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I think that as I continue to write, my writing I hope will become more controversial and more provocative.

I don't think that much anymore in terms of 'write a record, record a record, tour a record,' because in my own mind, things have changed, in that I'm just an ongoing artist. I'm not quite sure what the next project needs to be until it presents himself, and then I know. I just follow dutifully while I'm being led.

Well, it's a badge of honour for any self-respecting poet to be criticized by Auberon Waugh. 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.

The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel - one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.

When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside people.

My motivations are thinking I can write better songs, that the concerts can be better.

Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write.

I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself.

All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.

The experiment of the poem is mostly intuitive. I write the first draft, pulling in the various elements that interest me, in the hope that their being combined will lead to some kind of insight.

A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for the reader.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

I sort of always like to write starting with when I learned how.

I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.

I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.

Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how it is. This is what we have done. This is what we have permitted.

Respectable people do not write music or make love as a career.

And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.

I get so happy when I write a joke. It's a very satisfying, liberating feeling.

No, I think that a person writes a poem because they have an inner urge of something that they want to express, and I think it's that inner urge that you want to express when you write a piece of music.

The easiest thing to do on earth is not write.

Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us.

I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.

I'm quite good at multitasking, but I have to do things immediately. I have a book where I write things down: major topics, deadlines, things like that. Every few months, I start a new book.

I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.

But even before that, in 1980 I went so far as to write a book about what had happened. And I wrote all about the bank robbery, I went ahead and printed it even though I had no use immunity for it.

Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.

I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing.

I write about stuff that happens to me, so I try to live as interesting a life as possible.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.