It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolate… — Natalie Imbruglia

It's much easier to write when you're sad. But you can end up isolated and depressed because you almost need to put yourself in that situation to have that angst to write from.

Natalie ImbrugliaMusician · Australian · b. 1975

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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers. — Gore Vidal
One must be an inventor to read well. There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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