“I was writing very early, like I was involved in our high school literary magazine, which was called 'Pariah.' The football team was the Bears, and the literary magazine was 'Pariah.' It was great. It was definitely a real sub-culture. But I wrote stories for them.” WritingRealStoriesSchoolCultureTeamFootballBearsInvolvedHigh SchoolMagazinesFootball TeamPariahs Author:Tom Perrotta
“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's always flattering when somebody you really respect and like wants you to be involved in their project - let alone writes a part with your voice in mind.” WantWritingMindVoiceInvolvedProjectsFlattering Author:Chris Messina
“Writing a column, a weekly column for the New York Times, is really tough, and I wasn't prepared for the demands that that involved.” WritingNew YorkInvolvedDemandToughPreparedColumnsNew York Times Author:David Plotz
“Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years. I didn't get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.” ThinkingWritingYearsArtMovementGrewInvolvedAreasGet InvolvedEcologicalPublic Art Author:Agnes Denes
“Professors will lecture with more inspiration if they occasionally alternate the classroom with the beach: authors will write better when, as Macaulay used to do, they write for two hours, then pitch quoits, and then go back to their writing. But certainly more than the mere mechanical alternation is involved.” IfsWritingTwoInspirationUsedHoursInvolvedMerePlanningBeachProfessorsClassroomLectures Book:The Courage to Create Source: The Courage to Create
“For a dyed-in-the-wool author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. ... She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up.” WritingBookSeemsGrowingWrittenInvolvedCatKittenWool Author:Rumer Godden
“I know if I wasn't making music and acting, I would be involved in the performing arts world in some way. I would be either writing and making music for other artists or producing movies.” IfsKnowsWorldWayWritingArtWould BeArtistActingInvolvedPerformingArt WorldPerforming ArtsProducing Movies Author:Claudia Lee
“I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one for myself. When Anne Sexton admonished me, "We are all writing God's poem," I took it to mean there should be no competition between writers because we are all involved in a common project, a common prayer. But to Gore's and Norman's generation, particularly those male writers who served in the second world war, the prizefighter paradigm remains.” WorldShouldWritingMeanWarHardHatePrayerCommonGenerationsInvolvedProjectsRemainsCompetitionMalesWar Of The WorldsParadigmGoreSecond World WarSelf Hate Author:Erica Jong