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Enough people write about me every day without even interviewing me.

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

I like to sing. I write music. Country songs. You have to if you're in Nashville. It's part of the lease. You sign a lease that says, I will write country songs and pay my rent on time.

Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them.

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.

I attempt to write a good novel. Whether it is literature or not is something that will be decided by the ages, not by me and not by a pack of critics around the globe.

A novel usually takes me two years. A year to research and plan and dream. Then a year to write.

For that reason you can't write with music playing, and anyone who says he can is either writing badly, or not listening to the music, or lying. You need to hear what you're writing, and for that you need silence.

Overall, we had about 50 meetings where the brothers would say that I couldn't do any solo records, I couldn't write for other people, I couldn't do this and I couldn't do that. These guys were trying to nail my feet to the ground.

A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it.

My deal was that they would use a full-length picture of me in my underwear and a full-length picture of me all done up, and they would write about how long it took and how much it cost, because that was the whole point. It was very liberating.

Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.

I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.

When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century.

I write my own songs, and I only see their flaws.

And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate.

It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.

If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.

That actually is one of my huge challenges right now because I write best at night, no question. I can focus. You know you're not getting any phone calls, I can shut everything down, and I'm just more creative at night.

And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time.

Writing was not a childhood dream of mine. I do not recall longing to write as a student. I wasn't sure how to start.

But even before that, in 1980 I went so far as to write a book about what had happened. And I wrote all about the bank robbery, I went ahead and printed it even though I had no use immunity for it.

Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.

I'll make music, whether or not anyone is listening, for the rest of my life. It's a natural form of expression for me, the same way I draw and write and sing.

I write about stuff that happens to me, so I try to live as interesting a life as possible.