Writing

Lana Del Rey Singer-Songwriter

Writing

"A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York."

Writing New York Feels

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Lana Del Rey Singer-Songwriter

Writing

"I don't really care about how good a song is, I only want them to reflect what I felt when I was writing them"

Writing Song Care

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J. R. R. Tolkien Novelist, Scholar

Writing

"grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mould of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps."

Writing Dark Long Ago

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Ice T Rapper, Actor

Writing

"Jay-Z is like a rap-savant, he doesn't have to write the rhymes down, he can create complex raps in his head. I mean he does memorize it, he just doesn't write it down on paper. He doesn't freestyle onto the track, it's all thought out."

Writing Mean Rap

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Galileo Galilei Astronomer, Physicist

Writing

"But, because my private lectures and domestic pupils are a great hinderance and intteruption of my studies, I wish to live entirely exempt from the former, and in great measure from the latter. ... in short, I should wish to gain my bread from my writings."

Writing Wish Research

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Gardner Dozois Science Fiction Editor and Writer

Writing

"To write good SF today...you must push further and harder, reach deeper into your own mind until you break through into the strange and terrible country wherein live your own dreams."

Writing Country Dream

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Zoë Heller Author, Journalist

Writing

"I don't write books for people to be friends with the characters. If you want to find friends, go to a cocktail party."

Writing Book Party

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Orhan Pamuk Novelist, Screenwriter

Writing

"I think a lot about the poems I wasn't able to write...I masturbrated...Solitude is essentially a matter of pride; you bury yourself in your own scent. The issue is the same for all real poets. If you've been happy for too long, you become banal. By the same token, if you've been unhappy for a long time, you lose your poetic power...Happiness and poverty can only coexist for the briefest time. Afterword either happiness coarsens the poet or the poem is so true it destroys his happiness."

Writing Real Pride

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb Author, Statistician

Writing

"Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say."

Writing

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Natalie Musician

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"There is freedom in being a writer and writing. It is fulfilling your function. I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it."

Thinking Writing Mean

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Malcolm Gladwell Journalist, Author

Writing

"I write my books to challenge my own feelings and theories. Perhaps most surprising was what I learned about rice farming. It was really interesting to think of how different Asian and Western cultures are as a result of the kinds of agricultural practices that our ancestors used for thousands of years. The life of a Chinese peasant in the Middle Ages was so dramatically different from the life of a European peasant - night and day different."

Writing Book Night

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Jack Bruce Musician

Writing

"I played upright bass. I wanted to write great tunes, play the bass, be a band leader, and smoke a big funny pipe like Charlie Mingus. So I went out and bought the pipe when I was around 18 or 19 years old. You know even women smoke a pipe in Glasgow. I worked with Carla Bley and she smoked a pipe, which I find fascinating."

Writing Years Play

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Jack Kerouac Novelist, Poet

Writing

"Writing at least is a silent meditation even though you’re going a hundred miles an hour."

Writing Meditation Silent

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Jack Kerouac Novelist, Poet

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"Because I cannot write my native language and have no native home anymore, and am amazed by that horrible homelessness of all French-Canadian s abroad in America."

Writing Home Native Language

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Jack Kerouac Novelist, Poet

Writing

"Never mistake talking about writing for actual writing."

Writing Mistake Talking

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Imelda May Singer, Songwriter

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"My music is a mix of everything, mostly my own life. I just write about things that mean something and that I can write about. There's no point in pretending."

Writing Mean Pretending

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Indira Gandhi Politician

Writing

"The longer one doesn't write, the more difficult it is to communicate."

Writing Difficult Letters

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Ingmar Bergman Film Director, Screenwriter

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"Either I did away with that fear through writing, or in the course of writing, I discovered it was no longer so intrusive or threating. The bottom line is, it's gone."

Writing Lines Gone

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Oscar Wilde Writer

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"It is personalities not principles that move the age."

Writing Moving Personality

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Nathaniel Hawthorne Novelist

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"The greatest possible mint of style is to make the words absolutely disappear into the thought."

Writing Style Disappear

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