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I write about the American dream: if you set your mind to do something, you can do it. My fans know they're getting the real thing. ↗

— Jackie Collins

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Whatever you have a passion for, then you must do. If you want to write, write about something you know about. ↗

— Jackie Collins

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I don't dream songs. I'm more apt to write dreams down and then to be able to interpret them into a song. I also tend to get up and write prose in the morning from which will come songs. ↗

— Judy Collins

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If I give myself a chore, for instance, when I was writing the songs for Shameless, I said to myself, Now, every day for 90 days you have to write a song; good, bad or indifferent. So that was really helpful. ↗

— Judy Collins

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He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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I think the only boundaries are individual and personal. A writer should be free to write about anything he or she wants to, including the twin towers. I have made small references to 9/11 in my past two books. ↗

— Michael Connelly

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I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate. ↗

— Michael Connelly

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I realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake. But the truth is you write in the moment and with your head down and there is no way back then that I could have conceived of Harry having the longevity that he has had. ↗

— Michael Connelly

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Poe is the only impeccable writer. He was never mistaken. ↗

— Paul Valery

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