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Every word she writes is a lie, including and and the. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

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It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. ↗

— Paul McCartney

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Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.' ↗

— Paul McCartney

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But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing. ↗

— Paul McCartney

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So, we come out to Los Angeles. And we met with every network. We met with show runners, directors, writers, everything. And what we had an idea for, they didn't like. And what they had an idea for, we didn't like. So, we went home. ↗

— Reba McEntire

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I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories. ↗

— Bobby McFerrin

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I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other. ↗

— John McGahern

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I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatise that private world. ↗

— John McGahern

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I don't sit here and dream because I don't care about the future. I wouldn't take nothin' for my past and I've got enough behind me that I can write forever. ↗

— Brownie McGhee

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I only write about what I do, what happens to me. ↗

— Brownie McGhee

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