#rite

I honestly don't class myself as a songwriter. I've got 'musician' written on my passport. That's even funnier. ↗

— Robert Smith

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I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

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Brooklyn is kind of my writer's retreat. ↗

— Tracy K. Smith

#kind #retreat #writer

Paper and ink are all but trash, if I cannot find the thought which the writer did think. ↗

— Walter Smith

#did #find #i #ink #paper

In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

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Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion. ↗

— Tony Snow

#confusion #experiences #express #fear #generally

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness. ↗

— Anatole France

#down #love #lovers #their #truly

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. ↗

— Socrates

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One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them. ↗

— Todd Solondz

#like #one thing #say #stories #them

Well, so far, at least, my own ideas always take priority over those of other writers. As long as the well doesn't run dry, I imagine this will be the case. ↗

— Todd Solondz

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