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Songwriting's a weird game.

Game Songwriting Weird Music
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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.

Become Fascinates Fell Game
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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.

Life Filling Invent Write
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Writing music is not so much inspiration as hard work.

Writing music Inspiration Hard work
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When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.

Person First Novel Must
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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.

Always Aware Dre Got
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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.

Back Because Break Go
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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.

Between Come Did Either
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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.

Been Boy First I Think
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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.

Been Close Each Ever
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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.

Age Behind Best Better
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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.

About Different Many Much
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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.

Comic ComicStrips Drawing Funny
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I should be concentrating on writing pages

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

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

About America Better Get
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When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.

Around Get He Lie
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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.

Ability Did Hollywood Interest
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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.

Best Category Earned Emmy
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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.

Best Come General Give
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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.

Around Began College Entire
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I love comedy and I would write things to myself as an exercise in writing. I didn't do well for years, and I quit. I started to break down why I was afraid and started to look at people I admired, like Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, Freddie Prinze, George Carlin and all.

Love comedy Exercise Writing Years
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What writing does is to reveal.
Does Reveal Writing
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.

Emerged Eventually Kept Me
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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.

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

Anything Liked Only Place
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In 25 years of writing novels, I've never had anything that felt like writer's block.
Anything Block Felt Had
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My goal is to think of nothing when I'm writing a song because too many influences could sabotage a potentially amazing song.

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

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

Afterwards Ashamed Hands Necessarily
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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.

Environment Even Fantastic Feeling
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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

Because Discover Famous Fifteen
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The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon

Biggest BiggestObstacle Changing Necessity
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Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small shit.

Novel Great distance
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The only thing worth writing about is people. People. Human beings. Men and women whose individuality must be created, line by line, insight by insight.

Worth writing People Human beings Men
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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.

Art Because Culture Education
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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.

Always Apt Beautiful Better
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The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.
Ahead Comedy Get Going
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The power of fictitious writing, for good as well as for evil, is a thing which ought most seriously to be reflected upon.

The power Fictitious writing Seriously
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The thing about good writing is it has a music to it.
About Good Good Writing Music
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Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.

Conversation Different I Think May
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I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use.

Always Call Certain Dangerous
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If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

About Advice Give Had
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Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.

Any Costs Dramatic Failure
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They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.

About Advice Fancy Give
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For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.
Book Discovering Me More
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I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.

Began Career Isolated Place
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Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.

About Career Doing Going
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Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

Difference Hours Fiction Leaves
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I'm always in that mode - whenever I have a little free time, I'm always recording songs, writing, whatever I gotta do. It's like my job is my vacation.

Always Free Free Time Gotta
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