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I've been a list maker for years, even before I was a musician. I was always writing things down and kept long lists of things that would make good album titles and things like that. I'm constantly thinking in terms of songwriting.
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I've been writing songs all along, and since moving to Nashville in the late-'80s, I'd begun writing something like 15-20 songs a year, instead of the typical three or four in previous years.
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I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.
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I've included these little jokes and mysteries in my writing for the amusement of readers.
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I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
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If candidates spend money on ads and other political speech and their opponents are rewarded with government handouts to attack them, that chills speech and is unconstitutional. Non-participating candidates certainly don't volunteer to allow their opponents to receive taxpayer subsidies to bash them.
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If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
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If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.
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If I know I will be working with someone and they are not keen with writing with a girl, I like to be non-threatening and cool so they will trust me. It's a thought process of who work and how I want to present myself.
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If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
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If the songs I'm writing can offer anything to somebody, I'd like to give myself the opportunity to deliver that.
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If the stuff you're writing is not for yourself, it won't work.
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If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist it's another nonconformist who does not conform to the prevailing standards of non-conformity.
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If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.
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If you are writing about baloney, don't try and make it Cornish hen, because that's the worst kind of baloney there is. Just make it darn good baloney.
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If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
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If you don't hit a newspaper reader between the eyes with your first sentence, there is no need of writing a second one.
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If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.
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If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
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