Adam F. Goldberg
Adam F. Goldberg

My middle school years were defined by memorizing every single word off 'License to Ill' and 'Paul's Boutique.'

Anita Shreve
Anita Shreve

I start writing at 7.30 A.M. and write till noon. I've never written a single word after 5.00 P.M.

Anna Friel
Anna Friel

For Closer, we've had five weeks. You go into every single word because it's very, very concentrated dialogue.

Ashlan Gorse Cousteau
Ashlan Gorse Cousteau

Growing up in the '90s, I just loved 'Ice Ice Baby.' I knew, and still know, every single word to that song.

Ben Fogle
Ben Fogle

I eventually realised you don't have to understand every single word, and that reading in your head doesn't have to be perfect. Once I took that pressure off, it gave me confidence.

Chandra Wilson
Chandra Wilson

You're not going to find a more committed performer than Sandra Oh - to every single word, action, history that informs the future. Every little thing.

Clive Barker
Clive Barker

Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.

Daniel Dennett
Daniel Dennett

Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.

Douglas Hodge
Douglas Hodge

As soon as I walk down that sticky six-mile patterned carpet that welcomes you at Heathrow, I buy the Sunday papers and read the fashion supplements cover to cover. Even though hardly a single word in them seems directed at any male who ever lived, I find them compulsive reading.

Emma Healey
Emma Healey

While I was writing 'Elizabeth Is Missing' and struggling with the intricacies of the plot, I told myself the next book would be really simple and linear, and I'd have it all worked out before I set down a single word.