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I can write anywhere. I write in airports. I write on airplanes. I've written in the back seats of taxis. I write in hotel rooms. I love hotel rooms. I just write wherever I am whenever I need to write.
Garrison Keillor
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The most common misperception about me is that I write fast. I just write often. Every hour that I can.
Joyce Carol Oates
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I write songs about stuff that I can't really get past personally - and then I write a song about it and I feel better.
Amy Winehouse
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I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.


Alan Bennett
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I don't read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something.


Kelley Armstrong
I write all over the house. Because I write in longhand, I can go anywhere I want... I have some notebooks here and there, and then I type it in and pull it out, and I do the revisions all over the place.
Sue Miller
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I write what I write.


Umberto Eco
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I write a lot of lyrics and I'm involved in the producing process, because it's like, if I'm singing it, I want it to be something that I can relate to.
Lindsay Lohan
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I like writing. I get cranky when I can't. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.
Terry Pratchett
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Here's something I probably shouldn't be saying: I never listen to my soundtrack albums because I can't stand it. It's just stereo. When I write, I write in surround. My life is in surround.
Hans Zimmer
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When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.
Haruki Murakami
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One of the things I have become aware of through the years is how much I love the people I write about.
Hubert Selby, Jr.
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
Jackie Collins
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I write very slowly.


Carla Bley
From the stage, I can reach a large audience, and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.
K'naan
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I write at a desk. I have a room of my own where I can have my computer. I write in there, usually directly onto my computer. It used to be the room where my two sons used to sleep with the dog and the cat, but now it's all mine. It has pictures of art from my books on the walls.
Eve Bunting
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I write when the urge hits me, getting the words down as fast as I can type and then I step back from what I just wrote and start a dialectical process where I begin challenging my own writing.
Donald McKay
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I write music. I'm in a band.


Jamie Campbell Bower
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I write fast. I'm one of the lucky ones.


Sara Sheridan
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Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.


Elvis Costello