"How can you contrive to write so even?"
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"I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing."
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"Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths."
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"My style of writing is very diffrent from yours."
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"I thought my life was mapped out. Research, living in the forest, teaching and writing. But in '86 I went to a conference and realised the chimpanzees were disappearing. I had worldwide recognition and a gift of communication. I had to use them."
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"At some point, my body will collapse. But I hope that my brain will still be working so that I can carry on with writing."
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"I love to write - it is a great source of reflection, especially as I continue to meet many new inspiring people."
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"I always loved animals. And when I was ten, I decided I had to go to Africa and live with animals and write books about them."
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"When I first started writing, I was living in England and I had that uniquely English sense of sarcasm, which has definitely seemed to have left me. I am a naturalized American and my sensibility has become far more American."
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"Whether you are inspired or not, the only way to unlock your creativity, is to start writing."
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"It's a funny thing, if I could choose anything to do, it wouldn't be to be in front of a camera because I've spent so much of my time, so much of my life trying to get really good at writing songs and playing instruments."
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"When you're writing a song with someone, it's a very personal process. The music has to be an organic experience, it can't be contrived, sometimes it is and I think people pick up on that."
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"I love writing and photography and the natural world that inspires them both. I'm working on getting as lost as I can in the beauty before it is completely wiped clean by the madness of man."
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"I started writing when I was 17. I got an acoustic guitar for my birthday after I discovered Bob Dylan and James Taylor."
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"I love writing with Colbie [Caillat]. We have something very magical together that's difficult to describe. We're very comfortable with each other, and that's really important for co-writing. I think both of us bring different things to each song."
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"Even before I started writing songs, that was one of my goals to be a writer, and I still have that goal. I've just gotten sidetracked."
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"When I was 17 I got a guitar for my birthday and started discovering Bob Dylan and James Taylor and the whole '60s thing, and that made me want to make songs, to go beyond just playing an instrument. I needed to write I guess."
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"For me, the challenge is just making great albums, because talent - and writing in general - is not tangible. There's no expiration date on it. At the same time, you might wake up tomorrow and be unable to write music."
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"I can't write story-songs, like I couldn't write a Bob Dylan or Tom Waits song. I can only write whatever weird phrases come into my head, and hope that they're good."
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"I am a big Brian Eno fan - the first few Brian Eno records are just absolute gibberish and he came up with a lot of lyrics by writing down loads and loads of random sentences and streams, and I find meaning in that music, even though he'd probably say it's absolute gibberish."
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