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I have writing songs on my own for about six years.

Joanna Newsom

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Years

I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to.

Joanna Newsom

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Writing

I talk to Simon, I write to him. I never used to write a diary. But now I'm writing a diary to him. I think it's not just me, but lots of others, family and friends, can still feel him around.

I like myself better when I'm writing regularly.

Willie Nelson

Writing

Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.

All the details of the life and the quirks and the friendships can be laid out for us, but the mystery of the writing will remain. No amount of documentation, however fascinating, can take us there.

That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.

V. S. Naipaul

Writing

The reason is that they define how I have gone about my business. I have trusted to intuition. I did it at the beginning. I do it even now. I have no idea how things might turn out, where in my writing I might go next.

Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will - with luck - come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise.

When you're writing these things, you're in a room making each other laugh, you really have very little sense of political correctness or incorrectness. This is a question that Europe tends to ask and America doesn't.

If I did anything 'next,' I would do writing.

Ellen Muth

Writing

Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment.

The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most recently. They're definitely very serious about making money, and that's not a wrong thing, but you don't have to make money the same way all the time.

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

Iris Murdoch

Luck

Writing

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

Haruki Murakami

Despair

Writing