Alan Furst
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APURVA GAGLANI NICHOLAS SPARKS I got an M.F.A. in acting from NYU, and part of our training is to learn how to use swords in combat... DANAI GURIRA I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English ... SALLY KIRKLAND I started writing juvenile novels around 1985. I never really thought of it as a career, but more as... NATSUO KIRINO I write novels and other things. JACK L. CHALKER In my twenties and early thirties, I wrote three novels, but beginning in my late thirties, I wearie... DAVID SHIELDS Honeymoon, a term we are all familiar with, is a specific reference to mead. The term comes from an ... PAMELA SPENCE I've still got a pin in my wrist that's about 8 inches long from that accident. I got hurt at some r... RUSTY WALLACE I didn't have any writer friends in college. I was a computer science major, but I was writing a... WATT KEY I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narra... DANA SPIOTTA CANDACE BUSHNELL GARTH NIX I have an English literature degree. I wanted to be the next great American novelist from a very ear... DANIEL SUAREZ In 1966, I attended Marquette University and graduated from the University of California at Santa Cr... LAURENCE YEP I've got a particular way of writing novels, and that carries over into the way I write comics a... KAREN TRAVISS OCTAVIA BUTLER SHAKIRA Any seminars or training, I can write that off. LESLIE MALONEY SOPHIE KINSELLA ALEKSANDAR HEMON PATRICIA BRIGGS SHAKIRA MOHSIN HAMID I write historical novels that haven't happened yet, BEN BOVA I entered a poem in a poetry contest around 1987, and the poem won and I received $1,000 for it. Tha... SHARON CREECH NICHOLAS SPARKS He's training real good. When I got him from Leonard Dorfman, he was in good shape and he's trained ... PATRICK GALLAGHER I never had any film training. I went to Northwestern. I studied education and theater. So it was al... ZACH GILFORD I never took any vocal training. MARVIN HAMLISCH SUSANNA CLARKE PAUL AUSTER I'm trying to write a nonfiction book at the moment, slot it in between the novels, and it really is... JONATHAN COE ELIZABETH GASKELL PAUL AUSTER I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts,... GARY JENNINGS I have a B.S. in Biology from MIT, an M.Sc. in Human Biology and a Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology ... PARDIS SABETI PAUL AUSTER I have written two medical novels. I have never studied medicine, never seen an operation. TAYLOR CALDWELL I. M. PEI Training is key in this whole field. There's always the day-to-day learning on how to work the pumps... BOB BLANCHARD DAVID DUCHOVNY ROBERT GALBRAITH At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally w... KATE BECKINSALE GEORGE R. R. MARTIN NATHANIEL PHILBRICK I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals... ERNEST J. GAINES QUENTIN TARANTINO MILAN KUNDERA I take a lot from everywhere. I take from music, architecture, novels, and plays. Anywhere that hits... ALEX WINTER JANE GOODALL I hadn't thought specifically about doing graphic novels until a couple of my friends got contra... SHARON SHINN PAULA HAWKINS I started training in martial arts when I was 7 years old. I got my first black belt at 13. KATHERYN WINNICK I think I would have been a writer, anyhow, in the sense of having written a story every now and the... JOE HALDEMAN KIM YOUNG-HA DOUGLAS ADAMS I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and ... EDAN LEPUCKI My last year in Montreal -- my last Spring [Training] -- I got released, TERRY FRANCONA DOUGLAS ADAMS I don't think I'm interested in writing women's novels anymore. CAROLYN SEE CANDACE BUSHNELL CARSON DALY CARSON DALY I'm a severe graphic novels junkie. People ask me about it, and I say I like the graphic novels.... DAVE PIRNER ELVIS PRESLEY We've got one person in training right now. We've got a slot at Auburn for one dog and a slot at Lan... GENE WILSON We've got one person in training right now. We've got a slot at Auburn for one dog and a slot at Lan... GENE WILSON LOIS LOWRY As an undergraduate at Amherst College, I was devoted to Dickensian novels and antiestablishment jou... HAROLD E. VARMUS BRIAN JACQUES MICHAEL MORPURGO We had the support of a lot of experienced trailer people to train the folks we hired. We conducted ... DALE MCGOUGH Some of that comes from offseason training. They do an excellent job in the weight room, CHRIS COLLINS J. K. ROWLING BOB MONKHOUSE KENDRICK LAMAR JOHN RIDLEY I may have been lucky with some sort of intuition, but I believe in training a great deal. DAVID SELBY I've made some films for the military that are teaching things like cultural awareness and leade... CARL WEATHERS I've got thousands of autographs. They're from the Fall League and Spring Training. I've got 10 5,00... THOMAS POORE DOROTHY ALLISON I've always had the wish, the nostalgia to be able to write detective novels. At heart, the prin... PATRICK MODIANO RICHARD FORD Our folks have done some really innovative training, ... For example, one organization actually fini... BARBARA FAST I like to read Bengali novels and short stories. I am not that fond of reading English books, as I d... ARIJIT SINGH CECELIA AHERN
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STEPHEN FURST When my parents died, they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases, one b... STEPHEN FURST You can eat a lot more vegetables than you can cotton candy. Bring on the veggies. Stay away from th... STEPHEN FURST The first time I ever did a play, in junior high school, I said to myself, 'Hey, people like me ... STEPHEN FURST I finally admitted that obesity and diabetes were part of a life-threatening legacy - and I had to d... STEPHEN FURST Like most severely overweight people, I had to hit a rock-hard bottom before I'd take responsibi... STEPHEN FURST I tell people I'm on a diet. If somebody sees me with a muffin, they'll think I'm off my... STEPHEN FURST I felt different from everyone else - like an alien. The looks I received when I was 320 pounds were... STEPHEN FURST Selling is simply the transfer of inthusiasm. ALAN ALAN WATTS I think most people have that crazy uncle they sit at Thanksgiving dinner with: someone they disagre... 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