Lin-Manuel Miranda developed a devotion to musical theater and hip-hop before attending Wesleyan University. Lin-Manuel Miranda is an award-winning actor, performer and writer known for his groundbreaking Broadway musicals 'In the Heights' and 'Hamilton.' Who Is Lin-Manuel Miranda? I treat it as a musical form, and a musical form that allows you to pack in a ton of lyric.” I kind of need to be ambulatory to write lyrics.” “There’s been lots of theater that uses hip-hop in it, but more often than not it’s used as a joke - isn’t it hilarious that these characters are rapping. That’s where the notebooks come in, sort of write what comes to me, bring it back to the piano. I’d make a loop of it and put it in my headphones and then walk around until I had the lyrics. To engender empathy and create a world using only words is the closest thing we have to magic.” “For 'Hamilton' what I’d do is write at the piano until I had something I like. But I think of Dickens, or Cervantes, or Márquez, or Morrison, and I can describe to you the worlds they paint and inhabit. My kind of writing requires collaboration with others to truly ignite. But it’s also one of the most beautiful books about the creative process I’ve ever read.” “I’m most in awe of novelists, who move sets, lights, scenery, and act out all the parts in your mind for you. Coyote chases the Road Runner down the margins of the page. I think I bought it as a kid because of the included flip-book: flip the pages, and Wile E. My favorite book growing up was 'Chuck Amuck,' by Chuck Jones.
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