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What I would do is when I was younger I would draw in a sketch book something that happened in my life and then write a little something on the side about what happened or what the story. ↗

— Robert Redford

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I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels. ↗

— Lou Reed

#level #like #novels #opera #plays

There is both a skill factor and an effort factor in dream recall. People can develop dream recall skills, such as lying still in the morning and writing down whatever comes to mind. ↗

— Henry Reed

#comes #develop #down #dream #effort

People say that writers write for money. From my own experience that's not true. I write for me. I publish for money. ↗

— Greg Curtis

#writing-advice #experience

Why can I write 'South' with some assurance that you'll know I mean Richmond and don't mean Phoenix? What is it that the South's boundaries enclose? ↗

— John Shelton Reed

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The music that is played on the radio all the time or written about in magazines has nothing to do with musicianship. ↗

— Dweezil Zappa

#magazines #music #musicianship #nothing #played

You can never properly predict the future as it really turns out. So you are doing something a little different when you write science fiction. You are trying to take a different perspective on now. ↗

— Kim Stanley Robinson

#different perspective #doing #fiction #future #little

Even if I don't release it myself, somebody else might hear it and want to record it. When you write a song, it gives it that potential. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

#even #gives #hear #i #might

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

#i #i always #just #never #record

Originally I was not writing songs for myself. ↗

— Smokey Robinson

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