"I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write."

-- Leonard Cohen

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“I suppose I like to give people something to talk and think about. I can just be the person that kind of put a message in the bottle to see where it ends up.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.”
“Don't give up on the child. Give the child an education. Give them daily love.”
“I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage.”

Source : Countee Cullen, Gerald Lyn Early (1991). “My soul's high song: the collected writings of Countee Cullen, voice of the Harlem Renaissance”, Doubleday Books
“A lot of fun stuff happens when you go out on a bike compared to when you're in a car. You're more in the environment. It's enjoyable. Even when It's raining It's still fun.”
“My fondest memories were watching the Beastie Boys get prepped to come on stage. They had a lot of antics and they play a lot of basketball... then they were giving out cameras to the crowd, and performing from the bleachers. The most important thing I learned was that you control your crowd, not the other way around.”
“When the artist is truly the servant of the work, the work is better than the artist; Shakespeare knew how to listen to his work, and so he often wrote better than he could write; Bach composed more deeply, more truly than he knew, Rembrandt's brush put more of the human spirit on canvas than Rembrandt could comprehend. When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.”
“Being published is not a necessary validation or a path everyone wants to take with their work. Writingâ€”and finishingâ€”a novel is a great thing in itself, whether or not the book is published, or becomes widely-read or not.”

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