Write Quotes
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If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.
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I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.
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I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever.
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When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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I'm really not a journalist, and I don't do a ton of newsy pieces. Occasionally I'll write about something that's going on recently, but I really don't do a ton of stuff that's tied to current events.
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And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
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I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write.
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I really tend to write in retrospect.
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Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.
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I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.
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Not everyone can say, 'I'm going to write a classic today.' If that was the case, we'd all be doing it.
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I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?'
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'Jurassic Park' and 'Star Wars' shoved me into loving sci-fi and film in general when I was a barely coherent 3-year-old. And 'Lord of the Rings' took me to another planet entirely. Before that series, I knew I loved writing, but after, I knew that I had to write.
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Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.
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I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.
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I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.
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I'm not sure there are too many people who write what I write.
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As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I can't express myself that well in talk, so I write songs.
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I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
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Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.
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I write fifteen hours a day, stopping at Oprah-o'clock.
