Write Quotes
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There are skills you pick up on in a clinical environment in terms of how to ask questions, what to look for, how to listen that serve one well when trying to write.
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Still photographs are the most powerful weapons in the world. Words and pictures have a continuing struggle for primacy. In my mind, a person can write the best story in the world; but a photograph is absolute.
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Those who write clearly have readers.
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I write songs in batches and then record them and then can't write again for ages. I try and build one song upon another, they may not obviously look inter-related but often one song acts as a springboard into another.
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I just want to write books or give talks which, if I were in the audience or I were the reader, I would appreciate.
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I don't write about adolescence. I write about war. For adolescents.
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I write in order to comprehend, not to express myself.
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I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.
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If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there.
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Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?
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He taught me everything I know. Every note I write I learned from that man upstairs. People rave over my arranging today, and I just think to myself, God bless Tommy Dorsey. If it hadn't been for him, I never could have done it.
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I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then, "Nowhere Man" came, words and music, the whole damn thing, as I lay down...Song writing is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed sleep.
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We write. How fortunate we are: The world does not close in on us. The world does not grow smaller.
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All I write about is what's happened to me and to people I know, and the better I know them, the more likely they are to be written about.
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The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.
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All that he has to do is to write and publish a very little book. Its title should be simple -- a few plain words -- My Heart Laid Bare. But -- this little book must be true to its title.
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Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.
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Don't leave you to go find your point of view and your story. You are all you have been given . . . this is who you are, and from where you ought and need to write.
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Pundits always have something to write about; the novelist just has a blank screen.
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I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books that are packaged to become films.
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Between each album I try to gain a new insight that I didn't have before and perhaps write a song about something that I've written about before, but from a fresh viewpoint.
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Critics write out of intellectual exercise, not poets. Poets write straight from the heart.
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All of us have failed to match our dream of perfection. I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. If I could write all my work again, I'm convinced I could do it better. This is the healthiest condition for an artist. That's why he keeps working, trying again: he believes each time that this time he will do it, bring it off. Of course he won't.
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It was a good chance for me to write lyrics that I was going to sing, I’ve always written lyrics for other people to sing. I thought. I’m going to write an album here, but i’m not going to write stuff that other people are gonna sing, because that would be pointless.
