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There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest. ↗

— Mark Strand

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As soon as I started writing Julia, by which I mean while writing its first sentence, I felt a sudden, reassuring charge of excitement. I knew it was going to work. ↗

— Peter Straub

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I instantly chucked my academic ambitions and began writing fiction full-time. ↗

— Peter Straub

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Only a generation of readers will span a generation of writers. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

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The biblical texts that we Christians have used for centuries to justify our hostility toward the Jews need to be banished forever from the sacred writings of the Christian church. ↗

— John Shelby Spong

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I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it. ↗

— Rick Springfield

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I like to write when I feel I'm the real me. ↗

— Rick Springfield

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Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs. ↗

— Rick Springfield

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I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography. ↗

— Rick Springfield

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I'd say that after my father passed my writing changed, it went deeper. Most would say 'matured' but I don't think I'd use that word in relation to my progress. I think 'change' is a little more accurate. ↗

— Rick Springfield

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