"I didn't write about aspects of my public life because that's a small part of my life."
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"It was no hardship to me to spend long hours reading and writing."
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"Writing code means always having to say you're sorry."
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"At some time in their careers, most good historians itch to write a history of the world, endeavor to discover what makes humanity the most destructive and creative of species."
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"The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them."
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"I don't write huge books any more. I used to write 1,000 printed pages, but now I write short books. I did one on Napoleon, 50,000 words - enjoyed doing that. He was a baddie. I did one on Churchill, which was a bestseller in New York, I'm glad to say. 50,000 words. He was a goodie."
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"The writer learns to write, in the last resort, only by writing. He must get words onto paper even if he is dissatisfied with them. A young writer must cross many psychological barriers to acquire confidence in his capacity to produce good work-especially his first full-length book-and he cannot do this by staring at a piece of blank paper, searching for the perfect sentence."
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"There are two things John and I always do when we're going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit down. Then we think about writing a song."
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"But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing."
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"Sometimes when you write a thing you think, 'Oh, this is good', and it's not a modesty or an immodesty thing, you just... it's just the same with anything; when you write a piece you just figure, 'Oh yeah, I'm on a roll here. This is good; I'm getting the hang of this'. Some pieces are better than others."
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"I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record."
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"I think a domestic situation can change you and your attitudes. I suppose if you did get a bit content, then you might not write savage lyrics."
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"I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... ."
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"People think once you get famous and rich you move out of the public sphere and you have nothing left to write about. I've heard that - Bruce Springsteen was this real street boy, now he's got this big house. How does that compute? If you don't look at the material side of someone's life, if you look at more the emotional side, there's always a wealth of stuff to write about."
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"I'm not into, Hey, what's your sign? or any of that. But I don't know how I got here, and I don't know how I write songs. I don't know why I breathe."
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"Every love song I write is for Linda."
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"John could write a mean song. He had a lot of venom in him. Whereas I had a happy childhood."
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"Domesticity is the enemy of art. I don't know if that's true. You can write good happy songs. So, I don't think it's necessarily happiness. But I think self-satisfaction is maybe the enemy. It's kind of better to think, "Tomorrow night I'm gonna sing it better." There is this forward effort. It feels to me right, it feels human."
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"I think when you're making an album, as the songs are piling up, one of the good things about it is that you will often write the song that you need."
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"I`ve said this when I pass the trade promotion authority law, which allows us to get trade agreements. If we write the rules of the global economy, we will succeed in the 21st century. But we have to write those rules, we have to engage, and I think the president [Donald Trump] said Trans-Pacific Partnership is not the way to do it."
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