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If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside.

Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.

Mordecai Richler

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

I really didn't think about song writing.

Adam Rich

Song

Writing

There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

Then l learned to play guitar and l started writing songs and my mother formed for me a publishing business, so we started publishing and managing artists.

The story I am writing exists, written in absolutely perfect fashion, some place, in the air. All I must do is find it, and copy it.

Jules Renard

Fashion

Writing

Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money.

I like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life.

Rob Reiner

Life

Writing

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.

There is both a skill factor and an effort factor in dream recall. People can develop dream recall skills, such as lying still in the morning and writing down whatever comes to mind.

Well, I'd had the Fat Mattress earlier as a writing outlet for songs and that.

Noel Redding

Songs

Writing

The Fat Mattress consisted of people I'd played with before joining the 'Experience and it was put together as a song writing situation.

The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way.