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As a total activity - I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature.

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Writing is one of the most solitary activities in the world.

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If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper.

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Writing lyrics with your wife does lead to talking about yourselves a lot. But this is not an autobiographical account of my personal marriage. It's almost about the marriage of the band.

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Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss.

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I tend to write songs fast, so the process usually only lasts around 30 minutes. In the studio is where I really can artistically breathe, and let my ideas flow.

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I've always found it pretty difficult to write a happy song.

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The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

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We who preach and write, do so in a manner different from which the Scriptures have been written. We write while we make progress.We learn something new every day. We speak as we still knock for understanding...If anyone criticizes me when I have said what is right, he does me an injustice. But I would be more angry with the one who praises me and takes what I have written for Gospel truth than I would be with the one who criticizes me unfairly.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Wisdom Quotes , Writing Quotes

Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.

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Tags : Alan Dean Foster Quotes , Travel Quotes , Writing Quotes

There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. ... The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say.

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I really didn't think about song writing.

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And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.

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I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.

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I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

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I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies.

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Is it our job to judge? The gendarme, policemen and bureaucrats have been especially prepared by fate for that job. Our job is towrite, and only to write.

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It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything.

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Write only of what is important and eternal.

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Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech.

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