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So, for instance, if you came to me, I'd ask,'Do you want to write? Do you want to improvise? Why do you want to play this instrument? What do you want to do?' ↗

— Ornette Coleman

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Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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I am still shocking people today, and I don't know why. Is it because I'm a woman talking about sex and men? One magazine said that no one writes sex in the back of a Bentley better than Jackie Collins. ↗

— Jackie Collins

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I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing. ↗

— Jackie Collins

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Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about. ↗

— Jackie Collins

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I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song. I also tend to get up and write prose in the morning from which will come songs. ↗

— Judy Collins

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If I give myself a chore, for instance, when I was writing the songs for Shameless, I said to myself, Now, every day for 90 days you have to write a song; good, bad or indifferent. So that was really helpful. ↗

— Judy Collins

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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I think the only boundaries are individual and personal. A writer should be free to write about anything he or she wants to, including the twin towers. I have made small references to 9/11 in my past two books. ↗

— Michael Connelly

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