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Don Henley

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BRYAN ADAMS I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but...
MARGUERITE YOUNG I think when we were starting out, it was more about imitating our songwriting heroes. We would try ...
ADAM SCHLESINGER Don't try to write to the trend of the moment.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put th...
R. L. STINE If there is pain in my life or something that is wrong. I try to go to that place in me and write fr...
JENEANE SESSUM I write one page of masterpiece to ninety-one pages of shit. I try to put the shit in the wastebaske...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
AIMEE MANN When I write, I try to represent the voices of people I've known who had no voice.
CARLA H. KRUEGER I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in ho...
MOBY I just sort of try to be a good person; try to write music that lifts people and makes me feel good ...
CAROLE KING I try to write about real women, real people - in other words flawed characters.
EMILY GIFFIN I just try to write songs that people are going to have a dialogue about.
BEYONCE KNOWLES I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
L. J. SMITH I tend to write things and don't go the next step and try to get it published. I don't want ...
ROBERT HUNTER I try to be careful to not just say it's a greatest hits show because we've also made effort...
GERRY BECKLEY I write for myself, and I write for my friends and people who I have a connection with. I try to giv...
CASS MCCOMBS When I try to write in English, I feel like a bird without wings still trying to fly.
DEBASISH MRIDHA I write in reverse: Rather than come up with a narrative and write jokes for that narrative, I write...
JEFF KINNEY I don't know if anything I write will endure, but I do try to write it as a narrative that will ...
JONATHAN KOZOL I don't like to write rhetorically or get on a soapbox. I try to make the stuff multi-layered, s...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write lik...
ANTHONY BOURDAIN I try very hard to write the best book I possibly can, every time.
CHARLAINE HARRIS I try not to be overly literal. When I'm writing songs, I write down a lot of words, and then I ...
NEKO CASE Each day I feel a little differently; some times I try to write something that's fictitious and ...
JOSH TURNER I like to write in the mornings, so I try to protect 9 A.M. - 12 P.M. for me. I can drop our older t...
DOUGLAS BRUNT I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.
BRYAN ADAMS I am not a good enough writer to have an agenda or come up with a message and try to put it into a s...
EDDIE VEDDER I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.
J. A. KONRATH I don't write for an auditorium full of people. I don't write for the microphone; I write fo...
BILLY COLLINS When I write, I try to represent the ordinary person in the pew, which means that, ironically, I'...
PHILIP YANCEY I don't write demographically. I don't write a song to reach these people or those people.
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN I try and write honestly about what I see around me now.
BILLY BRAGG I sat down to try to write 'Edinburgh,' an autobiographical novel, and that took five years ...
ALEXANDER CHEE Don't try to write to the trend of the moment.
ALAN DEAN FOSTER Try as we might, we write what we write
BG THURSTON I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
BALTHUS I don't write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in 'Stiff,' I wanted to chang...
MARY ROACH I don't write about good and evil with this enormous dichotomy. I write about people. I write ab...
OCTAVIA E. BUTLER There is no objection to the proposal: in order to learn to be a poet, I shall try to write a sonnet...
JAMES FENTON I try to write very fast. I don't revise very much. I write the poem in one sitting. Just let it...
BILLY COLLINS Every time I write a new book, I want to push myself to try something different.
LAUREN MYRACLE Once in a while, when I first started to write pieces, I would try to write to a reader other than m...
JOAN DIDION I guess, over time, I had convinced myself that I could imagine what it would be like to lose a son ...
JOHN F. KELLY Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands...
AARON SORKIN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I write in longhand and assemble lots of notes, and then I try to collate them into a coherent chron...
JOYCE CAROL OATES I try to write 1,000 words. Some people say it's not about the quantity but about the quality. I...
NATHANIEL RICH That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance.
PAULO COELHO It's fun for me to try to write concise, compact things. It's a very good exercise for me. A...
WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN I'd love to maybe try writing. I don't know if I'd publish anything, but as a hobby, it&...
EMMA ROBERTS I write-down to speak-up.
M.K. ASANTE, JR. I write-down to speak-up.
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JEFF BUCKLEY The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI I write a lot about disadvantaged people, particularly vulnerable children, because I feel that that...
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DEJUAN BLAIR My personal opinion is that, if you're a professional writer, that you do have quotas. So every ...
CHRIS BOHJALIAN I wanted to write plays. I was at Yale graduate school at the time for English literature, not for a...
