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Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.

I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do.

Robert Morgan

Life

Curiosity

Writing

We are both drawn to surreal situations so the writing was a joy.

Dylan Moran

Joy

Writing

It's very strange writing science fiction in a world that moves as fast as ours does.

Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest and involvement with expression through words.

I was writing fiction, but not finishing fiction.

Elizabeth Moon

Fiction

Writing

Writing the book was itself a process of concealing and revealing.

Rick Moody

Writing

Being so honest in my writing is cathartic.

Brian Molko

Being

Writing

Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money.

I'm approaching a period in my life though where I'd like to be totally absorbed into music, doing concerts, writing something. Basically, that IS what I am doing.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

Joni Mitchell

Shame

Writing

At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar.

I don't like writing essays or theory.

Adrian Mitchell

Theory

Writing

As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about portfolio decisions, writing reports.

Likewise, I see no shame in writing Captain America or Wolverine.