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With the Stray Cats at least, we really took the music somewhere else. First, we wrote our own songs. That's a real weak point in… — Brian Setzer
It's certainly true that when I was young, writing seemed to me so important that I would have sacrificed almost anything to it ... Because… — Alice Munro
The most purely autobiographical Âfiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more autoÂbiographical story than 'The MetaÂmorphosis'. — Jonathan Franzen
Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away from… — Bernard Cornwell
I resisted using EHRs while an internist in Boston, as I wrote in my blog, â€˜Why Be a Meaningful User.â€™ Over time, however, I found… — David Blumenthal
Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first. — Rob Zombie
It took me a long time to figure out what Holly Golightly was all about. One night after midnight I was still trying. I don't… — Henry Mancini
The writing of the Beatles, or John and Paul's contribution to the Beatles in the late sixties - had a kind of depth to it,… — John Lennon
The author O. Henry taught me about the value of the unexpected. He once wrote about the noise of flowers and the smell of birdsâ€”the… — Chuck Jones
The philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche once wrote that when you look into the darkness of the abyss the abyss looks into you. Probably no other line… — Michael Connelly
I wrote my first real murder story as a journalist for the Daytona Beach News Journal in 1980. It was about a body found in… — Michael Connelly
David Whitmer wrote: ' Joseph Smith would put the seer stone into a hat, and put his face in the hat, drawing it closely around… — Russell M. Nelson
The spirit must be freed from tethers so strong and feelings never put to rest, so that the lift of life may give buoyancy to… — Thomas S. Monson
Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote. — Warren Buffett
If you wrote about sex the way Jim [Salter] writes about sex in nonfiction, you would be a sociopath. — Lorin Stein
The poetâ€™s life is just so much crenellated waste, nights and days whipping swiftly or laboriously past the cinematic window. Weâ€™re hunched and weaving over… — Eileen Myles
The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God; that the universe is only… — John Lothrop Motley
I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening. — Don Van Vliet
I tell my students that when you write, you should pretend youâ€™re writing the best letter you ever wrote to the smartest friend you have.… — Jeffrey Eugenides
I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses.Â I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream, resign myself to… — Anais Nin

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