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“Topical-sketch writing were incredibly rational and well reasoned: don't do a joke if the subject doesn't deserve it. An ad hominem attack on someone might get you a cheap laugh, but it doesn't earn you any long-term trust. The biggest rule was: you attack whoever's in power. Don't bring your personal bias to the table.”

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Author:Michael Schur

“It's such a pain in the ass to write a book, I can't imagine writing one if I'm not interested in the subject.”

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Author:Michael Lewis

“You have to remember that writing those sorta songs is not reality, it's more like trance, dream, y'know, like dreamwork. The mythical thing can enter the creating but there's the mythical place and the real place. And there's both...I get it between waking and sleeping. Or, when I'm doing something else. I don't sit down and think I'm gonna write about subject X or subject Y. I could be doing something and an impression comes in from outside and the song emerges out of that. It's never thought about or contrived.”

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Author:Van Morrison

“There is no necessity for going to the church and hearing the same story forever. Let the minister write what he wishes to say. Let him publish it. If it is worth buying, people will read it. It is hardly fair to get them in a church in the name of duty and there inflict upon them a sermon that under no circumstances they would read...the idea of going fifty-two days in a year to hear anybody on the same subject is absurd.”

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Author:Robert Green Ingersoll

“And it's a necessity [for journalists] to pretend to be competent on every subject, some of which they really do not understand. They are under that necessity, I regret; I'm sorry for them. But to pretend to understand all the things you write about, and habitually to write about things you do not understand, is a very corrupting thing.”

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Author:Friedrich August von Hayek

“Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.”

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Author:John Irving

“When I want to tackle a story or a subject, I always ask myself three questions: Is it important to talk about that? Will it interest other people than just me? Can I live with that for three or four years because that's how long it takes to do the project, to write the script, and to direct it, and then to do this.”

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Author:Philippe Falardeau

“Write on a subject you love. Your profit center should also be your passion center.”

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Book:The Self-publishing Manual: How to Write, Print, and Sell Your Own Book

Source: The Self-publishing Manual: How to Write, Print, and Sell Your Own Book

“For me, no matter how serious the subject is, when I try to write about it, I have to write about it from a comic point of view. It's just the way it comes out.”

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Author:Julie Davis

“It's difficult to beat making your living thinking and writing about subjects that matter to you.”

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Author:Eleanor Holmes Norton

“But I never want to get to the point where I write a safe song or one that represents my sense of a subject in order to appear civilized.”

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Author:Suzanne Vega

“I write songs about real things... The subject dictates the mood and it goes from there, really.”

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Author:John Mayall