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John Lennon and Ringo Starr liked my songs. I used to write songs and they heard me sing songs on stage in London.

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.

If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write.

Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book.

My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff.

I think if you feel like you were born to write, then you probably were.

Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse.

When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle.

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.

There are lots of things that happen to me that I don't write about.

I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.

The way I write, words can means lots of different things.

Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigrams. Our heart's blood, as we write it, turns to mere dull ink.

Write as if you were dying.

I could write six songs in one day with everything that's going on.

I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.

I'm not a great deductive thinker, but I will admit to having competence in a very wide range of things - not being afraid to try to write about baseball, choral music and dinosaurs in the same week and see connections among them.

I knew that I had to write my memoirs.

Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.

I prefer to write music for family films. I like people.

The best way for a beginner to write for animation is to closely watch animated films, then read the screenplays for them afterwards.

To me, the newspaper business was a way to learn about life and how things worked in the real world and how people spoke. You learn all the skills - you learn to listen, you learn to take notes - everything you use later as a novelist was valuable training in the newspaper world. But I always wanted to write novels.

Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.

I had a strong desire to write and some free time.

I find it somewhat difficult to write with other people, although it has happened occasionally.

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.

The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.

Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.

All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.

Senorita was fun to sing, but I don't really have a favorite. When you write a bunch of songs, they're like your babies. You don't pick favorites.