Quotes 101 till 120 of 427.
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For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.
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For a person as obsessed with music as I am, I always hear a song in the back of my head, all the time, and that usually is my own tune. I've done that all my life.
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For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
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For a writer, obsession is a good substitute for self-discipline.
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For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.
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For most women, Greenham was a place of principle, growth and song. Often joyful, sometimes terrifying, and almost always cold. As it got harder, with constant evictions and mounting violence from a frustrated and humiliated police force, the women got more determined. It was a community with a shared purpose - to live in peace.
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For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
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From time to time, just about every 'Vanity Fair' writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book to Hollywood.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my whole life. I think it's a journey worth taking, really finding out who you are and what you do well.
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Have a picture in mind of the kind of career you want, the kind of writer you want to be. This will help you make tough decisions when you reach crossroads - choosing an agent, deciding to accept deals.
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Have little care that Life is brief, And less that Art is long. Success is in the silences Though Fame is in the song.
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Having children changes you forever, as a writer and as a human being. I hope it's for the better on both counts, but I guess we'll see.
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Having read my share of tell-alls over the year, including some that were passed off as autobiographies, I mostly feel sad - sometimes for the writer and sometimes for all the people in his way. I hope that the process of writing the tell-all gives some release and closure on what clearly was an unpleasant and unfulfilling life experience.
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He would catapult you forward, and that was his intention with the Jazz Messengers. He would take young people with a potential and help them develop a voice as a player and as a writer.
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Hey, hey, Woody Guthrie, I wrote you a song, 'bout a funny ol' world that's a-comin' along
Bob Dylan (1962) -
Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me.
I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me.
In the jingle-jangle morning, I'll come following you.Bringing It All Back Home (1965) -
Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.
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His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.
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History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird.
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