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video gen. patton’s raunchy poem

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Lyrics & Poetry Writing: Gen. George Patton’s raunchy poem.

It begins with a character, usually, and once he stands up on his feet and begins to move, all I can do is trot along behind him with a paper and pencil, trying to keep up long enough to put down what he says and does.

William Faulkner

If my poetry aims to achieve anything, it’s to deliver people from the limited ways in which they see and feel.

Jim Morrison

It is only natural to pattern yourself after someone. But you can’t just copy someone. If you like someone’s work, the important thing is to be exposed to everything that person has been exposed to.

Bob Dylan

If you wait for inspiration to write, you’re not a writer. You’re a waiter.

Dan Poynter

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Oscar Wilde

Socially, a journalist fits in somewhere between a whore and a bartender. But spiritually he stands beside Galileo. He knows the world is round.

Sherman Reilly Duffy

I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the hook, and the lyrics come last.

John Legend

If you haven’t got an idea, start a story anyway. You can always throw it away, and maybe by the time you get to the fourth page you will have an idea, and you’ll only have to throw away the first three pages.

William C. Gault

Read a thousand books and your words will flow like a river.

Lisa See

No one can write decently who is distrustful of the reader’s intelligence or whose attitude is patronizing.

E. B. White

I haven’t got 10 rules that guarantee success, though I promise I’d share them if I did. The truth is that I found success by stumbling off alone in a direction most people thought was a dead end, breaking all the 1990s shibboleths about children’s books in the process.

J.K. Rowling

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

George Bernard Shaw

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

G.K. Chesterton

It is perfectly okay to write garbage — as long as you edit brilliantly.

C. J. Cherryh

It’s an accepted fact that all writers are crazy; even the normal ones are weird.

William Goldman

Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk — away from any open flames — to remind yourself that if you don’t write daily, you will get rusty.

George Singleton

Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I’m writing a book. I’ve got the page numbers done.

Stephen Wright

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Victor Hugo

Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

Edward Albee