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I get a lot of people complaining about my ambiguity, often in cases which there is nothing ambigous at all. As far as I can… — Gene Wolfe
I like myself better when I'm writing regularly. ... I was influenced a lot by those around me-there was a lot of singing that went… — Willie Nelson
It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many… — Ernest Hemingway
Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end… — Ernest Hemingway
Make the verses flow together. If a following verse has nothing to do with the previous, you may lose our listener/reader. You want a smooth… — Margaret Atwood
Read the classics one hour every day, drunk or sober. Reading the classics gives one a feeling of confidence. It familiarizes one with the vagaries… — Richard Haynes
What's interesting about songs where the writer is genuinely in love with words is that it's easy to read the lyrics like a poem. — Ann Reed
Read something that YOU want to read, not something that you feel compelled to read. — Sir David Baird, 1st Baronet
Anything that happens after I write a song...that's fine with me. It's up to the listener to read into it what they need from it.… — Guy Clark
My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately — George Bernard Shaw
You know, I've always been really interested in this stuff, and I'm going to read this. — William J. Clinton
I envy them, those monks of old; Their books they read, and their beads they told. — George Payne Rainsford James
Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read. — Charles Churchill
A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review. — Robert Breault
In my mind, there is no question that they're out there. My Career is well established. My texts books are required reading in all the… — Michio Kaku
Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious! — Friedrich Nietzsche
For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It is the only… — Walter Lippmann
The power of a text is different when it is read from when it is copied out. Only the copied text thus commands the soul… — Walter Benjamin
I only read the Holy Koran, the Bible and the sports pages — Muhammad Ali
All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do… — Oscar Wilde

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