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I had never read Upton Sinclair. I didn't read 'The Jungle' in high school or anything like that. But it's pretty terrific writing. ↗

— Paul Thomas Anderson

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I think my job is to try and be as honest as I can with what is in my mind and how I feel - I think that's what you're supposed to do, if you're a good writer. So I try to do that. I know I do that. I do do that. ↗

— Paul Thomas 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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First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. ↗

— C. Day Lewis

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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads. ↗

— Paddy Ashdown

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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. ↗

— Aristotle

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I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand. ↗

— David Antin

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When I got to the reading all the work, I was reduced to being an actor in an experimental play that I'd already written. And I didn't want to be an actor. ↗

— David Antin

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I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how. ↗

— Fiona Apple

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I'm the guy who gets uncomfortable. That's why I was able to write 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin' and 'Knocked Up.' I believe in those guys. ↗

— Judd Apatow

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