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I was influenced by surrealist poetry and painting as were thousands of other people, and it seems to me to have become a part of the way I write, but it's not. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

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I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day. ↗

— Jerzy Kosinski

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In the book, I write about children in first grade who were taught to read by reading want ads. They learned to write by writing job applications. Imagine what would happen if anyone tried to do that to children in a predominantly white suburban school. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

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I don't think about the styles. I write whatever comes out and I use whatever kind of instrumentation works for those songs. ↗

— Lenny Kravitz

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I look at you and I write down what I hear. ↗

— Virgil Thomson

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The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage. ↗

— Pete Townshend

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I sit in places like Costa Coffee in Banstead and write rubbish. I need a deadline. I think about the 44 tour dates and keep imagining standing in front of all these people. Then every day I write 15 jokes minimum. ↗

— Tim Vine

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Most songs have meager beginnings. You wake up in the morning, you throw on your suspenders, and you subvocalize and just think. They seem to form like calcium. I can't think of a story right off the bat that was that interesting. I write things on the back of my hand, usually, and sing into a tape recorder. ↗

— Tom Waits

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Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did. ↗

— Mort Walker

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When I write, I put one foot in front of the other. It's an act of faith. I just follow my heart. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

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