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I suspect that authors who start their careers writing for an adult audience - and who eventually produce a young adult novel or two - are more common than authors who begin by writing for young adults and who then gravitate toward composing something for an adult audience.
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Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
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My personal theory is that younger audiences disdain books - not because those readers are dumber than past readers, but because today's reader is smarter.
Chuck Palahniuk
My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind.
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I love grey. My mom told me that when I was younger, I would get mildly depressed when it was grey all the time. I'd be darker when it was dark out. But as an adult, I really love it.
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Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.
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They change. They're different. There are no two alike, that's the miracle of it. But if they have something to teach the students. You can see them writing during the show.
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All of the sudden the audiences started getting younger and the spread of the attendance was really wide. I think it's as a result of the records selling more that they started following our careers.
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'Greek' is basically a show about sororities and fraternities. It follows Casey Cartwright, played by me, her younger brother, and all the people that are involved in their lives from the different fraternities.
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I listen to the audience and try and bounce with them. All audiences are different. But they are all homo sapiens.
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When I was younger, people kept making offers for different reality shows and stuff.


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Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.
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Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had.
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While I'm writing YA, I can't read YA, and the same with adult. I usually only listen to music while I'm writing YA.
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My younger brother and I have been writing together, mainly for fun, for years, but we've been improvising together since we were kids. Literally.
Ty Burrell
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Theater will never, and never has, gotten audiences like film. But theater goes to work on society in a different and more subversive way.
Athol Fugard
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All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.
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Certainly in the movie business there are bullies all over - bullies in the distribution business, exhibition business, production. Fine-tuning adult bullying is different. When a bully is an adult, it's a whole different set of colors.
Martin Kove
I tell stories about people audiences might think they have nothing in common with, then they emotionally connect with them and find they're not different at all.
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For me, as an actor, going from TV to film was interesting because TV and film are two very different things.
Aeriel Miranda
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