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I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

Although I write screenplays, I don't think I'm a very good writer.

When we write, we complement each other. We wrote six songs, Barry and I, while Robin was ill during the American tour, and they were terrible until Robin came back, and then everything worked out.

The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way.

Sometimes my boyfriend would write the lyrics and I would write the melody, and other times I would start from scratch. Or sometimes I would take a local poem and put that to music.

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

I would not say I chose to write long poems on a conscious level. The long poem has been a relative constant.

I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words have rhythm and words have melody.

I'm going to write, and after two years, when I've quit touring, if a special event comes up that I want to do, by all means I will do it, but as far as a structured tour goes, at the last date of 2014 goes, that will be it for touring.

Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.

I try and write honestly about what I see around me now.

If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished the three pages, don't write it; it'll be that much easier to get going next day.

But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.

Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and used to write primitive adventures on that.

Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen.

Every Republican's voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing. Romney wants to let the - he said in the first 100 days he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules - unchain Wall Street. They're gonna put y'all back in chains.

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.

I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m.

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.

If you write a hit song for Britney Spears, it's worth several million dollars. Just one song! And it might have taken you two hours to do it. It's like mining for gold. It takes a lot of skill and a lot of technique.

I won't let people write anything they want to about me.

I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I'm willing to put my own sanity and my reputation behind it.

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write.

Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

We were the rebels of the music industry so we wanted to write a rebellious song.