“All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.” PeopleKnowsWritingLiteratureWrittenHappened Author:Norman MacCaig
“I respond very well to well-written material and women who have had an effect on society, something tragic or monumental has happened to them.” WellsWrittenHappenedEffectsMaterialsTragicWell Written Author:Samantha Morton
“Written history may, in the course of its narrative, use some of the laws established by the various sciences, but its own task remains that of relating the essential sequence of historical action and, qua history, to tell what happened, not why.” MayUseActionLawCoursesWrittenHappenedEssentialsTasksRemainsHistoricalVariousNarrativeSequenceWritten History Book:The New Psychohistory Source: The New Psychohistory
“The Long, Long Trailer (1954) actually happened and the man wrote a book about it. Father of the Bride, same thing; a banker wrote that who had never written anything else.” MenLongBookFatherWrittenHappenedHe ManBankersBridesTrailersFather Of The Bride Author:Vincente Minnelli
“Literature is a fragment of a fragment. Of all that ever happened, or has been said, but a fraction has been written; and of this but little is extant.” LittlesHas BeensSaidLiteratureWrittenHappenedFragmentsFractions Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Restaurant Man is kind of the story, an unabridged story of what happened in my life, the good bad and ugly. Some people might glean some life lessons. It is honest, not written as a press release.” PeopleMenKindStoriesMightWrittenHappenedHonestLessonsPressesUglyReleaseRestaurantsLife LessonPress Release Author:Joe Bastianich
“I had written eight drafts of the Lemony Snicket' screenplay when this changing-of-the-guard thing happened, and I said to the new producers, "I don't think I could write any more drafts." I guess I was sort of hoping they would say, "Well that's okay, this last one is perfect." But instead, they said, "It's funny you should say that. We don't think you can write any more drafts either."” ThinkingShouldWritingWellsSaidLastsPerfectWrittenHappenedOkayEightThings HappenProducersThey SaidScreenplaysSnicket Author:Daniel Handler
“Live your life with passion, with some drive, decide that you are going to push yourself. The last chapter to your life has not been written yet, and it doesn't matter about what happened yesterday. It doesn't matter about what happened to you, what matters is, 'what are you going to do about it?'” MatterLastsPassionWrittenHappenedYesterdayChaptersWhat MattersLive Your LifePush Yourself Author:Les Brown
“At some unnoticed moment, I began to understand that a life is written in indelible ink. What I've chosen, what's happened unchosen, can't be unmade or redone. Poetry, though, is a door that only continues to open. Even the unchangeable past changes inside a poem. Not the facts, but the feeling, the comprehension.” MomentsFactsFeelingsPastLife IsWrittenHappenedDoorsChosenInkComprehensionUnnoticedUnchangeableIndelible Author:Jane Hirshfield
“I've always felt that the poems I've written which have historical context are hopefully not just simply plucking something out of history and saying great, let's write about that. In every case what has happened is that I've become fascinated or haunted by something and couldn't shake it.” WritingFeltCasesWrittenHappenedHistoricalHopefullyShakesFascinatedHistorical ContextHopefully Not Author:Rita Dove
“What happened during the previews of 'Taboo' [musical] was that it was the first time I'd ever been written about as a great song-writer - I cried. I absolutely wept, because it wasn't the usual stuff like, "Oh, he was a drug addict and he did this and that..." It was really looking at the music and it was really complimentary. It was a huge thing.” FirstsSongStuffWrittenHappenedHugeDrugFirst TimeMusicalUsualCriedAddictTabooDrug AddictPreview Author:Boy George
“Mostly things that have happened to me, feelings that I've had, but on a couple of occasions I've written about things that have happened to other people.” PeopleFeelingsWrittenHappenedCoupleOccasions Author:James Walsh
“I don't think you ever write a song with any intention except the song's about such and such per say ... we've never written a song and thought 'oh it'd be great if in this part this happened in the audience'.” IfsThinkingWritingSongAudienceWrittenHappenedIntention Author:Al Barr
“When about 16 Years of Age, I happened to meet with a Book written by one Tryon, recommending a Vegetable Diet. I determined to go into it.... My refusing to eat Flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity.” YearsBookAgeWrittenHappenedDeterminedFleshDietsVegetablesVegetarianismSingularity Book:Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography Source: Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography
“I could've written songs about, for example, the Paris attacks as they happened and have the song out the day after, but doing this project and following the news made me realize how much I miss deeper nuances in the news reporting. There's already so many quick opinions and angles being thrown in your face, so I avoided writing about things like that and tried focusing on the smaller, more seemingly insignificant things. The things you would find in the back of the newspaper or the back of your mind.” WritingMindMadeFacesSongRealizingOpinionWrittenHappenedMissingExampleProjectsNewsFollowingDeeperNewspapersParisThrownYour FaceAngleInsignificantAvoidedNuanceInsignificant ThingsNews Reporting Author:Jens Lekman
“And out of the blue, I got a call from an editor friend at Knopf and she said that they were interested in putting out an update for their vintage paperback line. So I was more than thrilled and it was suggested that perhaps I could do a 1,000 word new introduction covering what's happened with the whole Warhol thing since 1990 when the first edition hardcover came out and, uh, that was about August 1st and I sat down at my computer here in East Hampton and on on August 30th I'd written almost 10,000 words!” FirstsSaidWholeLinesWrittenHappenedComputerBlueEastSatEditorsIntroductionCoveringAugustVintageWarholUpdatesHamptons Author:Bob Colacello
“I wish it was clear for me how it happened [stop writing songs], then maybe I could start writing again. But it's kind of an "it." It just submerged itself. Because the way I had always written was just that it came out. It just happened.” WayWritingKindSongWishClearWrittenHappenedWriting SongsSubmerged Author:Joan Baez
“If I'm not mistaken, I believe it was written beforehand. And it just happened in rehearsals Basically giving each person their vocal-line and I ended up getting that line! I'm so grateful I did because it was really special to sing that and you feel something when you sing it it's a very distinct piece that fits perfectly in the production.” IfsGivingFeelsBelievePersonsI BelieveLinesPiecesWrittenHappenedSpecialFitGratefulProductionsMistakenVocalRehearsalSo Grateful Author:Kendra Kassebaum
“So many times, I will have people tell me what I did when I was younger. There's so much being written [about] the early Beatles period, and even pre-Beatles period. And people will say, "Oh, he did that because that, and that happened because of that." And I'll be reading and think, "Well, that didn't happen" and, "That's not why I did that." Like anyone's history, you remember what went down better than people who weren't there.” PeopleThinkingWellsHappensRememberReadingWrittenHappenedPeriods Author:Paul McCartney
“I'd just written the book Ocean Of Sound, and this terrible thing happened in my life: my wife committed suicide. I was a single parent because of that; I was completely shattered. I had a book that I'd just finished that had been produced through a really, really terrible period, but I had managed to finish it.” BookParentSoundWifeWrittenHappenedPeriodsTerribleOceanSuicideCommittedMy WifeFinishedThings HappenTerrible ThingsShatteredSingle Parent Author:David Toop