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A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words.

I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. It's machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different.

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.

Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.

You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire.

There's some things I can't write about, just terrible personal tragedies.

My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.

I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.

I always try to write a song, I never just want to write a record.

I can never tell ahead of time which book will give me trouble - some balk every step of the way, others seem to write themselves - but certainly the mechanics of writing, finding the time and the psychic space, are easier now that my children are grown.

I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in front of a computer. Now, when I have more time, I function the same way: if it's writing time, I write.

If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write.

I write about true-life type things.

I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

I write a song to be recorded. And to some extent to be performed, but definitely more to be recorded than performed, because the recording will last longer than a performance.

It just happens I write fast and always have done.

I think of myself as a guy who tries to write screenplays and now has tried to direct one. Anything more than that is meaningless and it gets in the way of being a real human being.

When I reach the point that I write Yesterday, then I can retire.

I write novels and other things.

Happy songs are very difficult to write. How many truly great upbeat songs are there?

I was reading a lot of books I admired, and thought that I would like to write something like that someday.

I had real plans for my next decade and felt I'd worked hard enough to earn it. Will I really not live to see my children married? To watch the World Trade Center rise again? To read - if not indeed write - the obituaries of elderly villains like Henry Kissinger and Joseph Ratzinger?

Well, I think every film student goes into film school thinking they want to write and direct their own movies, and they don't realize how much goes into it, and what a process it is.

Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.

I'm not the sort of writer who can walk into a party and take a look around, see who's sleeping with whom and go home and write a novel about society. It's not the way I work.

I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.