"I can't write - out of all the things it takes to make music, lyrics are the thing I'm by far the shittiest at."
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"Whatever may be our natural talents, the art of writing is not acquired all at once."
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"The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never any soul."
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"Then I realized what separated us: what I thought about him could not reach him; it was psychology, the kind they write about in books. But his judgment went through me like a sword and questioned my very right to exist. And it was true, I had always realized it; I hadn't the right to exist. I had appeared by chance, I existed like a stone, a plant or a microbe. My life put out feelers towards small pleasures in every direction. Sometimes it sent out vague signals; at other times I felt nothing more than a harmless buzzing."
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"As long as the writer cannot write for the two billion men who are hungry, he will be oppressed by a feeling of malaise."
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"You see, the contemporary writer must write through his intimations of unease, while trying to elucidate them."
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"In the nineteenth century one had to give all sorts of guarantees and lead an exemplary life in order to cleanse oneself in the eyes of the bourgeois of the sin of writing, for literature is, in essence, heresy. The situation has not changed except that it is now the Communists, that is, the qualified representatives of the proletariat, who as a matter of principle regard the writer as suspect."
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"In Les Mots I explain the origin of my madness, of my neurosis. This analysis may help the young who dream of writing."
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"Everything in my past, in my training, everything that has been most essential in my activity up to now has made me above all a man who writes, and it is too late for that to change."
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"I don't think talking about myself making songs is a very interesting topic, there are so many other more engaging things to think about and write about."
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"It's so easy to think that this [celebrity] is reality; that people are lining up outside just to write down what I have to say. That's not real; that's weird."
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"I just love film making; all aspects of it. I love the idea of writing but I just don't feel like I could really do it. I didn't even graduate from school."
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"Headline writing is an art form."
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"Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury!"
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"Writing, as I experience it, means wringing out the heart/mind until it stops lying."
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"I'm removed in my real life, and unable to express certain things face to face. So I have always found myself in this fantasy world. That's why I started writing songs and stories from a very young age. I'd much rather walk around anonymously cooking up tales than face the people that I have known forever."
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"I write music, really, to make myself feel better."
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"I think I have a hard time expressing myself in my relationships. I use songs to tell people how I'm feeling. If I can't say 'I love you,' I'll write a song about it and hope that the person figures it out."
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"I speak Mandarin and can read and write a little. I took a few classes at Harvard to get better in my reading and writing skills."
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"All experience helps when you write."
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