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As a writer given to the old formalities of rhyme and meter, I sometimes feel endangered these days.


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It's hard to write a song about reality because reality doesn't rhyme.


CeeLo Green
I would say if you want to write, write what you care about. I think that's the most important thing. I think if you write what you care about, you stand a better chance of having the reader care about your story.
Jerry Spinelli
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If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want.
Frederik Pohl
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I don't care what you say about me anymore! I don't care what you write about me anymore. I don't care! This is my life. I can't have anybody messing with my life. I just want to be Gerry Cooney, doing what I want to do. I want to be what I am. A fighter.
Gerry Cooney
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And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.


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People buy a chair, and they don't really care who designed it.


Arne Jacobsen
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What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.
Vernon Jordan
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I won't let people write anything they want to about me.


Gordon Ramsay
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With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.


Walter Dean Myers
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Invest in people who will take care of you when you're old.


Douglas Rushkoff
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There will always be a place for bunnies to talk in rhyme, but that's not what I do.


Lois Lowry
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You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or, rather, you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.
Ernest Hemingway
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What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.
Erica Jong
Snooker players go into steady decline and lose their intensity after a while. But I will have real purpose the next five years. I want to prove people wrong and win a lot more tournaments.
John Higgins
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I simply want you to give to yourself as much as you give of yourself. By taking care of yourself financially, you will truly be able to take care of those you love.
Suze Orman
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The problem is, you see, I've just got so many subjects I want to direct.


Richard Attenborough
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I know, if I am playing well, I can be as good as anyone, and I want to show people who write you off and forget about you.
Alan Smith
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Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre.
Pete Townshend
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One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.
Nolan Ryan
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