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There's a certain freedom in writing when you don't know if you'll ever have an audience.
I want to become one of the songwriting greats. That's my number one goal.
I love writing Scottish dialogue.
To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.
He read the writing on the wall.
A lot of people are writing about how to conceptualize this.
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may happily strike out his teeth.
We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.
I think of myself as writing realist American fiction. 'Cynical but hopeful' wouldn't be the worst thing I've ever been called.
A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.
I always enjoyed writing music; things pop into my head every day.
There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
You can be whoever you want to be when you are writing songs.
Yes. I am writing full-time. Which is strange. It feels like not having a job.
Yes, writing is essential to me. It's my way of living in the world.
Yes, sometimes I think that all my writing is nothing more than the compensatory work of a frustrated painter.
Writing, for me, is the great organiser. It's while writing that I think most deeply about things.
Writing your memoir is inherently narcissistic.
Writing with you is the only thing that keeps me alive.
Writing with other people is absolutely delightful. It's social, which a writer doesn't usually get to do.
Writing with a film in mind - writing like a screenplay - is a sureshot recipe for disaster.
Writing will remain a passion project.
Writing went from being a calling to being a job. Business ruined things. It became like making sausages in a sausage factory.
Writing well about sports is as difficult as writing well about sex.
Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
Writing was, is, and will always be my favorite job.
