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The form I most enjoy writing is the sonnet or sonnet-like forms, where you have a - you know, three stanzas or two stanzas that lead into a concluding couplet. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

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I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

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I try to write relevant songs about life and whatever I'm going through and whatever people are going through. ↗

— Gary Allan

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I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa. ↗

— Gregg Allman

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There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs. ↗

— Gregg Allman

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At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration. ↗

— Chris Van Allsburg

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I want to try and be instinctive as a writer and director. ↗

— Andrea Arnold

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My total year's income from working as hard as I possibly could from writing went from like $30 one year to about $70 the next year. And it made me realize that maybe you couldn't really pay the rent that way. ↗

— Kevin J. Anderson

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Writers want to summarize: What does this mean? What did we learn from this? That's a very 19th-century way of thinking about art, because it assumes that it should make our lives better or teach us something. ↗

— Laurie Anderson

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The thing I am attracted to is just good writing and stories that are based somewhat in reality. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

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