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Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws. ↗

— Marty Meehan

#end #laws #lobbying #lobbyists #must

Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap. Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect. ↗

— Alan Dean Foster

#crap #day #even #every #every day

I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to New York! They sent it back because it wasn't novel. ↗

— Ernest Gaines

#because #i #new #new york #novel

Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing. ↗

— Louise Mensch

#laws #once #proper #serious #writing

The saddest songs are written when a person is happy. ↗

— Merle Travis

#person #saddest #songs #written

As a teenager I was obsessed with music and with writing and performing songs. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#music #obsessed #performing #songs #teenager

Fortunately, John Houseman is a marvelous writer and he sat in on so many story conferences. He worked with Welles, you know, and he's a marvelous man. ↗

— Vincente Minnelli

#fortunately #john #know #man #many

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially. ↗

— Alex Kapranos

#best #bits #comes #creative #down

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things. ↗

— Jackie Kennedy

#always #college #did #i #i always

I think I'm part of a generation of crime writers all of whom woke up independently and recoiled with horror at the fact that we'd chosen this very conservative genre. ↗

— Laura Lippman

#conservative #crime #fact #generation #genre