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“I think people would actually be surprised by what we put out. Unfortunately the shadow that the original founders cast was that they were just artists that can't write books so people swept the whole of Image with that paintbrush.”

People Thinking Writing Book Whole Artist Shadow Originals Casts Founders Paintbrush

Author:Todd McFarlane

“I need to be very hungry all the time. I need to be very hungry to write.”

Needs Writing Hungry Amelie

Author:Amelie Nothomb

“It's while writing that suddenly a point of view appears: 'So, that's what I really thought about this thing'. Then it feels part of me.”

Feels Writing Views Point Of View Amelie

Author:Amelie Nothomb

“Luckily I haven't fallen into the trap, which has claimed so many writers, of living from day to day thinking 'Ah, I'll write a book about that.'”

Thinking Writing Book Havens Fallen Traps Day To Day Amelie

Author:Amelie Nothomb

“Of course you have memories, and these memories are convincing. But it's really at the moment when I write them down - when I write about my relationship with that Japanese boy in Ni d'Eve, Ni d'Adam - that they reach a degree of reality which is incandescent, that I've really conquered a story, understood it and feel that it is really part of me.”

Feels Writing Moments Stories Reality Courses Memories Boys Degrees Understood Adam Convincing

Author:Amelie Nothomb

“The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh.”

People Knows Writing Laughing Exciting Something New Aspire Going To Work Making People Laugh Exciting Things

Author:B. J. Novak

“Over the last 25 years, since a lot of science writing became accessible to layman, I've become quite a consumer of science. As a child, I wasn't streamed into science, and I regret that now.”

Writing Years Children Lasts Regret Consumers I Regret Layman

Author:John Noble

“I majored in journalism at Arizona State University, where I began writing the columns I write now, but I cannot, in good conscience, refer to myself as a writer. I'm a columnist, maybe a journalist, I guess I'm an author, but writer... no. That's not up to me to call myself, that's rather lofty. It's for the reader to decide.”

Writing States Reader Conscience University Journalism Journalist Columns Lofty Arizona Columnists

Author:Laurie Notaro

“I still use quill and parchment. I do e-mails, and I write, but I don't go around surfing too much.”

Writing Stills Use Too Much Mail Surfing Quills

Author:Oscar Nunez

“I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.”

People Writing Kids Tvs Internet Glasses Magnifying Magnifying Glass

Author:Oscar Nunez

“TV is a different animal these days. You can bring together really smart writing and directing, in-depth character development and really meaty political and emotional stories.”

Writing Different Character Stories Together Political Animal Emotional Tvs Development Smart Depth These Days Character Development Really Smart Different Animals

Author:Connie Nielsen

“As a singer, I just want to try to honor what the writers create - and as someone who's trying to write songs, I just hope I can stand in their company and not embarrass myself.”

Want Writing Trying I Can Song Company Honor Singers

Author:David Nail

“Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and used to write primitive adventures on that.”

Writing Firsts Home Used Adventure Computer Atoms Bubbles Teens Primitive Acorns

Author:Graham Nelson

“Writing a really general parser is a major but different undertaking, by far the hardest points being sensitivity to context and resolution of ambiguity.”

Writing Different Majors Hardest Resolution Sensitivity Ambiguity Undertakings

Author:Graham Nelson

“It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I’ve done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they’re always poems first.”

Writing Firsts Long Art Done Enough Song Painting Long Time Pursue Enough Time Had Enough

Author:Jason Newsted

“I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very ambitious - to say something about the human condition that hasn't been written before. Probably I will never succeed but that is what I strive to do.”

Want Writing Humans Evil Written Conditions Succeed Originals Strive Human Condition Ambitious Nature Of Evil

Author:Jo Nesbo

“I write something that I believe I've made up, and it's only when a friend later points it out to me that I realise I've been writing about myself again.”

Writing Believe Made I Believe Realising

Author:Jo Nesbo

“Thanks to the success of Henning Mankell and Peter Hoeg, there wasn't the same stigma attached to writing genre thrillers in Scandinavia as there was in many other cultures. Quite the opposite, in fact.”

Writing Facts Culture Opposites Thanks Genre Peter Stigma Thrillers Other Cultures Scandinavia

Author:Jo Nesbo

“The only pressure I feel is to write good books. And to not replicate the previous book. Whether you have a thousand readers or a million readers it doesn't change the pressure. I never feel tempted to give the reader what I think the reader wants.”

Thinking Want Giving Feels Writing Book Millions Reader Thousand Pressure Tempted Good Book Replicate

Author:Jo Nesbo

“I am always trying to write.”

Writing Trying Always Trying

Author:Joanna Newsom

“I have writing songs on my own for about six years.”

Writing Years Song My Own Six Writing Songs

Author:Joanna Newsom

“I wanted to write songs which I think is a different thing. I wanted to write music that is informed by folk music. The chord progressions are obvious references.”