DAVID DUCHOVNY I think the secret is really observation. Well, if you observe what's going on and try to figure...
SAM COOKE When we hear of people not surviving in this world it should make us more glad that we are alive .We...
GARY F EVANS... I get like a melody that comes up and I try to write it down or record it. Hum it into a tape record...
PAUL TAYLOR I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.
NORA EPHRON I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV I hate politics. I like to write about it, but to get involved in it, to try and make a lot of ignor...
WILBUR SMITH I really - I don't take my work that seriously, and I think that's what keeps me loose. If I...
ELMORE LEONARD I don't try to try to judge people on performance in one short period of time.
HENRY SAMUELI I won't say extremely prolific, but I try to write stuff that will last a long time.
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JENNY LAWSON I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts,...
GARY JENNINGS There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I h...
AUDREY NIFFENEGGER There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I h...
DODIE SMITH All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.
ERNEST GAINES There's no such thing as a perfect person, so it makes no sense to write a perfect person. I don...
DAVID LEVITHAN When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familia...
SATYAJIT RAY I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. Bu...
KATE O'MARA I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.
DANA SPIOTTA I have music on when I write. I don't like the isolation otherwise and find the silence deadenin...
DARREN SHAN I write and write and write, and then I edit it down to the parts that I think are amusing, or that ...
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CARRIE FISHER I try never to speak until people have finished with the weather reports.
ASHLEY WARLICK I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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KATE MCGAHAN I try to write lyrics so that they won't age, which sort of leaves you with the big subjects lik...
FLORENCE WELCH I think you write the film that you want to see, and you try and do it honestly, and you can't c...
EDGAR WRIGHT I don't like people telling me what to do, or trying to MAKE me write songs.
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MARKUS ZUSAK I like to be right. I try not to miss the big ideas, forget the little ones, and try to get them rig...
JEREMY GRANTHAM I write every day. I don't have a writing schedule. I write when I feel like it. Fortunately, I ...
EVE BUNTING We have to ... put more emphasis on the incoming data and the anecdotes we get from the business com...
GARY STERN Getting to the point where I was ready to write a book has been about a 20-year journey of being, re...
PATRICK CARMAN We try to have an emphasis on experimental things.
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GENE WILDER Every time I make a mistake with a company, I write it out and try to figure out why it happened.
GARRETT CAMP I'm one of those people who has to write. If I don't write, I feel itchy and depressed and c...
LIBBA BRAY I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
RAJEEV SHUKLA I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.
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Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
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DON MARQUIS When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?'
DON MARQUIS Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get...
DON MARQUIS I understand what's it like to work all week and on Friday night just want to go and leave your ...
DON CHEADLE Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.
DON SUTTON Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.
DON KING I embarked on my life - I didn't do anything. I don't have an explanation.
DON DELILLO Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he fin...
DON DELILLO I've always seen myself in sentences. I begin to recognize myself, word by word, as I work throu...
DON DELILLO I think a playwright realizes after he finishes working on the script that this is only the beginnin...
DON DELILLO I like the construction of sentences and the juxtaposition of words-not just how they sound or what ...
DON DELILLO A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his li...
DON DELILLO There's a moral force in a sentence when it comes out right. It speaks the writer's will to ...
DON DELILLO I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
DON DELILLO In the face of technology, everything becomes a little atavistic.
DON DELILLO I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to un...
DON DELILLO The future belongs to crowds.
DON DELILLO True terror is a language and a vision. There is a deep narrative structure to terrorist acts, and t...
DON DELILLO Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the id...
DON DELILLO People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
DON DELILLO It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.
DON DELILLO America was and is the immigrant's dream.
DON DELILLO I think more than writers, the major influences on me have been European movies, jazz, and Abstract ...
DON DELILLO There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time whe...
DON DELILLO Never underestimate the power of the State to act out its own massive fantasies.
DON DELILLO Who picks your clothes - Stevie Wonder?
DON RICKLES When writing, I split my time between my chambers and my satellite office: my neighborhood Chick-fil...
DON WILLETT When I take a black-and-white portrait, it's not particularly meant to please you. It's mean...
DON MCCULLIN Our Constitution exists to secure individual freedom, the essential condition of human flourishing. ...
DON WILLETT I think the work that they do and the style of 3D graphics is absolutely fabulous and I think it'...
DON BLUTH I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music.
DON PIPER what man calls civilizationalways results in desertsman is never on the squarehe uses up the fat and...
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