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Most of the songs I write are full of power, and I'm suspecting it may come from my love for grotesque Renaissance art and the Eurovision Song Contest.

Love Power Art Song Write May

I'm interested in the eternal soul. That's what I write about.

Luis Alberto Urrea

Soul Write Interested Eternal About

Oftentimes, especially in the context of an acoustic song, I'm motivated to write by some amount of melancholy.

Song Write Context Melancholy Some

I believed, after writing 'Mrs. Kimble,' that I knew how to write a novel. I quickly discovered that I only knew how to write that novel. 'Baker Towers' was a different beast entirely; and I felt as though I had to learn to write all over again.

Writing Learn Beast Write Over Only

I don't want to write about violence, and I don't want to hang a plot on a murder. I think it's cheap.

Alice McDermott

Think Violence Want Cheap Write

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

Play Write Critic Give Inch He

I just like magical, fantastical stuff. I don't really see it as surreal when I'm writing. It's just, I write, and then I have an idea, and usually, they're quite odd.

Writing Write See Magical Odd Stuff

There's something about the shape that a poem takes in my mind before I write it that has to do with suddenness.

Mind Write Shape Something Poem

It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from Staples for $4.

You Write Paper Whole Costs Much

When I write something that would have made me laugh as a 10-year-old, or would have scared me or would have excited me, I know I'm onto something.

Jonathan Stroud

Me Laugh Know Write Scared Excited

I'd rather let the fiction speak for itself and I don't want to write fiction that tells people how to feel, and I don't want to be judgmental in the fiction.

Bret Easton Ellis

People Speak Feel Want Write Rather

I grew up thinking that you were supposed to read and write all your waking hours.

Thinking You Write Up Hours Your

I taught writing classes at the University of Pennsylvania for a number of years and I realized that all you can do is encourage people and give them assignments and hope they will write them.

Hope People Writing You Will Write

I write almost every single part of my songs, even the actual drum parts sometimes, whether they be simple or layered with many different instruments.

Simple Sometimes Write Single Drum

If you work in the studio system in America, they've almost got to the point where a computer programme could write scripts. Effectively, they hire and fire enough writers until they get something generic.

Work Fire America Enough You Write

With every album, the approach is find the best songs you can find, write the best songs you can write and try to sound better.

Best Better You Find Try Write

I've always been very upfront about the way I write, and I've always used the tools humorists use, such as exaggeration.

Tools Way Write Always Used Been

Well, I would definitely give up performing... But I would still sit down in an office and pretend to write with Dawn, even if we never produced anything, because it's just hilarious. I would miss that.

Jennifer Saunders

Dawn Down Never Write Office Up

I think it's a bit of a myth that if you can read music you can write music. It doesn't work like that.

Alison Goldfrapp

Work Music Think You Write Myth

When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas.

New York Mind New Aim Write Kansas

I don't believe for one moment you can write well what you wouldn't read for pleasure.

Moment Believe You Write Pleasure

I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue.

Want Write Dialogue Necessary Plot

Some magazines are run from the top down, where the editor-in-chief decides what every article is going to be and who's going to write them, and then they're doled out. My idea is to do it the opposite way, to do it from the bottom up.

Down Run Way Write Top Out

Many things I might not write today because I no longer believe them, but I wouldn't change them, since I believed them at the time.

Change Today Time Believe Write

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