#i write

I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite. ↗

— Carol Ann Duffy

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I remember listening to the radio as a kid and finding that the songs always made me feel more peaceful. Funny, but the more hurtin' the music was, the better it made me feel. I think of that now when I write my songs. I may not be feelin' the blues myself, but I'm writing them for other people who have a hard life. ↗

— Chris Isaak

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It just happens I write fast and always have done. ↗

— Boris Johnson

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Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength. ↗

— Mickey Kaus

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Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how it is. This is what we have done. This is what we have permitted. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

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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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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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