Six Pack
“I was getting rewarded for writing well, from about the age of five or six. A teacher would say, "Look what Andrew has written," and I thought, "Maybe I could be a writer."” WritingWellsLooksAgeFiveTeacherWrittenSixAndrewWriting Well Author:Andrew Davies
“I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.” YearsHas BeensBookFiveWrittenTwentiesFive YearsScreenplaysTwenty FiveScreenwriters Author:Alice Hoffman
“You know we receive an education in the schools from books. All those books that people became educated from twenty-five years ago, are wrong now, and those that are good now, will be wrong again twenty-five years from now. So if they are wrong then, they are also wrong now, and the one who is educated from the wrong books is not educated, he is misled. All books that are written are wrong, the one who is not educated cannot write a book and the one who is educated, is really not educated but he is misled and the one who is misled cannot write a book which is correct.” PeopleIfsKnowsWritingYearsBookSchoolFiveWrittenYears AgoTwentiesEducatedFive YearsTwenty FiveMisled Author:Edward Leedskalnin
“I haven´t written on piano since It Bites. You can tell my songs that I´ve written on piano with It Bites cause they all go like "wrooash", like Old Man And The Angel and Calling All The Heroes and songs like that. It all tends to happen very quickly, I get two thirds of the song within five minutes and then spend rest of the time trying to ruin it in my head, and then I go back to where I was from the beginning.” MenTryingTwoHappensSongCausesFiveWrittenMinutesHavensHeroCallingAngelThirdsRuinsPianoOld ManBitesFive Minutes Author:Francis Dunnery
“In order to know somebody through their words, I mean, it has to be an, it has to be a letter, you know? It has to be a long e-mail. It has to be a five-page hand-written letter, you know, it has to be overwhelming and messy and sloppy as humans are.” KnowsHumansMeanLongHandsOrderFiveWrittenPagesLettersOverwhelmingMailMessySloppy Author:Sherman Alexie
“There are about five or six songs that were written in full or in part while I was in Iraq, and that was definitely a life-changing experience. There was no shortage of inspiration.” InspirationSongFiveWrittenSixIraqLife ChangingShortageLife Changing Experience Author:Bryan Hayes