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“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”

History Intend Write Kind
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To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

Express Common Wise People
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A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Book Bad Much Soul
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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

Write Hear Idea Brain
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Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.
Really Some Songs Strangely
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Life is a sweeter, stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he is still thee to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love.

Admire Honor Serve Experience
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Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.

Write Ability Endowed Nature
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I doubt I'll be singing forever, because at some point people aren't going to want to hear my music, and I hope that I'll still get the opportunity to write songs.

Doubt Singing Forever Because
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I wouldn't be able to write a song like 'Someone Like You' and get someone else to sing it because it's so personal. It's like giving away your heart.

Able Wouldn't Write Song
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Writers simply have to write, and not worry so much about what people think, because public opinion is such a difficult horse to ride.

Ride Horse Difficult Public
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If I am constantly working, my relationships fail. So at least now I can have enough time to write a happy record. And be in love and be happy. And then I don't know what I'll do. Get married. Have some kids. Plant a nice vegetable patch.

Constantly Working My Relationship
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In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing.

Could Evidently Full Hollywood
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I'm one of those people who has to write. If I don't write, I feel itchy and depressed and cranky. So everybody's glad when I write and stop complaining already.

Complaining Cranky Depressed Everybody
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In terms of love, you're not in control and I hate that feeling. I seem to write a lot of sad songs because I'm a very tragic person. But there's always an element of humour at the end.

Hate Write Tragic Person
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I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.

Always Aspiring Come Counsel
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Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.

About Chances Easier Find
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Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.

Achievement Any Demanding Everyone
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How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Down How Live Sit
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

History Main Main Thing Make
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In a mood of faith and hope my work goes on. A ream of fresh paper lies on my desk waiting for the next book. I am a writer and I take up my pen to write.

Hope Mood Faith Work
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I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.

Head Live Never Stories
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Sometimes you have a poem that you really want to write and it never happens.

Happens Never Poem Really
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.

Addictive Because Begin Happens
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I tended to write poems about both social and spiritual problems, and some problems one doesn't really want to solve, and so the problems themselves are solved. You certainly don't want to solve problems in poems that haven't been solved in the world.

Certainly Poems Problems Really
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I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers.

Editors Formed Ideals Never
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When I write, when I'm going hot, I don't want to write more than four hours in a row. After that, you're pushing it.

After Going Hot Hours
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I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.

Decision Find Made More
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I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze.

Feel Good Sneeze Spiteful
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I'm not afraid to write my feelings in songs.
Afraid Feelings Songs Write
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Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're heartbroken, but tomorrow you'll be in love again.

Again Because Capture Down
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We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.

About Books Chapter Country
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I must never write when I do not want to write.

Must Never Want Write
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The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
Important Important Thing Little Most
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I wish one time in my life I could do what other writers do... get me a villa in Spain and go there to write a book.

Book Could Get Go
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At a certain moment, I decided to write a story. I had no more small children to tell them stories.

Certain Children Decided Had
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There are skills you pick up on in a clinical environment in terms of how to ask questions, what to look for, how to listen that serve one well when trying to write.

Ask Clinical Environment How
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If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
Read Time Tools Write
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I quit my job just to quit. I didn't quit my job to write fiction. I just didn't want to work anymore.

Anymore Fiction Job Just
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I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.

Church Event Moon Photograph
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I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Decided Deliver Find Inspiration
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Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'

Accounts Afraid Allowed Asked
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I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?

Advertising Am Bear Because
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I wasn't Lennon, or I wasn't McCartney. I was me. And the only reason I started to write songs was because I thought, 'Well, if they can write them, I can write them.'

Because I Can Lennon McCartney
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That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal.

Abnormal Beautiful Beautiful Girls Girl
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I just try to write songs that people are going to have a dialogue about.

About Dialogue Going Just
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There's nothing worse than sitting down to write a novel and saying, 'Well, okay, I'm going to do something of high artistic worth.'

Artistic Down Going High
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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

Book Greatest Half Library
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Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things.

Different Different Things Holding Lot
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I thought, If people are going to write about what I'm wearing, then I would wear young British designers who need the publicity.

About British Designers Going
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I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.

Act Everything Just Paint
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