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Why did I write? Because I found life unsatisfactory.

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that.

I write first for myself as a therapeutic process, to get stuff out and to deal with it.

I started writing songs, I guess, when I was about 13 or 14, but I didn't know if they were good enough yet or anything.

I started writing more with my voice in mind.

I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken.

Democrats cannot win elections without capturing the votes of independent-minded swing voters. And that is where writing off the Tea Party as a bunch of racist kooks becomes self-destructive. The Tea Party outrage over health-care reform, deficit spending and entitlements run amok is no fringe concern.

I have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail.

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.