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All of my writing is God-given.
God-Given Writing
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Where the people are well educated, the art of piloting a state is best learned from the writings of Plato.

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I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.

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I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that's all you've got, it's just boring. Everything I write, whether it's happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it.

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I write my songs because I've lived them.

Because I Write Lived Songs
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I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture - I'd write books and essays to help us figure out who we wanted to be.

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I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

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Songwriting's a weird game.

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Songwriting's a weird game. I never intended to become one - I fell into this by mistake, and I can't get out of it. It fascinates me. I like to point out the rawer points of life.

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Writing is a solitary endeavor, but not a lonely one. When you write, your world is populated by the characters you invent, and you feel those people filling your life.

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Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.

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When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.

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Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.

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If you want to write about people, you can make it up. But if you spend time talking to someone and examining what it is you want to write about, you discover a level of detail that you wouldn't have noticed otherwise.

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I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.

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From the moment I started writing raps, I was always aware of the pressure. I always wanted to live up to how huge Snoop got, how huge Dre got, how huge Pac got. I was always aware.

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We're in the last days, man - I truly, in my heart, believe that. It's written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it's about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

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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.

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Generally, I like Indian music because the melodies are usually not too complex, which is how I like music, and that's the way I write music.

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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.

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We were definitely new to the whole music thing. The first album was a real collaborative effort between us, the writers, and the A&R people at Columbia Records. We really worked to find out what our sound was.

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You have to connect with a song, and when you write it, that connection is already there. It's your baby; your passion is in that song.

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There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, 'If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles

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It's hard for children's authors to be accepted when they try to write adult books. J.K. Rowling is the exception because people are so eager to read anything by her, but it took Judy Blume three or four tries before she had a success.

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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.

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I have a cheat-sheet for each one of my characters about their personality, the way they look, etc. So there is no possible way that I could have writer's block.

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I met Quincy Jones in Seattle. We were kids together... liked each other when we met and have been close ever since. He wasn't writing when we met - in fact, I more or less started him off to write; voicing, harmony, and stuff like that.

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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!

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I always had to wait until something hit me, and I could write it. But when I would cut an album, to me it represented the time that I spent since the last one. Just the way I was looking at the world.

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

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I don't think I'm that good a singer. I can't think of a song that I've written that I don't like the way somebody else sings it better.

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Human rights is something that wasn't hard to be inspired to write about because there have been so many violations of those rights.

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If it hadn't been for Johnny Cash, I'd probably have been a Nashville songwriter because that's what I had done for almost five years.

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I used to think that my songs were the best things that I would leave behind me. And I definitely think my kids are now. For starters, they're writing better songs than I was at their age.

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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.

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When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.
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If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles.

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People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a week.

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It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.

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So many people in their 20s and 30s, on Twitter, say 'Please write something for us,' so I have to listen to them, they're my audience.

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When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.

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I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.

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I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now.

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I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm too dumb to turn off my Twitter and everything so it's always on and it's a real distraction. It's a major distraction.

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I should be concentrating on writing pages

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

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

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Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.
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Writers will happen in the best of families

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