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I sit down at my desk pretty early in the morning and write all day until about 4 or 5 p.m.


Jeannette Walls
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I always know what I'm going to write before I sit down.


Ruth Rendell
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I don't sit down to write a country song. I don't sit down to write a rap song. I just sit down to write a song, you know what I mean? And I try to make that song the best it can be.
Brantley Gilbert
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I don't sit down to write a number one hit. I'm not that good at my job - I don't know how to do that.
Brantley Gilbert
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When I do write, it happens really easily. I'll just kind of sing along to whatever I'm playing, then find a line to build off of, then sit down and write. When I do write, I take care of business!
Isaac Brock
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I could never sit down and write jokes.


Louis C. K.
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.


Wole Soyinka
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There are people who can sit down and write a song about any given subject, and they can do it really, really well.
Glen Hansard
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I don't know what the inspiration for most of songs really mean until I finish them. For the most part, I'm going for a visceral impression, and I write the words last.
Todd Rundgren
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Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.
E. L. Doctorow
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And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future.


Jonathan Brandis
Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.
Nick Cave
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I think everyone should sit down and write a book. It's a lot like therapy but a lot less expensive.


Norma McCorvey
Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
Zoe Kazan
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You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I do. Some people just sit down at the page and start off. I start from what happened, including the why.
Anne Perry
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Any time I sit down and write music, the first part of that is always centering myself and thinking about who I currently am.
Trent Reznor
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With two kids it's hard to find down time to write so I often write during their nap time.


Tori Spelling
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My writing process often begins with a question. I write down ideas and let them stew for about a year. Then, when I sit down to write, I make a list of characters and try to see how they fit.
Cynthia Voigt
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I've wanted to write a ghost story for years, and my main aim was to write the most frightening ghost story that I could think of.
Michelle Paver
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I kind of miss writing songs the way that I used to write songs, in the sense that I would just sit down, and all these words that told a story would come out. There's one Bon Iver song called 'Blood Bank' that is more representative of an older lineage of songs, which I like and I sort of miss. But it just doesn't happen anymore for me.
Justin Vernon
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