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The Booker thing was a catalyst for me in a bizarre way. It’s perceived as an accolade to be published as a ‘literary’ writer, but, actually, it’s pompous and it’s fake. Literary fiction is often nothing more than a genre in itself. I’d always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s, as substitutes for experience. ↗

— Neil Cross

#literary-fiction #literature #writers #writing #experience

But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#between #books #find #go #i

I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#i #i always #know #lifetime #musician

I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I'm interested in trying to define what that country is. I got the chutzpa or whatever you want to say to believe that if I write a really good about it, it's going to make a difference. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#america #believe #country #define #difference

The writer is the engineer of the human soul. ↗

— Joseph Stalin

#human #human soul #soul #writer

Songwriting is an art unto itself, not to be confused with performing. ↗

— Jo Stafford

#confused #itself #performing #songwriting #unto

We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves. ↗

— Layne Staley

#because #know #ourselves #write

Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing. ↗

— Layne Staley

#drawing #led #me #music #photography

Our perception of songs that we've written... the meaning changes from day to day... to whatever stage we're at in our life and careers. ↗

— Layne Staley

#changes #day #day to day #life #meaning

I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place. ↗

— Richard Stallman

#back #building #career #code #could