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"You can get stale writing with each other for a while."
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"Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists."

"A true piece of writing sets you free."

"Through writing, an author opens the window of his heart through which a reader can see the inner self of the author."

"Writing means not just staring ugliness in the face, but finding a way to embrace it."

"What is your advice to young writers? "Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes."
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"It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest."

"You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know."

"A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by."

"I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside."

"If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today."

"Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves."
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