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Writing Quotes by Leonard Cohen
- We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very…
- Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
- I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.
- I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a…
- I'm writing all the time. And as the songs begin to coalesce, I'm not doing anything else but writing. I wish I were one of…
- I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.
- The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
- People used to say my music was too difficult or too obscure, and I never set out to be difficult or obscure. I just set…
- I have to finish it in order to know whether it deserves to survive.
- It's four in the morning, the end of december I'm writing you now just to see if you're better.
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- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
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- Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. — Isaac Asimov