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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
Tags: Just Because Life
I'd probably be a super wealthy guy if I had sat around writing songs and getting them placed like everyone else I know. But I write songs about people or after I meet them and they're somewhat biographical - they're fiction but also non-fiction.
Nile Rodgers
Tags: People Like About
It's kind of like a challenge to myself to be able to hear somebody else's hook and kind of interpret the words. Because my own hooks, I already know what I mean when I write them.
Eminem
Tags: Like Because Know
I don't think the record company is aware of it. Because they just bury my albums and don't release them.
Les Baxter
That's the way I will write characters, put a fair amount of myself in them, and then everyone else who was like that person, I will pick and choose.
Jeffrey Eugenides
Tags: Like Who Them
When I write, I write for myself, and I have high expectations... so I'm just trying to meet those. I'm not going to distract myself with other people's expectations.
Hannah Kent
Tags: People Just Going
I write in coffee shops, libraries, parks, museums. I get antsy and then get on my bike and go someplace else, letting the ideas spin around in my head as I dodge taxis.
Phil Klay
Tags: Get Go Then
I may have a little bit of a talent for music, but I've learnt to tap into my own self when I write. When I put the drill bit inside my heart, sometimes I come up with something light and frothy, sometimes with something deep and painful, but it's great to connect with the audience.
Neil Diamond
Tags: Great Music Up
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I write what I write.


Umberto Eco
Tags: Write I Write
Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.
Lisa Scottoline
Tags: Women Legal About
I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.
Quentin Tarantino
Tags: Good Think Really
I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
Michel de Montaigne
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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
Tags: Money Me Because
I don't project no image. I just act like myself. I write about how I feel, the emotional stage I'm in at the time. So I write from the heart. I never write from my mind. My brain, I mean.
Waka Flocka Flame
Tags: Time Like About
I write for myself, and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there.
August Wilson
But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It's like anything else. It's a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever.
Ron White
Tags: Work You Like
I tend to plan as I write. And I want to leave myself open and the character open to keep on going until it seems to be the time to stop.
Roddy Doyle
Tags: Time Want Going
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I write very slowly.


Carla Bley
I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Tags: Only He Own
When I lecture, under almost all circumstances, I write a new lecture for the occasion. It helps me think. It helps me make demands of myself that I would not otherwise make.
Marilynne Robinson
Tags: Me Think Would