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You can't write a song out of thin air you have to feel and know what you are writing about. — Irving Berlin
I've found in composing that being simple and profoundâ€”having in-depthness in your musicâ€”is the most difficult thing to do. Anybody can write a whole lot… — Horace Silver
Top people have very clear goals. They know who they are and they know what they want. They write it down and they make plans… — Brian Tracy
The best journalism is sometimes about footnotesâ€”when we write small to say something big. — Anthony Shadid
I have a horror of being self-indulgent and wasting time, and there is that risk in doing this kind of work. Are you totally deluded… — Ben Fountain
When I write I can shake off all my cares. My sorrow disappears, my spirits are revived. — Anne Frank
A lot of people write books not at the end of their career. Why you gotta wait until then? When you're momentum's going, that's when… — David Ortiz
I am free to write the worst junk in the world. — Natalie Goldberg
Finally, one just has to shut up, sit down, and write. — Natalie Goldberg
When we write we begin to taste the texture of our own mind — Natalie Goldberg
And [now] I think Iâ€™ll probably write a lot about birds. My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing… — Julia Cameron
I want to direct, produce, and write, learning as I go. — Emmanuel Lewis
I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to get it across.… — Chris LeDoux
I write a thousand words a day. — Lisa See
By ignoring a lot of American culture you can write more interesting stories. Unfortunately, if you were writing about America as it is, you'd be… — Richard Russo
You just kind of have faith. If that sounds kind of mystical, it's because I really don't know how it works, but I trust that… — Richard Russo
I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of my manuscripts back to myself… — Erik Larson
It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life… — Rita Dove
I had to live this long, have the experiences I've had, to create what I do. I knew I wanted to write for years, but… — Terry Goodkind
I was dressed up as a witch for Halloween, and wanted to write a story about my black cat before I went out trick-or-treating. I… — Robin Hobb

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