Peter V. Brett
Related The commute was hard at first, but I got used to it. I realized that Greyhound was the cheapest mode... STEVEN CHEW At least half my writing time is spent researching. So for every hour I'm actually clicking on t... GAIL CARRIGER JOYCE CAROL OATES In the back of my mind was the constant hankering, almost yearning, to write but something always st... MARY GARDEN During the dance of Giants, common man gets stomped on. BEN OAK ROBERT ENGLUND WINSTON CHURCHILL I got words in me, Jess, fighting to find a way out. Sometimes there's so many words and they get so... CAROLEE DEAN I came into this meet knowing I had a shot at winning the 100 and 50. That was my goal, so that's wh... AMANDA WEIR When I first got sick, they told me I had a year to live, and I was writing my memoir really fast. T... JOHN LURIE KARIN SLAUGHTER I still have the letter seating on my desk. I was so excited when I got it because I wanted to be on... LESLIE BROCKMAN I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard b... ALICIA WITT BEN OKRI Some of the feedback I got was very violent. I had two girls come to my room. I had threats of viole... LISA SMITH I used it for the first time during my practice round on Monday and shot a 64. JAMES KAMTE I got the F-bomb my first day on the job. I was still stuttering around and scared and hadn't said m... ANDREW NIELSON I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the key... VINCE CLARKE The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my... GALEN ROWELL When I was a poor and struggling writer, I made a vow that if ever I got lucky enough to write full-... EVAN HUNTER I had an insanely long commute - New York to D.C. - when I worked at 'National Geographic.' ... CHARLES M. BLOW My second album was written while I was on the road promoting the first record. I tried to take my p... KATE VOEGELE CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI When I became more involved in music, I had to give up some of my writing in the literary sense. How... TOM GLAZER JIM MORRISON During my first photo shoot, I was unhappy because they put so much makeup on me and straightened my... NORAH JONES SPIKE MILLIGAN My personal opinion is that, if you're a professional writer, that you do have quotas. So every ... CHRIS BOHJALIAN BILL HADER GIADA DE LAURENTIIS You don't know what questions to ask when you start. My first daughter spent three months in intensi... NADINE VOGEL During my youth, the idea of moving from Lebanon was unthinkable. Then I began to realise I might ha... AMIN MAALOUF JASON MORAN Learning operatic roles is ongoing, and I find that I can learn on the train or subway, during a man... RENEE FLEMING But when have I ever needed saving?TRACY WARD WALTER DEAN MYERS I got my first instrument at Christmas when I was three or four. My dad and mom got me a mandolin. I... CHORD OVERSTREET GAVIN ROSSDALE I was so excited when I got my name on my bag. Usually when you're an amateur, you can't have your n... MICHELLE WIE BAT FOR LASHES For a time period during my life, I didn't know whose life I was trying to live ? my mother's or min... JOAN RANDALL My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books w... TAO LIN TONY HAWK By 1990 I went back to no gasoline; I was just riding around on my bike, taking the bus. I had a tin... ED BEGLEY, JR. As soon as I am up, I brush my hair. I eat breakfast first: tea and brown bread, and sometimes a fre... SONIA RYKIEL While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door... MA JIAN CASEY WILSON JR My first acquaintance with 'Peter Pan' was back when I lived in South London. I was at art s... ROGER REES Starting at age four, my mom decided that she was not going to have an idle child in the house. So I... CHANDRA WILSON PETE ROSE ASHWIN SANGHI Some people become passionate readers and fans of science fiction during childhood or adolescence. I... PAMELA SARGENT WOODY HARRELSON DAVID ROCKEFELLER My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I ... BRENDAN GLEESON It just came on so fast. There was no way to know we were going to be trapped. I spent the first 35 ... BETTY HAGAN It just came on so fast. There was no way to know we were going to be trapped. I spent the first 35 ... BETTY HAGAN KATE FORSYTH My father instilled in me an attitude that you couldn't really enjoy yourself unless you had don... BEN ELLIOT MEGHAN MARKLE During the seven years that I worked as a management consultant, I spent a lot of time trying to loo... MATTHEW STEWART I think I took my first one when I was 6 or 7, and I hit the post. And I hadn't scored from then on. VINNY LECAVALIER Before I started Code for America, I spent my career around startups. First it was game developers, ... JENNIFER PAHLKA I just couldn't believe there was that many germs on my hand, I had just got finished from washing m... KERAH PEARMAN STEPHEN FRY I was a person who loved my job that is, until I had my son Hudson. Then leaving for a trip was no ... SHANNAN APRILE NATALIE IMBRUGLIA JACK MCBRAYER PATRICIA MCCORMICK ANNE LAMOTT On the rare occasions when my mother perfumed herself, she was going out, and so I rarely smelled th... MARY GAITSKILL See, me, I don't run away. During my successes or my failures, I put it on me. FAT JOE I'm Writing my stoy. But i'm also plotting my escape from this prison cell.CAROLEE DEAN ANAT COHEN JOHN GREEN ZENA WYNN I was a big fan of 'Six Feet Under.' So, I got a bootleg copy of the first four episodes on ... DENIS O'HARE I could describe my career in two words: who knew. I was on the path to becoming a professional base... SHEMAR MOORE That was also when I started thinking about breaking out on my own or taking a shot at becoming chie... RAJEEV DIDDY I think what happens is you write how you grew up. And I was born on the prairie, and so everything ... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN C. S. LEWIS KAREN FINERMAN I got my first pilot lessons for my 16th birthday, ... I was scared the first time I tried it, but I... ERIC HOFFMAN I used to cheerlead in high school, and I had the biggest crush on one of my teammates' brothers... JOSIE LOREN JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT HARRIET ANN JACOBS I do have an office where about 70 percent of my writing gets done, but sometimes it does get a bit ... JAMES ROLLINS ZAYN MALIK I felt my mouth go dry, my throat constrict. What possible interpretation could Peter place on those... JENNIFER PAYNTER ANNETTE BENING NATALIE BABBITT I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ... 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