#writes

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The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.


Thomas Wolfe


#forget #reader #reads #reason #remember

The joy I get from winning a major championship doesn't even compare to the feeling I get when a kid writes a letter saying: 'Thank you so much. You have changed my life.'


Tiger Woods


#changed #compare #even #feeling #get

The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.


Nadine Gordimer


#answerable #comes #creative #creative act #eden

Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is.


Trey Anastasio


#anyone #guitar #knows #majority #matter

Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list.


Terry Brooks


#become #bestseller #books #del #did

I have yet to have a successful outcome of sitting in a room with someone and trying to write a song. The way that I generally co-write is that someone else writes the music or part of the music.


Shawn Colvin


#generally #i #music #outcome #part

One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish and English lines and see how the translator worked.


Anita Diament


#close #compare #english #favorite #how

We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation.


Art Garfunkel


#beings #crave #feel #going #great

Yes, I did some rewrites of the show as some of the stuff was not very good and I worked my butt off to make it something that the audience liked and that I could be proud of.


Gil Gerard


#could #did #good #i #liked

Stephen King writes a lot of things that are really charming and quirky, and that are more ironic than horror.


William H. Macy


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