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I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording will last longer than a performance. ↗

— Will Oldham

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Writing songs is a profession; so it's not an attempt to take things from my interactions with other people and for some reason give them to a total stranger to listen to. I find it offensive to hear other people do that. ↗

— Will Oldham

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As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. ↗

— George Orwell

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One gets the impression that this is how Ernest Hemingway would have written had he gone to Vassar. ↗

— Jack Paar

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It makes me feel wonderful that people still care for me... that I have so many fans among young people, who write to me and tell me I have been an inspiration. ↗

— Bettie Page

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I remember Tim telling me that he had an idea for a musical and he said to me that he was hoping that ABBA would be writing the music, which I thought was a pretty wild idea because they were obviously known very much as pop writers. ↗

— Elaine Paige

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I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again. ↗

— Abraham Pais

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If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works. ↗

— John Dos Passos

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I would rather write for the instruction, or even the amusement of the poor than for the amusement of the rich. ↗

— Frederick Marryat

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When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out of material. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

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