Write Quotes
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So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?
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Usually when I write lyrics I try to read a lot and listen to a lot of other stuff. Some of my favourite lyricists are like Lou Reed, kind of the classics - Bob Dylan and stuff like that.
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No one can ever write about anything that happened to him after he was twelve years old.
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When I take up my pen to write, I feel the strength of standing up and refusing to be silent. In an oppressive situation, silence is death.
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But 'why then publish?' There are no rewards Of fame or profit when the world grows weary. I ask in turn why do you play at cards? Why drink? Why read? To make some hour less dreary. It occupies me to turn back regards On what I've seen or pondered, sad or cheery, And what I write I cast upon the stream To swim or sink. I have had at least my dream.
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So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.
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There is a difference between a great producer and somebody who is a big advocate of your music. Just because you're a big advocate for a band doesn't mean you need to be in the studio with them, and at the same time - we don't need to get into this conversation - you can write a hit, but it might not hit.
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I find it incredibly difficult to write anything that's really happy.
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I write what I don't know. It's way more interesting.
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I play the piano a lot at home, I write songs on the piano and guitar. I would like to actually play piano on stage... I don't think I'll get the chance for a while.
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Music is infinite and personal. I don't want to put myself in a box. I want to try everything and I'm trying everything. I'm really trying to write what's in my heart and what I feel without a lot of help in that department. It's about being brave.
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People try to be more edgy, or write about that first explosive meeting between two people in a club, but not so much the long-term issues; I don't know how to write a song about teenage heartbreak anymore.
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I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.
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All we know how to do is write music and love God.
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Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I have to write everything down.
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If I did not have the ability to write, I would find myself completely defenseless!
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In modern novels I try to not let myself get away and to be here, and that's why I write about my life and myself. But even when I do that there's an element of disappearing to a place that's not me. It's "the selflessness of writing". It seldom happens, but when it does it's worth quite a lot.
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When you write something it has to hit the level that you accept as being good.
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But basically, I'm trying to write a fun story.
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I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.
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It's easy to get into an easy routine but the problem with that is you can tend to write the same song over and over again.
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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 never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.
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Write like there is no tomorrow so that others may read about today.
