Write Quotes
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If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills.
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You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.
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Paris is an unsolved puzzle. She inspires me in a way that other places don't. And she demands more of me. Just try to write about her without bumping into cliche after cliche.
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I'd love to say that I could write political songs, but I don't feel clued-up enough.
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When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.
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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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We speak naturally but spend all our lives trying to write naturally.
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It's a lot easier to write about people when you're not living with them!
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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 write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it.
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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 guess what attracted me about the philosophy aspect was that it was realistic. It didn't go off into the realm of imagination land, which I find a lot of religious teachings, actually almost every religious teaching does. I keep meaning to write this up as a blog post, but lately, while driving in my car I've been listening to a religious station that comes on out of Cleveland from the Moody Bible Institute.
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'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.
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That's just the music industry. They always want you to write something like the one that was popular.
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I don't write music for critics or hipsters. I write for 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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Write to one person, not a million.
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I always write the pieces I want to write.
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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don't, for any reason, ever tell the truth.
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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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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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Every writer has written a spec. It's the first thing you write, and it basically stands as a means of, 'Here's an example of how I tell stories.' It's almost like a business card.
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I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?
