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I can't write from the subconscious actually, because a lot of the time when I co-write with other people, I'm writing for them as opposed… — Gary Louris
Starting is hard so I really need to give myself permission to do a bad job. I always give myself leave to write total nonsense… — Ann Brashares
Enthusiasm is big. When I write a book, it's a three-year commitment. Toward the end, I'm writing seven days a week, and it's exhausting but… — Nathaniel Philbrick
I want to write songs with complete sentences. I almos have this obsession with short-changing words. I would never be so pretentious to say that… — Ben Gibbard
As a songwriter, you're allowed to write anything, and as a person, I am all colors in the rainbow. I've been through everything, you know,… — Dolly Parton
I typically will work on a lyric in a three-ring binder. On the right side, I'll write the lyric, and on the left side, I… — James Taylor
['Fire and Rain'] is sort of almost uncomfortably close. Almost confessional. The reason I could write a song like that at that point, and probably… — James Taylor
I guess when we're happy, it's easier to go with the flow, and when that happiness or joy is interrupted, that's when we get contemplative… — Jeremy Fisher
We definitely set out to make a great 'radio' record. We set out to write great hooky choruses-but with verses that said something. — LeAnn Rimes
I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images. — Ingmar Bergman
I do believe we should push each other to write better songs and make better music. We do ourselves a disservice if we sit back… — Bonnie Baker
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
I write some crappy songs. ... but every once in a while I get just the right words put together for the right moment, and… — Bonnie Baker
When I write, I never know the endings. What I think works in [my] stories is the fact that when I write, I really want… — Etgar Keret
What I have in mind when I start to write could fit inside an acorn-an acorn, moreover, that rarely if ever grows into an oak.… — Philip Roth
People think once you get famous and rich you move out of the public sphere and you have nothing left to write about. I've heard… — Paul McCartney
Don't be afraid to write bad songs and then start over and re-evaluate. Songs are like plants, in that you grow them. Some grow really… — Corey Harris
My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately — George Bernard Shaw
People say you make your best work when in despair, but I think happiness is a good place to write from — Paul Weller
If after two weeks you still can't write your middle-eight, the best course of action is to see a psychiatrist — Ray Davies

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