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In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write?

Gao Xingjian

History

Literature

Self

Writing

When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

I find writing songs hard, because it does not come naturally to me. I never set out to be a songwriter or a singer.

Robert Wyatt

Songs

Writing

I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.

Steven Wright

Numbers

Writing

I'm writing an unauthorized autobiography.

Steven Wright

Autobiography

Writing

No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It's hard work writing and recording music, and it's morally wrong to steal it.

I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge.

As far as arrangements after the basic track is cut, if I'm writing a horn arrangement or playing strings, I might arrange that, plan that out. Other times, I'll just sit and roll tape.

Bernie Worrell

Writing

I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point.

Bob Woodward

Writing

People shout out for songs and I don't even remember writing them.

I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion.

Like so many writers I started writing stories because I didn't have much time for anything else.