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Try to write poems at least one person in the room will hate. — Marvin Bell
I write because to write a new sentence, let alone a new poem, is to cross the threshold into both a larger existence and a… — Jane Hirshfield
When I write, I don't know what is going to emerge. I begin in a condition of complete unknowing, an utter nakedness of concept or… — Jane Hirshfield
I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best. — Jim Harrison
I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying… — Jim Harrison
Don't ask me to write a check for you when you think your job is at risk and then don't pay any attention to me… — Christopher Dodd
Those who count on quote 'Hollywood' for support need to understand that this industry is watching very carefully who's going to stand up for them… — Christopher Dodd
I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people bother… — Lynda Barry
I don't care who writes a nation's laws-or crafts its advanced treaties-if I can write its economics textbooks — Paul Samuelson
I'm a full-time believer in writing habits...You may be able to do without them if you have genius but most of us only have talent… — Flannery O'Connor
I never had any other thought in my mind. I was gonna write songs, I was gonna be a star and a singer and I… — Kim Carnes
I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style — Clifford Geertz
I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done — Clifford Geertz
I don't see how you can write anything of value if you don't offend someone. — Marvin Harris
Id love to have another film to go on to. Im in the mood to work. But I have to be patient, you know, to… — Peter Weir
What if you began to expect the best from any situation? Isn't it possible that you could write new chapters in your life with happy… — Sarah Ban Breathnach
Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and codes, they must submerge,… — Helene Cixous
And what happened was, it's the same thing an older, more successful writer of ficition might say to a student: write about what you know.… — Larry Coryell
... I get more respect from rap artists than I do from my own industry. I don't always write the kind of music that country… — Toby Keith
The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness. — Madeleine L'Engle

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