I'm just writing, writing, writing. I keep these tablets on me until I'm inspired to go back in and make the music. I never take a break from my pen, because I pride myself on that.

Kendrick Lamar

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The songwriting did come naturally; it really did. Like Joe said, the first song we ever wrote together was the song that got us signed, you know, so it was either luck, fate, or something in between.

Kevin Jonas

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I am very into lyrics. I start with what the words are saying, what the storyline is saying, like a good script. It should really capture me, do something for me. If I don't get it, it's not going to move people, and if it's not going to move people, it's not going to happen.

Ray Charles

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I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.

Kris Kristofferson

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I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write with the telephone and the doorbell ringing and conversation going on; I'm not that good a writer to write through all that!

Ray Charles

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I enjoy looking back on my life. I'm thinking seriously about starting to write about it.

Kris Kristofferson

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Everything that I write is sort of autobiographical, and I don't know that I'm getting better, but I'm certainly running out of time.

Kris Kristofferson

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I should be concentrating on writing pages

R. L. Stine

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Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.

R. L. Stine

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Believe it or not, my introduction to scary literature was 'Pinocchio.' My mother read it to me every day before naptime when I was three or four. The original 'Pinocchio' is terrifying.

R. L. Stine

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I've made myself laugh from some ideas - but I've never scared myself.

R. L. Stine

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Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that.

R. L. Stine

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Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.

Ken Kesey

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If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novels, find a book you do like.

Rita Mae Brown

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Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.

Rita Mae Brown

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I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.

Rita Mae Brown

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I have no idea what will come next in my writing life or life in general. I like not knowing, but I know what I want. That doesn't mean it will happen, but I'll give it my best try.

Rita Mae Brown

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It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.

Rita Dove

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I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.

Rita Dove

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I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.

Rita Dove

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If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.

Rita Dove

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To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything that is really going to matter to anyone else. It has to matter to you.

Rita Dove

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Rita Dove

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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.

Larry David

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I write short stories, and I wrote a play.

Rita Dove

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I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.

Rita Dove

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I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

Richard Powers

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The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.

Richard Powers

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I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

Richard Powers

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The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.

Richard Powers

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Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously.

Richard Powers

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In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.

Richard Powers

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I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

Richard Powers

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The best arguments in the world won't change a person's mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.

Richard Powers

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You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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I write music with an exclamation point!

Richard Wagner

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Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

Marianne Moore

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A writer is unfair to himself when he is unable to be hard on himself.

Marianne Moore

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I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

Robert Burns

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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

Robert A. Heinlein

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But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.

Robert E. Howard

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It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous

Robert Benchley

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The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon

Robert Benchley

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The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps

Robert Benchley

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The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.

Robert Anton Wilson

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It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

Robert E. Howard

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The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.

Robert Cormier

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I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.

Robert Cormier

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Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.

Robert W. Service

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The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.

Robert Orben

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"302 Writing Quotes

I'm just writing, writing, writing. I keep these tablets on me until I'm inspired to go back in and make the music. I never take a break from my pen, because I pride myself on that.

Kendrick Lamar

The songwriting did come naturally; it really did. Like Joe said, the first song we ever wrote together was the song that got us signed, you know, so it was either luck, fate, or something in between.

Kevin Jonas

Ray Charles

I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.

Kris Kristofferson

I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's very difficult to write with the telephone and the doorbell ringing and conversation going on; I'm not that good a writer to write through all that!

Ray Charles

Kris Kristofferson

Everything that I write is sort of autobiographical, and I don't know that I'm getting better, but I'm certainly running out of time.

Kris Kristofferson

I should be concentrating on writing pages

R. L. Stine

Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.

R. L. Stine

Believe it or not, my introduction to scary literature was 'Pinocchio.' My mother read it to me every day before naptime when I was three or four. The original 'Pinocchio' is terrifying.

R. L. Stine

I've made myself laugh from some ideas - but I've never scared myself.

R. L. Stine

Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that.

R. L. Stine

Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.

Ken Kesey

If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novels, find a book you do like.

Rita Mae Brown

Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.

Rita Mae Brown

I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.

Rita Mae Brown

I have no idea what will come next in my writing life or life in general. I like not knowing, but I know what I want. That doesn't mean it will happen, but I'll give it my best try.

Rita Mae Brown

It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing.

Rita Dove

I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.

Rita Dove

Rita Dove

If they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer.

Rita Dove

To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything that is really going to matter to anyone else. It has to matter to you.

Rita Dove

Rita Dove

And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.

Larry David

Rita Dove

I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.

Rita Dove

I think that if the novel's task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life - technology and science.

Richard Powers

The 'information novel' shouldn't be a curiosity. It should be absolutely mainstream.

Richard Powers

I'd like, each time out as a writer, to reinvent who I am and what I'm doing. That's one of the great pleasures and rewards of the occupation.

Richard Powers

The thing that makes reading and writing suspect in the eyes of the market economy is that it's not corrupted.

Richard Powers

Novel-writing is the only place where someone who would have liked to do anything can still do that vicariously.

Richard Powers

Richard Powers

I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design.

Richard Powers

Richard Powers

You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I write music with an exclamation point!

Richard Wagner

Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.

Marianne Moore

Marianne Moore

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

Robert Burns

Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.

Robert A. Heinlein

But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.

Robert E. Howard

It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous