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I liked the way they treated the first, second, and third place finishers equally. It was an amazing year. I only entered two song contests this year; I won one and placed second in the other. And I entered each of them a day or two before the deadline.
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I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.
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I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.
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I must write it all out, at any cost. Writing is thinking. It is more than living, for it is being conscious of living.
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I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.
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I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.
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I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me.
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I really wish I knew what I was doing because I'd be writing hit songs every minute.
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I recorded the song live in front of an orchestra, and yes, I was very moved, I was in tears.
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I remember hearing the song when I was 12 or 14 in - it must have been in Chicago, 'cause we didn't have a radio on the farm, and it was during the second World War. I had three brothers in that war who went overseas.
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I shouldn't have acted. I didn't exhibit any ability. I was one of the kids in the school play who was just mouthing words, and they weren't the actual words of the song. I was pretty lame!
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I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.
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I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
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I suppose when you do it correctly, a good introduction and a good outro makes the song feel like it's coming out of something and then evolving into something.
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I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18.
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I tend to be more of a novel writer. In fact, some of my novels started out as short stories, and I just got carried away! I think some of my best writing is in the short story form, but novels come more naturally to me.
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I tend to overthink things. I'm not the guy who screams 'This is a world smash!' when I finish a song.
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I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.
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I think if any song can touch the heart, then one should value it.
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I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.
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