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I write poetry anyway and have for years and years. For me, putting fiction and poetry together is like the best of both worlds.
Ellen Hopkins
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I write my songs because I've lived them.


Katy Perry
I'm Marie Lightfoot, or at least that's the name my publisher puts on the covers of the books I write about true crime. In classic 'true crime' fashion, my latest one is titled 'Anything to Be Together.'
Nancy Pickard
I write to explore something that fascinates me, and I write the way I do because it is the only way I know how to write.
Cathy Marie Buchanan
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I don't read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something.


Kelley Armstrong
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I write what I write.


Umberto Eco
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I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because I love it!
Isabel Allende
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I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it.
Fred Frith
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I write music because I love it. Sometimes more than anything in the world.


Ansel Elgort
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I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!


Jackie Evancho
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With songs, I've always pledged to be honest. I write my songs because I've lived them.


Katy Perry
I write a letter to my mother every day, because in that letter, I write down my day. And if I don't write it down, then tomorrow I will forget it and it's gone.
Isabel Allende
I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint. You're a writer because this is what you do.
Richard Price
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I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful - for all of it.
Kristin Armstrong
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
Tags: Just Because Life
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I write very slowly.


Carla Bley
I don't write about love because it makes for easy, passive heroes. I write about how love makes my characters more autonomous, more self-possessed, more opinionated and powerful. I write about characters who pursue relationships that make them the people they want to become. I write about love as a superpower.
Lauren Kate
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With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.
Tamora Pierce
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If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better to write with collaborators.
Brian Wilson
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I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.
Edward Bond
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