"The hardest thing is writing a recommendation for someone we know."
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"Always I try to write about people. People are interested in other people always."
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"Like with anything, good writing suggest itself pretty strongly."
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"Songwriting is a mysterious art. When I sit down to write a song, the end result should be mysterious and have this dark quality."
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"The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing."
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"Many have been deceived by outward appearances and have proceeded to write and teach about good works and how they justify without even mentioning faith.... Wearying themselves with many works, they never come to righteousness."
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"It is no use thinking that writing of poems - the actual writing - can accommodate itself to a social setting, even the most sympathetic social setting of a workshop composed of friends. It cannot. The work improves there and often the will to work gets valuable nourishment and ideas. But, for good reasons, the poem requires of the writer not society or instruction, but a patch of profound and unbroken solitude."
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"I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except maybe when I'm making love."
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"And I refuse to feel guilty about not letter-writing either. There are times when one can, times when one can't. In the times when an enormous amount of living is going on, one can't."
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"I've been writing joke songs since I was a kid and it served me well at S.N.L. I can write those in my sleep. In fact, I have."
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"I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write."
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"When criticism comes your way as an actor they are not criticizing your writing or your painting or your piece, they are criticizing you! It is hard to put that away in a place where you are not hurt."
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"That is as true for fiction or non-fiction. The writer has to really know their subject. It is really important to remember that the readers are a lot smarter than the writer. Also, good writing has to do with rewriting. You will never get it right the first time. So you rewrite and rewrite again until you get it right. Until you, and the reader, will be able to visualize what you're writing about."
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"During the years 1945-1965 (I am referring to Europe), there was a certain way of thinking correctly, a certain style of politicaldiscourse, a certain ethics of the intellectual. One had to be on familiar terms with Marx, not let one's dreams stray too far from Freud.... These were therequirements that made the strange occupation of writing and speaking a measure of truth about oneself and one's time acceptable."
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"I think that's the hardest part for an artist is finding their voice and learning how to write, finding what they have to say that is unique."
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"And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people."
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"I have the skills to pay the bills; you know, I can really sing, and write great songs."
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"In general I do not draw well with literary men -- not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication."
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"The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world."
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"I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer."
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