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All I try to do is write music that feels meaningful to me, that has commitment and passion behind it. — Bruce Springsteen
I write music with an exclamation point! — Richard Wagner
You write in order to change the world, knowing perfectly well that you probably can't, but also knowing that literature is indispensable to the world...… — James A. Baldwin
Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write. — Annie Proulx
It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want. — Jonathan Lethem
When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach. — Macklemore
The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message… — Norton Juster
The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I'll overreach myself once too often and try… — Orson Scott Card
History is life; he who has not lived, or has lived only enough to write a doctoral dissertation, is too inexperienced with life to write… — Louis Moreau Gottschalk
There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write. — Henry R. Luce
I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want. — John Lee Hooker
One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write… — John Thorn
People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball. — Sandy Koufax
I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that -… — Gary Numan
My point is that this Potter business has legs. It will run and run, and we must be utterly mad, as a country, to leave… — Boris Johnson
He had senile dementia and liked to go outside naked, but he could still do two things perfectly: win at checkers and write out prescriptions. — Barbara Kingsolver
If you want to write you should learn the alphabet. You write and write and in the end you hava a beautiful, perfect alphabet. But… — Andre Kertesz
I wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word. — Walker Evans
Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and it… — Gloria Steinem
I hardly remember how I started to write poetry. It's hard to imagine what I thought poetry could do. — David Antin

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