Jhumpa Lahiri
Related There's something special about writing by hand, writing with a fountain pen, and there's so... JOE HALDEMAN I never know, when I start writing a story, what's going to happen, or how it will all get sorte... JACQUELINE WOODSON Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actu... CHRIS MATTHEWS The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or... KAREN THOMPSON WALKER 'Seize the Story' takes readers all the way through the process of writing fiction, from beg... VICTORIA HANLEY JHUMPA LAHIRI If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing ... DANA BRUNETTI Most memoir writers will tell you that the hardest part of writing a memoir isn't what to includ... KATHLEEN FLINN ZOE KAZAN One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've expe... KATE GRENVILLE Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if y... ADAM CLYMER CHANG-RAE LEE TRENT REZNOR C. JOYBELL C. Writing has taught me a lot - though far from everything - about writing, so as time has passed, it ... CHARLES MCCARRY Reviewing music or reviewing anything is a writing job. It's nice if you are experienced in the ... VIRGIL THOMSON Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of... C. K. WILLIAMS Anybody who likes writing a book is an idiot. Because it's impossible; it's like having a ho... LEWIS BLACK PAULO COELHO I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES JOSHUA FOER I have a number of friends that try to live off their writing, and there's way more pressure for... JOE MENO The fun thing about writing a book with multiple paths and multiple endings is you really get to exp... RYAN NORTH FERDINAND MOUNT E. L. DOCTOROW MAYA ANGELOU KEITH RICHARDS ELLEN ULLMAN CHARLIE KAUFMAN (from chapter 29, "Write In a Book What You See")EUGENE H. PETERSON KEANU REEVES The problem is when you are writing something in retrospective, it needs a lot of courage not to cha... BOUTROS BOUTROS-GHALI BILLY CRUDUP LEE UNKRICH Write it. Just write it. Write it on receipts in the car while you wait for your kid to finish their... MELODIE RAMONE STANLEY KUBRICK If you look at most women's writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way ... LORRIE MOORE Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you l... ADAM CLYMER ALICE MUNRO I have seen and really liked the varied movie adaptations of the book, but 'Little Women' ha... SUSANNA KEARSLEY JOYCE MAYNARD SAM SHEPARD PAULO COELHO She directs one of the finest breast-cancer centers in the country. We get a lot of cancer survivors... SUE PROSSER SUZE ORMAN COLIN HAY I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window SUZY DAVIES ANNE HATHAWAY Cram your head with characters and stories. Abuse your library privileges. Never stop looking at the... JENNIFER WEINER With a series, keeping the quality high and writing incredibly fast, that's the first lesson you... ALEX KURTZMAN HANS-ULRICH OBRIST Depending on what I'm working on, I come to the writing desk with entirely different mindsets. W... EVAN HUNTER When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the ou... PAT BARKER Many people think that it is important to have a title before you begin writing the book, but I thin... DARREN SHAN Writing and creating, those things come to me on their own. I feel like... you sort of summon them a... RYAN ADAMS The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try ... BERRY GORDY True confession time: I never know where a book is going. I get a gut feeling the story is there, th... JANE LINDSKOLD As a film director and as film actors, you get used to a certain rhythm that's slow. But with TV... LEE DANIELS 'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to... HANNAH MURRAY What discoveries I made in the course of writing stories all begin with the particular, never the ge... EUDORA WELTY The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. ... DICK WOLF Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it&... ALISON BECHDEL NEIL GAIMAN There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never quite know where th... BEATRIX POTTER CARSON MCCULLERS CHRIS CORNELL TOM WAITS Writing helps me to create order out of chaos and make sense of things. It helps me to understand wh... MIRIAM TOEWS I take it he has a little confidence again going back into the playoffs. Whatever people were writin... BOB MOTZKO PAUL ENGLE Some film actors want to sit back and look at every scene and all that crap. No, you're an actor... CLARKE PETERS JOYCE CAROL OATES For her, the news that this disaster was coming their way was very frightening. We can all be certai... SUE KOUF PHIL KLAY I intentionally approached each story in 'Killing and Dying' in a different way, and that in... ADRIAN TOMINE LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature ... KAREN THOMPSON WALKER AMY TAN TADANOBU ASANO CATHERINE HARDWICKE As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy ... SOPHIE THOMPSON People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's ac... DAVID WALLIAMS I can tell you that the book 'The Ugly Truth' is about puberty and all the awfulness that co... JEFF KINNEY The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE DAN BROWN DEEPAK CHOPRA There's a lot of writing in television that can sound like it's taken out of a package, and ... BEN BASS BEN SHAPIRO TRACEY EMIN JOHN GEDDES DAVID IGNATIUS There's something about the idea of writing, and thinking about writing as a form of prayer - th... RUTH OZEKI HAROLD BLOOM For me, it's always about what's on the page. I have tremendous respect for writing. When yo... NESTOR CARBONELL There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hun... JACK PRELUTSKY WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS ISABEL ALLENDE My approach with social media is to interact with the readers I already have. I do it mostly to proc... HUGH HOWEY JOSé N. HARRIS CARL HIAASEN
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