The trick to writing for people is, you have to be able to turn them on in your head. And know how they'd word something or how they'd inflect it.
I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry.
Adele, Musician (1988) |
Henry Cavill, Actor (1983) |
Geoffrey Fisher, Clergyman (1887) |
Akhmad Kadyrov, Statesman (1909) |
Vincent Kartheiser, Actor (1979) |
Soren Kierkegaard, Philosopher (1813) |
James Branch Cabell, Novelist (1958) |
Ludwig Erhard, Politician (1977) |
Murray Kempton, Journalist (1997) |
Henri Laurens, Sculptor (1954) |
Arthur Laurents, Playwright (2011) |