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'Diary of a Teenage Girl' was my first American movie. It was my first movie in an American accent. It's based on a graphic novel, which was written in 2002 by someone called Phoebe Gloeckner. It was turned into a play by Marielle Heller, who then wrote it as a screenplay for Sundance Labs.
Bel Powley
Tags: Who Which Then
I wrote 'Don't Look Back' in November 2011, and when I wrote the novel, it wasn't contracted, so there was a freedom in that - no expectations or anything like that. It was also my first contemporary novel I'd written and sold, which was to Disney/Hyperion in January of 2012.
Jennifer Armentrout
I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since.
Sue Grafton
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I've never written a book before.


Keith Emerson
Tags: Never Before Book
George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.
Paul McCartney
Tags: Money Anger Out
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I wrote the worst novel ever.


Sophie Ellis-Bextor
Tags: Ever Wrote Worst
My career seems to have worked out OK, especially since I turned 40. I've always had a character part, mind you - I've never played the princess. But if you're used to doing that, it must be soul-destroying to hit 40 and suddenly find there's nothing for you to do.
Siobhan Finneran
Tags: You Out Always
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I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.


Tracy Kidder
Tags: About Wrote Novel
I think the worst and most insidious procrastination for me is research. I will be looking for some bit of fact or figure to include in the novel, and before I know, I've wasted an entire morning delving into that subject matter without a word written.
James Rollins
Tags: Morning Me Think
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The problem turned out to be that I never was that kind of an artist.


Todd Rundgren
Tags: Out Never Kind
I originally wrote 'The Martian' as a free serial novel, posting one chapter at a time to my website.
Andy Weir
Tags: Time Free Wrote
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The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.


W. Somerset Maugham
Tags: Great Been Only
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Poverty existed before January 20, 2008, OK? Before President Obama took office.


Hill Harper
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No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.


H. R. Giger
Tags: Work Out Never
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I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.


John Irving
Tags: Out Know Will
I've written short stories from male perspectives before, and I've never had a problem with it as long as I've understood the character's emotions and motivations.
Sara Shepard
Tags: Had Never Long
A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme.
Diane Johnson
Tags: About Out Even
Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much to do with what I'm going through personally or a problem I'm trying to work out. When I wrote my novel 'Baby,' my three children had all just gone out the door.
Patricia MacLachlan
Tags: Time Work Just
I started out as a novelist and wrote several novels before deciding to publish one, and I fully intend to go back to the form.
Pankaj Mishra
Tags: Out Go Back
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I did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen.


Cameron Diaz
Tags: Did Before Turned