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What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why. ↗

— Allen Tate

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Not every story has explosions and car chases. That's why they have nudity and espionage. ↗

— Bill Barnes and Gene Ambaum

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Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

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Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing. ↗

— James Taylor

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For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work. ↗

— Gay Talese

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I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel. ↗

— Gay Talese

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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work. ↗

— Gay Talese

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Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone. ↗

— Amy Tan

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Someone who does an act. In a democratic society, you're supposed to be an activist; that is, you participate. It could be a letter written to an editor. ↗

— Studs Terkel

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It's very hard to find critics or a magazine today that will publish material that is genuinely independent and written without any concern about being cut off some distributor's list or not be invited or flown into screenings. ↗

— Wim Wenders

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