Quotes with song-writing

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  • Louis Armstrong All music is folk music, I ain't never heard no horse sing a song.
    Louis Armstrong
    American trumpeter, composer and singer (1901 - 1971)
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  • Audre Lorde All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is like breathing.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Carrie Vaughn All writing and publishing is very difficult, regardless of genre. There are going to be obstacles no matter what.
    Carrie Vaughn
    American writer (1973 - )
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  • Colm Toibin All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.
    Colm Toibin
    Irish novelist and writer (1955 - )
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  • Brian K. Vaughan All writing is the same: It's just making up lies until it starts to sound like the truth. That's what I do.
    Brian K. Vaughan
    American comic book and television writer (1976 - )
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  • Cyril Connolly Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Ben Shapiro America's liberal arts universities have long been safe zones for leftist thinking, protected ivory towers for the pseudo-elite who earn their livings writing papers nobody reads about gender roles in the poetry of Maya Angelou.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • T. S. Eliot An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Bob Schieffer And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to journalism. I didn't graduate with honors, but I did graduate on time and with some doing.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Beth Henley And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won't have to bother doing it themselves.
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
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  • Bret Harte And I hear from the outgoing ship in the bay The song of the sailors in glee: So I think of the luminous footprints that bore The comfort o'er dark Galilee, And wait for the signal to go to the shore, To the ship that is waiting for me.
    Bret Harte
    American short story writer and poet (1836 - 1902)
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  • Augusten Burroughs And I tend to listen to NPR when I'm not writing.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Bernard Cornwell And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee.
    Bernard Cornwell
    British author of historical novels (1944 - )
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  • Adam Clymer Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
    Adam Clymer
    American journalist (1937 - 2018)
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  • Brad Falchuk Any great character is the combination of a brilliant actor and the right writing.
    Brad Falchuk
    American television writer, director, and producer (1971 - )
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  • Bob Woodward Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Boris Pasternak As far as modern writing is concerned, it is rarely rewarding to translate it, although it might be easy. Translation is very much like copying paintings.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Catharine Esther Beecher As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right.
    Catharine Esther Beecher
    American educator
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  • Donna Tartt As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that.
    Donna Tartt
    American author (1963 - )
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