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People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.

Celebrate Celebrated Mistake More
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The biggest influence? I've had several at different times - but the biggest for me was Bob Dylan, who was a guy that came along when I was twelve or thirteen and just changed all the rules about what it meant to write songs.

About Along Biggest Biggest Influence
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The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.

Affect Difficulty Him Literature
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To try to write love is to confront the muck of language: that region of hysteria where language is both too much and too little, excessive and impoverished.

Both Confront Excessive Hysteria
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I feed on other people's creativity, photographers, artists of every kind. Sometimes a feeling that you get listening to a song can be so powerful. I've wanted to write whole scripts around what I felt just listening to a piece of music. I think music is important, and surrounding your visual field with stimulating things.

Around Artists Creativity Every
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I found it was really impossible for me to write songs when I couldn't sing.
Found Impossible Me Really
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When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into my writing life and that people would see me not as an author but as an actor starting to write.

Actor After Author Career
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I got a guitar when I was six and, instead of learning other people's songs, started to try to write my own, even at that young age.

Age Even Got Guitar
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Esoteric or inner knowledge is no different from other kinds of human knowledge and ability. It is a mystery for the average person only to the extent that writing is a mystery for those who have not yet learned to write.

Ability Average AveragePerson Different
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In order to be able to write a good joke, you have to find the truth.

Able Find Good Joke
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I was raised on government cheese. As an adult, in my first marriage, my husband and I worked real hard just to go bankrupt. I happened to write some jokes about it. I did real well for myself.

About Adult Bankrupt Cheese
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And, you know, I liked writing humor. Well, I should say, I wanted to write seriously, but it kept turning funny.

Funny Humor Kept Know
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I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.

First Go Here Lyric
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It's hard to be a celebrity nowadays. It's not about your track record anymore. If you have a great movie, you're good. If not, people are ready to write you off. I think the only ones who are really winning are people like Will Smith. People go, 'Oh, it's Will Smith. I've got to see him, whatever he's in.'

About Anymore Celebrity Go
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I knew that I had to write my memoirs.

Had Knew Memoirs Write
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you are every thing i want to write in a poem, like this when my heart will not hush a storm bounds in bloodlines with blue ink and in oxygen carrying natal scents of you

You are Every thing My heart Storm bounds
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It's a dangerous game to write a song for a person you don't know. It feels disingenuous.

Dangerous game Write A song A person
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We're not here to make the ignorant people happy. We're here to write our music for those people that are interested in good rock n' roll music.

Not here Ignorant people Happy Write
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To write something you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
Write Something Risk Fool
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To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.

To write Convert The real Into words
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Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.

Writing Thinking Clearly Hard
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The desire to write grows with writing.

Desire Write Grows
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To paint, to write, to engage in politics—these are not merely ‘sublimations’; here we have aims that are willed for their own sakes. To deny it is to falsify all human history.

Paint Write Falsify History
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It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write.

Is impossible Discourage Real writers
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The more restrictions you have, the easier anything is to write.

Restrictions Easier Write
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.

Thoughts Man Know Write
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I am never going to write for the sake of writing.

I Going Write Sake
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Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!

Write Advice Think Imagine
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To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world.

Write Symphony Construct World
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To write is your last resort when you've betrayed someone.

Write Resort Betrayed Someone
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If we cannot write with the beauty of Mozart, let us at least try to write with his purity.

Write Beauty Purity
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The best way in the world for breaking up a writer's block is to write a lot.

Way World Writer's block
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One has to be just a little crazy to write a great novel

Crazy Write Great novel
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The best way to write a song is to think of something else and then the song kind of creeps in.

Best way Write Song Think
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I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.

Want Write Book Head
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Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.

Write Shield Hiding Pain
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I believe that what we want to write wants to be written

Believe Want Write
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The trick to finding writing time, then, is to write from love and not with an eye to product.

Trick Write Time Love
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We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't.

Idea Need Mood Write
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And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.

You Live Nothing Write
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It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.

Perception Write View Someone
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If you want to write, just believe that you can, because it's about perseverance.

Write Perseverance Believe You can
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