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I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head. ↗

— Chris Van Allsburg

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I write emotional music. ↗

— Les Baxter

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While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story. ↗

— Ann Beattie

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So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life. ↗

— Jackson Browne

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I never listen to music when I write. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

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No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly. ↗

— Octavia Butler

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I write my own quotes. Except this one. I obviously stole this from somebody really clever. ↗

— Brian Celio

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I sing songs that I have lived or I write them because I have lived them. I think the believability factor is key. ↗

— Kelly Clarkson

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The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist. ↗

— Harlan Coben

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I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

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