Write Quotes
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There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography.
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I could probably have an idea one day and then go into the studio and really wanna write about just that idea that I have in mind. Or it can vary with just a simple beat and I just do a bunch of melodies on the track that inspire me.
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I didn't want to write another book about fraudulence.
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Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.
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I have this rule: It's like, if you write an amazing, cool song that you mean and then you go put your leather pants on and sing it in front of people; that's OK. But if you put your leather pants on and stand in front of the mirror and go, "Ok, I've got to write a song to fit these pants," then you're in trouble.
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'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.
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I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A.
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When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.
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It's hard to write new stuff when the songs you have written before are still changing and evolving. It would be like building something when the foundations there are not really solid.
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I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.
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I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.
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All this is rather pretentious and fey to even talk about, but Flannery O'Connor sat down to write stories. The rest of us, some of us, don't have that kind of wit and genius. We don't do that. We sit down and have some accidents.
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I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.
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For me, the guitar was just a tool to make songs. I started when I was 10 - I learned what I had to learn to get my ideas across. I always felt I was a weak guitar player, but now I realize with the finger-picking stuff, I actually know how to do what I do with my songs, but I couldn't step in and be an overall guitar player. But my guitar playing has always been driven by the need to write songs.
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I don't write music for critics or hipsters. I write for me.
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I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.
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I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me.
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... every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.
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By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware.
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I've always asked to be able to speak and write about injustice and to do it in a way that would encourage people to make things better for everyone.
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It's so, so awful for my entire body and my spine and my hands, and I have a perfectly good desk to write at, but I don't care. I love writing in bed.
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I do not write, I build.
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That's what I'd rather be doing more than anything. I love to play and perform and write, record, do whatever - just stay in music.
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I'd love to say that I could write political songs, but I don't feel clued-up enough.
