Written Quotes
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I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you
Ernest Hemingway
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A short story I have written long ago would barge into my house in the middle of the night, shake me awake and shout, 'Hey,this is no time for sleeping! You can't forget me, there's still more to write!' Impelled by that voice, I would find myself writing a novel. In this sense, too, my short stories and novels connect inside me in a very natural, organic way.
Haruki Murakami
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I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking me, in fact, to drive me back into the absurdity of writing. I do not enjoy writing.
Israel Horovitz
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This book could not have been written without the people of Mongolia, who allowed me to live among them for a time and who taught me their history over salted tea and vodka while the winter eased into spring.
Conn Iggulden
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
Ezra Pound
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Publication is almost certainly a punishment for having written a book.
Joseph O'Neill
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Definitely, I want to continue doing films and television, but my heart is in music. I've written for most of my life.
Michael J. Willett
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I feel like part of the inequality is that there are few great roles written for older women, and I think part of that is, basically, people want to look at young women, whereas men are still considered attractive - or more attractive - when they get older.
Erin Davie
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I'm not really satisfied with anything I have written to date.
Mike Gordon
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I've written just about everything for the sake of putting shoes on the children's feet - and a bottle of gin in the cupboard.
Ray Guy
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I don't think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn't have patter that was written.
Rita Coolidge
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Words were written out for me phonetically. I learned to quack in French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese and German.
Clarence Nash