Write Quotes
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We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out.
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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 do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.
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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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Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.
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Anyone who says, “Here’s my address, write me a poem,” deserves something in reply. So I’ll tell you a secret instead: poems hide. In the bottoms of our shoes, they are sleeping. They are the shadows drifting across our ceilings the moment before we wake up. What we have to do is live in a way that lets us find them.
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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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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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A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.
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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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That's just the music industry. They always want you to write something like the one that was popular.
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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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I don't write music for critics or hipsters. I write for me.
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'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.
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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 don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.
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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?
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We speak naturally but spend all our lives trying to write naturally.
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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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If you try to write a novel in L.A., you're a chump; everyone is speeding by, and you're driving a rickshaw.
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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.
