"Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality."
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"Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind."
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"I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know. I'm always writing little lines and saving them for later."
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"I want to stop. I want to stay on Fårö, and read the books I haven’t read, find out things I haven’t yet found out. I want to write things I haven’t written. To listen to music, and talk to my neighbors. To live together with my wife a very calm, very secure, very lazy existence, for the rest of my life."
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"It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever."
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"I try to write relevant songs about life and whatever I'm going through and whatever people are going through."
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"I try never to focus on the radio, just find great songs, find emotion and just write the best songs you can. I think when you get fixated on trying to do something too accurate, it becomes more washed out and less what you intended it to be. So I think each time the challenge for me is to try and reinvent a little bit."
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"It's always performing for me. I write and I record so I can perform. It all ties to that. I've done it since I was a little kid. That's my absolute rush, is playing for different people every night, bringing something else to the table they've never seen."
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"I like to write scenes in the middle of the night. We could change every word of Family Ties between Monday and Friday."
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"When I write, I solemnly visit myself."
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"I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that I write, last with praise, I will at last have the people who understand me, those mine, the true family to be born in and be loved... I will only be understood in effigy, when affection no longer repays the dead the unaffection that was, when living."
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"Your poems are of interest to mankind; your liver isn't. Drink till you write well and feel sick. Bless your poems and be damned to you."
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"I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself."
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"The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction."
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"George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar."
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"Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even."
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"My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain."
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"That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time."
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"Ruth's writing is so joyful, funny and uplifting; it's always a real treat of a read."
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"Constant Penelope sends to thee, careless Ulysses. Write not again, but come, sweet mate"
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