"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."

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"You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say."

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"You want the audience to be uncomfortable."

Richard Thompson, British Musician

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"I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything."

Paul McCartney, English Musician

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"With yourself, I think you have to decide the kind of person that you really want to be, and for me, it's just a sweet girl."

Miley Cyrus, American Musician

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"If you want to be happy, be."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"And I want to say anything is possible. Comma. You know."

Frank Bruno, British Athlete

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"When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means."

David Bowie, English Musician

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"Only those who want everything done for them are bored."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"I didn't really want to be a comedian."

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"I've gotten to a point where I don't want lyrics to mean anything."

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"...he told me all the things he liked to THINK he thought in the misty past."

Psychology

"All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream."

Desire

"I was alone again in the unquiet darkness."

Emotion

"Writers aren't exactly people.... They're a whole bunch of people trying to be one person."

Writing

"Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan I had no girl whose disembodied face floated along the dark cornices and blinding signs and so I drew up the girl beside me, tightening my arms. Her wan scornful mouth smiled and I drew her up again, closer, this time to my face."

Romance

"Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint."

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"Her eyes in the half-light suggested night and violets, and for a moment he stirred again to that half-forgotten remoteness of the afternoon."

Memory

"Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction."

Money

"Just as a cooling pot gives off heat, so all through youth and adolescence we give off calories of virtue. That's what's called ingenuousness."

Youth

"Their eyes are full of kindness as each feels the full effect of novelty after a short separation. They are drawing a relaxation from each other's presence, a new serenity."

Emotion