Marshall Bruce Mathers III (Eminem) Quotes
		
	
	
	
	
	
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		Even in the beginning, when we knew there was a legal argument about how much our song sounds like his song, as one songwriter to another, I wasn't sure that Cat Stevens would take that as bad.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Wayne Coyne
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		With the release of her fourth album, 'Red,' in 2012 and a handful of highly publicized romances, Taylor was criticized by the press and other entertainers for such sinful acts as dating people and writing songs about it, gaining a reputation as boy-crazy and love-ridden.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Tavi Gevinson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I've got plenty of quirks. I go to an office early in the morning. Early in the morning is really good writing time. I take anywhere between six to eight showers a day. I'm not exaggerating. I'm not a germaphobe: it's all about a fresh start.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Aaron Sorkin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it becomes part of the texture of the play. For a writer, that's thrilling. That's when my pen flies.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Laura Wade
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It was failing part of my Ph.D. that led me into novel-writing. By then I was 29, had remarried and had a second baby. It struck me that I'd lost my path in life and I felt frustrated. That's when I started to write.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kate Atkinson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Natalie Goldberg
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
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		With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching a scene from a film, and that's what I go about trying to catch in a song.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				P. J. Harvey
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Harrison Birtwistle
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Vikram Rohit Shetty
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Mahershala Ali
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		It is such a gift to be able to write songs in general, but when you can share it with somebody, it is just such a pleasure. It is such a happy moment when you finish a song, and you are just like, 'Wow - that was great.'
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Valerie June
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				E. B. White
			
		
	
	
  
	 
	
		
		
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		I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right around that time I read 'The Day of the Jackal' and 'The Exorcist'. I hadn't read a lot of commercial fiction, and I liked them.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				James Patterson
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		Independent graphic novelists have already achieved good work in terms of design, but all these great minds are writing in English. There is a need for people to write in Hindi.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Anurag Kashyap
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		(On signing autographs for troops) I'd be writing To Private so and so, love Kathy Griffin and then I'd go 'here, think about this when you beat off'.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Kathy Griffin
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		For writers from working-class families, the making of art is cultural disenfranchisement, for we do not belong in literary circles and our writing rarely makes it back home.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Valerie Miner
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		...after a certain quantity, photos apparently taken by chance, postcards chosen according to a passing mood, begin to trace an itinerary, to map the imaginary country that stretches out before us.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Chris Marker
			
		
	
	
  
	 
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		I have a hard time memorizing stuff. I'm always in the process of writing a new song, so trying to learn a new one takes a minute.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
						
					
				
				Marshall Bruce Mathers III
			
			
				Bad Meets Evil'