Thinking Writing Different Wanted Song Folks Obvious Different Things Chords Progression Folk Music

Author:Joanna Newsom

“I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to.”

Writing Beautiful Writing Music

Author:Joanna Newsom

“Working on 'Raising Hope' is a very hurry-up-and-wait activity, and I just always liked the idea of being as productive as I can be. I write because I don't just want that time to dissolve, where I'm sitting in a trailer staring blankly at the paintings of moccasins that came with the trailer.”

Want Writing I Can Ideas Waiting Painting Activity Sitting Staring Productive Trailers Hurry Up And Wait

Author:Lucas Neff

“I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.”

Writing Stuff Rooms Paper Sitting Empty Performing Interviews

Author:Randy Newman

“I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.”

Writing Book Scared Publish

Author:Taslima Nasrin

“I have been writing poetry since 1975. My first poetry book was published in 1986.”

Writing Firsts Has Beens Book Writing Poetry

Author:Taslima Nasrin

“I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.”

Want Needs Writing I Can Culture Language Europe Bengali

Author:Taslima Nasrin

“When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid for my commitment to the truth and the way I live my life. I am prepared to pay more if I have to.”

Ifs Way Writing Past Process Pay Commitment Consequence Paid Prepared Interfere Writing Process Living My Life I Live My Life

Author:Taslima Nasrin

“So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?”

Should Writing Cutting Frustrated

Author:Ted Nelson

“Got good news and bad news for you, Mr. President. The good news is that Chief Justice John Roberts just saved your legacy and, perhaps, your presidency by writing for the Supreme Court majority to rule health care reform constitutional.”

“That the Op-Ed page is very important in readers' and the nation's perception of the Times, the perception of its editorial positions, and of its implicit editorial positions as expressed by the publisher's choice of people who are given the freedom to write opinion columns.”

People Writing Important Choices Given Nations Opinion Position Reader Perception Pages Publishers Columns Editorials Implicit

Author:Daniel Okrent

“I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication.”

Feels Writing Form Communication Mass Communication

Author:Frank Ocean

“I might just write a novel next. I don't know!”

Knows Writing Might Next Novel

Author:Frank Ocean

“The first four and a half years was me in the studio every day, writing songs for other people. I had jobs, too - eleven jobs. I worked at Kinko's, Fatburger, Subway - I was a sandwich artist - and I was a claims processor at Allstate Insurance.”

People Writing Years Firsts Jobs Artist Song Half Four Claims Studios Sandwiches Eleven Writing Songs Subway Half A Year Processors

Author:Frank Ocean

“It's time to start really writing some stuff, and I really wanted to write some stuff in the vein of the original Misfits, and this was really the first step in that direction.”

Writing Firsts Wanted Stuff Steps Originals First Steps Veins Misfits

Author:Gerald Caiafa

“I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate. I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.”

Way Want Feels Writing Book Romance Intimate

Author:Joseph O'Neill

“I'm completely cricketed out. If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man.”

Ifs Men Writing Cricket Happy Man

Author:Joseph O'Neill

“Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.”

Way Writing Littles Lying Bits Novel Deception Novel Writing

Author:Joseph O'Neill

“I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.”

Thinking Writing Has Beens Bits Periods Burden

Author:Leo Ornstein

“I'm really interested in writing a piece of music that will move you, that will really move you. That is really the only reason that I'm writing music.”

Writing Reason Moving Pieces Writing Music

Author:Leo Ornstein

“No, I think that a person writes a poem because they have an inner urge of something that they want to express, and I think it's that inner urge that you want to express when you write a piece of music.”

Thinking Want Writing Persons Pieces Urges

Author:Leo Ornstein

“You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.”

Writing Written

Author:Leo Ornstein

“Writing has always been the primary way I make sense of the world.”

World Way Writing Primaries Make Sense

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“I've been leading newsrooms for a while now and it's been an honor serving as Editor in Chief of N.J., but I really think that my best shot at moving the needle in politics is by getting close to it - by reading, reporting, tweeting and writing.”

Thinking Writing Moving Reading Honor Shots Chiefs Serving Editors Needles Best Shot

Author:Ron Fournier

“People ask me what I'm writing. They think I'm Sandra Tsing Loh. Or they ask about stand-up. 'No, that's Margaret Cho.' I really think there is this kind of glomming, that they think we are somehow all the same person.”

People Thinking Writing Kind Persons Asks Ask Me

Author:Sandra Oh

“There's nothing in the recent past I want to write about.”

Want Writing Past Recent Past

Author:Sinead O'Connor

“I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.”

Writing Grandma Visiting My Grandma Belgrade

Author:Tea Obreht

“What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.”

Writing Inspire

Author:Tea Obreht

“When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it.”

Writing Different Focus Details

Author:Tea Obreht

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