"Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human."
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"I find it easier to write in these little vignettes; if I try to get any more heavy, I find myself out of my league."
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"I suppose our lives need to be more integrated. We have white communities and black communities and white country clubs and black country clubs. It's very important when we integrate ourselves, and it helps us to have a better understanding of the world, to people all over the world and this is the time in history that we have become very aware of how important that is, so I think it's just really-we have to know each other and work together and play together in order to write about each other."
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"Here's the truth about telling stories with your life. It's going to sound like a great idea, and you're going to get excited about it, and then when it comes time to do the work, you're not going to want to do it. It's like that with writing books, and it's like that with life. People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen. But joy costs pain."
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"If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off."
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"Writing bridges the inner and outer worlds and connects the paths of action and reflection."
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"A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I'm crepuscular."
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"In terms of the economics, yes obviously the rise of e-books and how people choose to read books has a big effect on the economics of the game. But whether people are buying them on paper or downloading them there's still some poor wretch in a room who is trying to write a poem, write a story, write a novel. And so my job doesn't change. It's just how people receive it and economic conditions on the ground change, but that doesn't affect what I write."
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"Literary works cannot be taken over like factories, or literary forms of expression like industrial methods. Realist writing, of which history offers many widely varying examples, is likewise conditioned by the question of how, when and for what class it is made use of."
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"Paul and I, we never thought that we would make much money out of the thing. We just loved writing software."
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"You don't write a song to sit there on a page. You write it to sing it."
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"I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the darkness."
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"Judge your neighbor, write it down. Ask four questions, turn it around."
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"If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly."
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"Great novelists are philosopher novelists - that is, the contrary of thesis-writers."
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"Every writer, big or small, needs to say or write that the genius is always hissed at by his contemporaries. Naturally, this is not true, it happens only occasionally and often by chance. But this need within the writer is enlightening."
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"The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge, but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap"
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"In case my life should end with the cannibals, I hope they will write on my tombstone, 'We have eaten Dr. Schweitzer. He was good to the end.'"
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"It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense."
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"Write. Write until it stops hurting."
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