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As a songwriter, I'm not necessarily writing about myself or my life. ↗

— Ben Gibbard

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The songwriting of Hall & Oates is deceptively complex. There are a number of key changes that pass you by as you're listening to the song because they're so seamless and clever. ↗

— Ben Gibbard

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Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

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This time all the historical details and things were right. But I'd written it again in third person, and people found it dry. I decided to throw that one away. ↗

— Arthur Golden

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Simple is the only way I can write. ↗

— Don Gibson

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I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary. ↗

— William Gibson

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What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable. ↗

— Andre Gide

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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes. ↗

— Andre Gide

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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. ↗

— Andre Gide

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Inevitably I draw on my own relationships when I write, so if I'm writing about a fight between a husband and his wife, of course I'm going to think about a recent fight with my husband. Or if I'm writing about sisters, of course I'm going to think about my sister. ↗

— Emily Giffin

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