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When I write the set, I try to create something that will not only be interesting for the audience, but will have a flow for the band, too, so we don't get boring.
Dave Matthews
When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting.
Sara Zarr
Tags: Get Really Know
I think it's good not to make demands on the reader too early. But as the poem goes on, I want the journey of the poem to lead into some interesting places.
Billy Collins
I do want to write about Jane Whitefield again, but only when I have a good enough idea - something I've figured out about her that's news and that's worth a reader's time.
Thomas Perry
Tags: Time Good About
It's real easy for me to write a lot of stories. I just go and I live through something, and I go home and write about it. It's that quick.
Harvey Pekar
Tags: Home Me About
A straight writer can write a gay novel and not worry about it, and a gay novelist can write about straight people.
Edmund White
I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
E. L. Doctorow
Tags: You Me Just
If something gets too easy... I want to do something else. But every album is going to be me, no matter what.
Skrillex
Tags: Me Want Going
Organize yourself so you aren't struggling to shop at the last minute. When you have real food, it's very easy to cook.
Alice Waters
Tags: Food You Very
It gets too easy to write from the point of view of a male character of my age, with the same cultural frame of reference.
Steven Heighton
Tags: Age Too Same
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Comedies are something I'd be very interesting in doing.


David Naughton
To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.
Garry Disher
Tags: You Were Many
I got good notice from that show, and on the last day of filming Townies, Twentieth Century Fox called wanting to meet with me about a development deal.
Jenna Elfman
Tags: Good Me About
The particular way I'm going to die is not going to be particularly pleasant. It will probably be physically uncomfortable, and it won't be an easy thing for my wife and kids to watch. I think it will be a real challenge to see if I can squeeze the lemons hard enough to still get lemonade the last few weeks.
Randy Pausch
Tags: Think Get I Think
It is very important as a human being to be able to laugh at yourself and circumstances and particularly as a Christian. We have to know that good times don't last always and bad times don't last always.
Yvette Nicole Brown
Tags: Good Always Know
I always find myself stopping to write down ideas of things I'd like to make from computer hardware items to things new moms need - inventions to share with others to make their lives more fun or interesting or easy.
Lisa Loeb
Tags: Like More Always
I'm just into making quality stuff if I can, with interesting people and good scripts. But it's very important that it's about something and that it says something. Otherwise, I don't know what the point is, really.
Ewan McGregor
Tags: Good People About
I wonder if I ever thought of an ideal reader... I guess when I was in my 20s and in New York and maybe even in my early 30s, I would write for my wife Janice... mainly for my poet friends and my wife, who was very smart about poetry.
Kenneth Koch
Tags: Poetry About Who
I tell people this: It's hard to write about walking in the park, but it's easy to write about a breakup.
Kris Allen
Tags: People About Hard
It's easy to show terrible people's behavior on screen, and we all just kind of nod and go, 'Isn't that terrible.' It's more interesting when you can show terrible behavior in the interest of something good.
Damien Chazelle
Tags: Good You People