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I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone.

Quote by Sebastian Bach about music

I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a case have not had enough hard cases. But there are very difficult cases out there.

Quote by Floyd Abrams about books

I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it.

Quote by Floyd Abrams about public

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

Quote by Francis Bacon about man

I might be writing what people expect me to write, writing from that place where I might be ruled by economic considerations. To overcome that, I started working with my dreams, because I'm not so censored when I use dream material.

Quote by Kathy Acker about dream, writing, use, people

I understand that postmodern literature probably means people like DeLillo, The Fiction Collective, but I don't get it that those writers are really influenced by postmodern theorists.

Quote by Kathy Acker about writers, fiction, literature, people

You know I think many writers are dangerous to the establishment. I mean, they go against all the rules that you're told writing.

Quote by Kathy Acker about writers, rules, writing, contentment

You know, I've been told that by some of the writers in the generation above me: You'll be able to write when you've found a voice.

Quote by Kathy Acker about writers, voice, contentment

What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.

Quote by Erykah Badu about writers, bad, word, contentment

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about books, reason, good, good luck, people

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about books, reason, good, good luck, people

Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

Quote by Franklin P. Adams about imagination, contentment

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

Quote by John Adams about politics, word, woman, contentment

Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.

Quote by John Adams about knowledge

When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists; but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no...

Quote by John Adams about things, thinking, writing, hope, people, contentment

You lose your anonymity just like a helium balloon with a string. Therefore people are going to have their own opinion and they're going to write in whatever clever manner they desire.

Quote by Kim Basinger about intelligence, opinion, people, contentment

I have only been able to write something I feel, turn it from a thought into a full song, cut it and find a good home for it.

Quote by Michael Bolton about home, thinking, good, good luck

I'd like to write again with Bob Dylan. I have some ideas, and I'd love to work with him, at least lyrically.

Quote by Michael Bolton about work, love

The fact that we write about it doesn't mean we play better than ordinary players at all.

Quote by Al Alvarez about opinion

First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white.

Quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning about time