"The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know what is interesting and what is not."
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"Write. No amount of self-inflicted misery, altered states, black pullovers or being publicly obnoxious will ever add up to your being a writer. Writers write. On you go."
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"What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song."
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"I hate writing about personal stuff. I don't have a Facebook page. I don't use my Twitter account. I am familiar with both, but I don't use them."
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"If you wish to be a writer, write."
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"If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write."
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"All our words from loose using have lost their edge."
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"I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows."
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"Real work is completed in silence and strikes a chord in the minds of only a very few."
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"I've been able to tour because of my music and I've learned a lot about myself while on the road. I think some of the imagery of my writing are snapshots of where I've been and my feelings about the world."
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"I started freestyling with friends about eight or nine years ago. I started writing also around the same time, but didn't meet blockhead until about '94. I started making beats not until about '96."
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"You have the capacity to change the plot line of your life, even if you've been acting from the same script since before you can remember. No matter what has happened up to this point, you have the right and the capacity to be happy. You are an innately creative being, capable of writing a love story worth living."
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"I think the press does, too; it's just the few crazies and paparazzi that give them a bad name. Real writers write good things. My daughter's a writer, and she's a quality writer."
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"I think one of the dullest things in the world is a letter filled with apologies for not writing sooner."
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"I never write in the daytime. It's like running through the shopping mall with your clothes off. Everybody can see you. At night ... that's when you pull the tricks ... magic."
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"some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about."
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"I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script."
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"My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a waste of time."
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"Your writing is never as good as you hoped; but never as bad as you feared."
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"I improvise whenever I feel it's important, or whenever I think that something's there. It's nice to have a script that's so well-written that I don't have to improvise. I mean, I used to have to re-write whole movies; this is kind of nice."
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