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I'm going to write, and after two years, when I've quit touring, if a special event comes up that I want to do, by all means I will do it, but as far as a structured tour goes, at the last date of 2014 goes, that will be it for touring.

Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.

I try and write honestly about what I see around me now.

If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished the three pages, don't write it; it'll be that much easier to get going next day.

But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.

I had art as a major, along with English, French and History. I had dance, modern dance. In English I was allowed to write my own poetry, which I eventually got published.

Then in my early teens, when the home computer bubble was blowing, I had one of the first, an Acorn Atom, and used to write primitive adventures on that.

Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen.

Every Republican's voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing. Romney wants to let the - he said in the first 100 days he's going to let the big banks once again write their own rules - unchain Wall Street. They're gonna put y'all back in chains.

Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.

I would go to work from 9 to 6, go home, nap for two hours, then write from 8 to 2 a.m.

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think about what you shall write.

If you write a hit song for Britney Spears, it's worth several million dollars. Just one song! And it might have taken you two hours to do it. It's like mining for gold. It takes a lot of skill and a lot of technique.

I won't let people write anything they want to about me.

I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I'm willing to put my own sanity and my reputation behind it.

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

In Stratford you either turn into an alcoholic or you better write.

Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

We were the rebels of the music industry so we wanted to write a rebellious song.

Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons.

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.

Golf is a game in which you yell "fore," shoot six, and write down five.

The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.

For me, the work begins with a rough cut of the film. I can't do much with the script. I've tried to write music to a script prior to seeing the film, but I've found it turns out to be a waste of time.

I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.

I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write.

You'll almost encounter a superstition amongst musicians, people sort of go through strange rituals, what they need to do to write a song.

But at this phase of my life, I want to write and not have to think about whether a song is going to be a hit. I want to explore the music that inspires me, and I don't want to ape myself.