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The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song. ↗

There are few words in the music business or in art that I'll say people or some writers are overgenerous with words like 'legend' or 'genius', 'he's a pioneer' and all of that. ↗

— Stanley Clarke

#business #few #genius #i #legend

I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all. ↗

— Beverly Cleary

#fourth #graders #i #most #third

People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated. ↗

— Lucille Clifton

#celebrated #mistake #more #people #poetry

Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it. ↗

— Adam Clymer

#book #different #fix #get #look

The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time. I don't do too many notes. I keep it mostly in my head. I usually start writing a new book around January, and it's due October 1. ↗

— Harlan Coben

#around #book #due #head #i

I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I'm always slightly appalled by it when I do. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#appalled #dimension #i #i do #political

Poets don't draw. They unravel their handwriting and then tie it up again, but differently. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#differently #draw #handwriting #poets #their

I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about. ↗

— David Allan Coe

#else #ever #i #nobody #songs

It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political. ↗