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Writing Quotes by Patti Smith
- Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for the people. When…
- Often the simplest song is the hardest to write.
- I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.
- I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.
- It was no hardship to me to spend long hours reading and writing.
- More than anything, that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's taken me other…
- Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting…
- When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective…
- Writing is not some quiet, closet act.
- Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.
- Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.
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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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