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Write Quotes by Nick Cave
- I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.
- I write hate lyrics really well. It's not every day you can use them, really.
- If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about.
- The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something…
- You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate.
- I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what…
- I became a script writer with absolutely no idea of how to write a script whatsoever. I still feel a bit of an outsider in…
- I consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and grim hours in…
- I get criticized for a lot of what I write about, but as far as I'm concerned I'm actually standing up and having a look…
- I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that I'd be transformed…
- I write a lot, and very often I write a couple of lines that are particularly revealing in some kind of way. And then as…
- The idea of songwriting is a transformative thing, and what I do with songwriting is take situations that are quite ordinary and transform them in…
- The more settled I've become, the more problematic my characters have become. There was a period when I wrote sensitive and gentle songs and these…
- I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.
- The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and…
- Early on I realized when you write a song about someone, it flatters them on some level, and gives you a lot of room to…
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- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works. — Paul Auster
- Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove… — Scott Adams
- I write from my soul. This is the reason that critics don't hurt me, because it is me. If it was not… — Paulo Coelho
- What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write...… — Paul Di Filippo