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First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

Planning to write is not writing. Outlining, researching, talking to people about what you're doing, none of that is writing. Writing is writing.

Music video directors, who conceive, write and direct these works, enjoy no creative rights, receive no ongoing financial benefit from the sale of our work, and many times are not even credited.

It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.

And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.

Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.

The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.

I want to branch out. I want to write. I write poetry. I want to see my children grow up well.

SOON was the first novel where I used a rough outline. Usually I have characters and an idea and write as a process of discovery. Like working without a net.

I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.

I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.

I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - You write backward Es!

You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings.

I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.

I wanted to write songs that were as good as the covers.

I would like to think that Ben and myself have begun a partnership that will take us into different areas of music that we can continue to write, enjoy and keep me involved with music other then what I do with RUSH.

I don't write songs thinking about formats, where is it going to get played, who am I gonna please, what's the outlet for it.

I thought, If people are going to write about what I'm wearing, then I would wear young British designers who need the publicity.

Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.

I was coming back from Tel Aviv recently, and we had forty minutes of bumps. I got so scared I grabbed a paper and pen and put them in my pocket, just in case we crashed and I needed to write a letter from wherever we landed.

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.