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Often something comes in from which you can see that the person is good, the book may not be perfect as it is, and the… — James Laughlin
If I were assigned poems I suppose I'd write more of them but it is entirely voluntary and for the most part ignored in the… — Thomas Lynch
If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that… — Laurence Housman
At the top of the cycle you write policies for everybody, no matter how bad, and at the bottom you cancel everybody, no matter how… — Robert Hunter
For me, songwriting is something I have to do ritually. I don't just wait for inspiration; I try to write a little bit every day. — Sean Lennon
Write in a disciplined manner, but write in a way that is natural to the individual's thought processes. — Donald McKay
There's a whole bunch of unfinished stuff. Then I've got books of lyrics. I find it frustrating to finish a song and not be able… — Christine McVie
When I need the idea, I can find it immediately. I have a horror of rewriting or deleting; the parts of my composition are carried… — Ruggero Leoncavallo
I didn't want to play these people any more songs and have them say that they weren't good enough. So my response was to just… — Aimee Mann
I write what's given me to write. — Philip Levine
No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you. — Philip Levine
Understood what the struggle was about. My mother. Couldn't read or write, but she had more sense than many a graduate from Harvard. — Al Lewis
If you want a transcript of tonight's program, get a pen and write down everything I said. — Kevin Nealon
I can write music but I'm not much for words. — Jim Diamond
If you speak or write truth about powerful men, they become your enemies. — Matthew Paris
I talk to Simon, I write to him. I never used to write a diary. But now I'm writing a diary to him. I think… — Petra Nemcova
I didn't have to say it. I just had to write it. It was painful enough. — Robert B Parker
When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do. — Howard Nemerov
Don't let your mouth write a check that your tail can't cash. — Bo Diddley
I write a lot of music in my time off and I compose most of the songs on guitar. I've actually gone into the studio… — Scott Patterson

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