“I grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected. And all of my friends were good girls too, and my boyfriends were good boys. Everybody was pretty nice. And that affects how I write my characters. There aren't very many bad guys in my novels.” WritingCharacterGuyGirlCommunityBoysNovelNiceGrewGrew UpMy FriendsExpectedExceptionBad GuysMy BoyfriendGood GirlGood Boy Author:Stephenie Meyer
“I think the musicians I play with solo do a certain thing that the musicians we play with with the Indigo Girls don't do. It's just a different thing. And it sort of steers my writing in some ways.” ThinkingWayWritingDifferentPlayCertainGirlMusicianDifferent ThingsSoloSteersIndigo Author:Amy Ray
“I am involved with 'Write Girl,' which is such a great organization, because they go into inner city schools and work with underprivileged girls to pair them up with other writers. And it gets them learning to express themselves and become familiar with their own voice. They have a 100% success ratio getting those girls into college.” WritingSchoolGirlVoiceCitiesCollegeInvolvedOrganizationFamiliarPairsRatiosInner CityUnderprivilegedGreat OrganizationsInner City Schools Author:Melissa Rosenberg
“It is very, very difficult for a playwright to write a scene in which a young man has his first deep experience of sex with a girl whom he found immensely attractive, is fully satisfied by this event and gets up and blinds a lot of horses.” MenWritingFirstsYoungGirlFoundSexDifficultEventsSceneHorseSatisfiedGet UpAttractiveYoung ManPlaywright Author:Peter Shaffer
“I certainly didn't say while writing 'Gossip Girl,' 'Oh this is going to be big!' It was really like, 'Oh god, everyone's gong to hate these people! They're so bratty!' But I actually think what is so appealing about them is the humor in them.” PeopleThinkingWritingBigsHateGirlGossipGongsGossip Girl Author:Cecily von Ziegesar
“I have no sense of what I should or shouldn't talk about. I just blather. Which is why it's fun to write 'Gossip Girl.' I do tend to just talk about anything.” ShouldWritingGirlFunGossipGossip GirlBlather Author:Cecily von Ziegesar
“I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that I was reading, so I decided that I would write a book about something I'd want to read if I was 16. It turned into a Cinderella story... I developed a proposal and the characters of 'Gossip Girl' for my job.” IfsWantWritingBookCharacterStoriesJobsYoungUsedGirlReadingAdultsDecidedSeriesYoung AdultUsed To BeGossipEditorsEditingProposalGossip GirlCinderella Story Author:Cecily von Ziegesar
“My biggest fear in writing 'Gossip Girl' was that the characters would sound like stereotypical rich, air-headed heiresses. These were my friends. They were smart and multifaceted. They had interests and passions. They wanted to become lawyers and doctors and writers and filmmakers.” WritingCharacterWantedGirlPassionSoundInterestRichAirSmartMy FriendsDoctorsLawyerFilmmakerGossipBiggest FearHeiressGossip Girl Author:Cecily von Ziegesar
“I'm used to always being different, in any context. People always want to know how I grew up, so I just say I grew up Muslim. That's the truth. Two Muslim girls can write me two extremely different letters - and they do. Some are very supportive, and some question what I do.” PeopleKnowsWantWritingTwoDifferentUsedGirlKnow HowGrewGrew UpLettersSupportiveBeing Different Author:Noureen DeWulf
“I try to gauge whether a girl likes me before I make a move. I would write a page-long note to a girl.If she wrote a whole page back, I knew she liked me, too. If she wrote back like two words, then I figured I'd move on.” IfsWritingTryingLongTwoWholeMovingGirlPagesNotesLikesGaugesMake A Move Author:Devon Werkheiser
“If you told me to write a love song tonight, I'd have a lot of trouble. But if you tell me to write a love song about a girl with a red dress who goes into a bar and is on her fifth martini and is falling off her chair, that's a lot easier, and it makes me free to say anything I want.” IfsWantWritingSongFallGirlTroubleEasierRedDressesBarsChairsTonightSay AnythingFifthMartiniFalling Off Author:Stephen Sondheim
“Female artists I love the most are Fiona Apple, Paramour and Regina Spektor - those girls that really write amazing songs themselves, and they're younger and cool. I'm not quite sure I could ever write songs like any of them, but if I could, I would.” IfsWritingArtistSongGirlFemaleApplesIf I CouldFemale ArtistsAmazing Song Author:Jennifer Damiano
“I am very impressed by The Carrivick Sisters, one of the best young duos I’ve heard. The girls sing and play as one and their work is characterised by great musicality. They are not only very talented instrumentalists and singers but they write really good songs as well.” WritingWellsPlayYoungSongGirlHeardSingersImpressedGreat MusicMusicalityDuosInstrumentalists Author:Ralph McTell
“When a boy writes off the world it's done with sloppy misspelled words If a girl writes off the world it's done in cursive.” IfsWorldWritingDoneGirlBoysSloppyCursiveMisspelled Words Author:Sage Francis
“I write a lot of songs about being in love, how beautiful women are but I've definitely experienced that other side of love where you're in a situation where you love a girl so much but you just know for a fact that she doesn't love you the same. "Grenade" is the extreme way of saying "I'd do anything for you and why can't I feel you would do the same for me?” KnowsWayFeelsWritingFactsBeautifulSongGirlSidesSituationLove YouExtremesBeautiful WomenBeing In LoveGrenade Author:Bruno Mars
“When I was a kid I would much rather have been a good baseball player or a hit with the girls, but I couldn't play ball. I couldn't dance. Luckily, the girls didn't want me. Not much I could do about that. So I started to draw and to write By the time I got to where I was attracting girls, I was already into work, and it was more important to me. Not that I wouldn't rather make love, but the work has become a habit.” WantWritingHas BeensImportantPlayKidsGirlPlayerHabitDrawsBaseballBallsWant MeMaking LoveBaseball PlayerGood Baseball Author:Shel Silverstein