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When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

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When modern writers gave up telling stories, they gave up the greatest thing we had. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

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When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do. ↗

— Howard Nemerov

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But this is pretty new for me, both songwriting and singing. ↗

— Krist Novoselic

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Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

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Writers have told me more than once that I'm a better interview in defeat than in victory, which is a compliment I am extremely proud of. ↗

— Jack Nicklaus

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Do you want to be an artist and a writer, or a wife and a lover? With kids, your focus changes. I don't want to go to PTA meetings. ↗

— Stevie Nicks

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I made a conscious decision that I was not going to have children. I didn't want others raising them, and looking after them myself would get in the way of being a musician and writer. ↗

— Stevie Nicks

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A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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