#i write

I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do. ↗

— Theodore Sturgeon

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I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane. ↗

— Taylor Swift

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Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less. ↗

— Taylor Swift

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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work. ↗

— Gay Talese

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I know there are writers who feel unhappy with domesticity and who even manufacture domestic turmoil in order to have something to write about. With me, though, the happier I feel, the better I write. ↗

— Paul Theroux

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When I write about my childhood I think, oh my God, how did I ever get from there to here? Not that any great thing has happened to me. But I felt so tiny, so lost. ↗

— Paul Theroux

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Sometimes I write them down in musical notation as a trigger to remind me about certain directions to go. Or I can be specific about a sound I'm looking for. ↗

— Harold Budd

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Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero. ↗

— Ani DiFranco

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My favorite music to sing would be my own songs, my original songs, just because I know them, you know I write the tunes, so my favorite songs are the newest ones that I write. That's what I like to sing the most, because it means something, it's real, it comes from me. ↗

— Paul McDonald

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I write my songs because I've lived them. ↗

— Katy Perry

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