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To win the trophy of enchanting grace: Ranks of Carnations, to all ladies dear, Of whose sweet taste I write approval here, For these pre-eminent… — Ruth Pitter
I mean there are tons of reasons. Well first of all. I write my own record. I don't take other people's materials. And I have… — Willa Ford
I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so… — Otis Blackwell
Every time I write something down I check it to see if it has that telltale glow, the glow that tells me there's something there.… — Jim Woodring
There're no novels that I like to read so I write my own novels, and then I read them again, and it's the best thing. — Willow Smith
I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes. — Otis Rush
Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run… — Jamie Zawinski
I don't write for any group. I write to bring about a change in consciousness. — Jeanette Winterson
My kids are more precious to me than anything. I'm with them all day, and I write all night. — Danielle Steel
Unfortunately, most of the songs that I write I don't write them with guitar in mind. I just write it as a song and that… — Roy Wood
I write screenplays that don't get made and pilots that don't get picked up, and I re-write other people's movies, and those are all different… — Bruce Vilanch
It's a huge Carthusian monastery, stuck down between rocks and sea, where you may imagine me, without white gloves or hair curling, as pale as… — Frederic Chopin
It's part of what I do at my piano - the hymns. And then I write. — Jessi Colter
When I write stories I am like someone who is in her own country, walking along streets that she has known since she was a… — Natalia Ginzburg
I just initiated the project where I write music for somebody else to write the lyrics and also for the orchestra to perform. I've just… — Nobuo Uematsu
My music is so often like a lullaby I write to myself to make sense of things I can't tie together, or things I've lost,… — Stephan Jenkins
Sometimes I think what I write is funny in its quiet way. — Doris Lessing
At best, the relationship between drama critic and playwright is a pretty twiggy affair. When I'm asked whom I write for, after the obligatory, I… — Lanford Wilson
My writing isn't actually guided by issues. I know it seems that way, but I don't sit down and think, Oh, there's this issue I'm… — Paula Vogel
I don't have an idea for a play until after I've finished writing it. I write first, and come up with what it's about later.… — Wallace Shawn

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