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My ideal is a book that is perfect on every page, that gives you tremendous aesthetic joy on every page. I suppose I am trying… — James Salter
As a financial historian, I was quite isolated in Oxford - British historians are supposed to write about kings - so the quality of intellectual… — Niall Ferguson
I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely. — Zadie Smith
Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad.… — Imogen Heap
My grand plan is that I can master having a better life by making sure I have a regular flow of songs. Then I can… — Imogen Heap
When I was 12, I went to boarding school, where I discovered the computer, which meant I no longer had to write something down and… — Imogen Heap
I honestly think I could sit down and write a show tonight that the critics would love, and I know it would be canceled within… — Sherwood Schwartz
I like to write poetry. — Rebecca Ferguson
From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the… — K'naan
I write longhand on legal pads, about half at home and half in cafes. I drink a lot of water and eat a lot of… — Daniel Handler
I write every day weekdays for about 5 hours, mostly longhand on legal pads. It has gotten neither harder nor easier, sadly or happily. — Daniel Handler
The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops. That includes the Irving Berlins and… — Ahmet Ertegun
Paris is an ideal place to become informed, while Venice is a place to think and write. — Pontus Hulten
The more we write the less we die. — Brian Kessler
Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in… — Orson Scott Card
I've been aware of death since I was a little girl. My only regret willl be not being able to write about it. — Vanna Bonta
A woman must have money and room of her own if she is to write fiction — Virginia Woolf
How do you write women so well? I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability. — John Updike
Writers don't write, they read and transcribe. — William S Burroughs
Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counseling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is… — James Thurber

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