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I'd love to be an artist always, but if no one wants me, I'd love to write songs for other people, be a manager, nurture new talent.

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I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

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The horrible truth is that I am lazy and I am going to write and do bits that just hand themselves to me.

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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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Tags : Alan Cohen Quotes , Song Quotes , Writing Quotes

I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do. I end up writing not from my own will, but from theirs-they come alive as I write and make me do things that I couldn't have planned.

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For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Writing Quotes , Kind Quotes

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.

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Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

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A pioneer in this genre [ writing about the refugee crisis] : the book A Seventh Man, by the great John Berger, decades ago evoked the lives of migrant workers in Europe.

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Tags : Adam Hochschild Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing Quotes

They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Writing Quotes , Brass Bands Quotes

Hold those things that tell your history and protect them. During slavery, who was able to read or write or keep anything? The ability to have somebody to tell your story to is so important. It says: 'I was here. I may be sold tomorrow. But you know I was here.'

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Only in a novel are all things given full play.

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When a woman writes you a poem, she spends time with the gods on your behalf.

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Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose.

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But I love to entertain. My vocation is to accrue all these experiences, to write about them, to get them out of my system, to not get sick, and then to share them publicly.

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Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.

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As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then fill in the episodes and amplify in detail.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Writing Quotes , Firsts Quotes

I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and sit on your couch.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Writing Quotes , Thinking Quotes

I started out being a stand up and writing my own material. That took me to Talk Soup, where I was writing and performing for TV. So everything is all the same job in my eyes, and I don't want to ever give up any part of it. I will say that stand-up is my first love; it's how I got started and is in my bones.

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A lot of big labels will just sign bands like a write off.

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