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Learning. It's really the primary reason behind everything I do. Programming, entrepreneuring, writing.
I write because I want more than one life; I insist on a wider selection. It's greed, plain and simple.
Asleep or awake, writing or reading, whatever you do, you must never be without the remembrance of God.
[On book promotion:] The reward for writing well appears to be not to be able to do it for a long time.
I have written much less than most people who write; I have drunk much more than most people who drink.
In terms of what is expressed, antinatalism is a strong presence, not always explicit, in what I write.
I'm unable to really write the kind of song that doesn't have a visual element, which most songs don't.
Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.
I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance.
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
I started writing, or rather, thinking, stories as a child, and at that time the reason was very clear.
I think fiction writers write what they do because no one else has written it and they want to read it.
I don't know anyone who sits down to write a song hit except Irving Berlin. He can't help writing hits.
My biggest dream from the beginning - besides Evanescence - is scoring film and writing music for film.
I want to write a song for someone who has just fallen in love or someone single and living their live.
I still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering.
I don't like to write any music to a script. Experience has taught me that's generally a waste of time.
College is great. It's the only time in life where you can write a check for 39 cents... and bounce it.
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's books and write your own.
Note, the reply will not be "I write," an act that I have, after all, been performing since I was nine.
It is more pleasant and useful to go through the 'experience of the revolution' than to write about it.
I've learned through writing that if something made me feel deeply or anything at all, it was worth it.
I'm going to continue writing. I'll always be a storyteller. But I'm also taking time to enjoy my life.
I try to write in a way where the lyrics have many meanings and you won't really know what's behind it.
My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.
Fine writing, according to Mr. Addison, consists of sentiments which are natural without being obvious.
I find that when I am actually writing, I enter a zone of concentration too small to admit my troubles.
If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.
I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.
It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.'
I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notices.
I believe that if we are going to write about life and death, we should not do it from the cheap seats.
I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies
It's a principle of mine to come into the story as late as possible, and to tell it as fast as you can.
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.
I think the culture can absorb so many people writing poetry and trying to earn their living in poetry.
I am glad I worked on a newspaper because it made me know I had to write whether I felt like it or not.
Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer.
We had so much fun together as friends that I suggested we [with Kate DiCamillo] write a book together.
I'm writing my biography. It's my business. This is what happened in my life, and I'm writing about it.
In our age, if a boy or girl is untalented, the odds are in favor of their thinking they want to write.
The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves.
The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated.
Write about what really interests you, whether it is real things or imaginary things, and nothing else.
I do a lot of co-writing with my producer RedOne, and then a lot on my own. I just like to be creative.
When I sit down to write a song, I really want the message of healing to thrive and transcend all ages.
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared.