Write Quotes
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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My vocation is to write and I have known this for a long time. I hope I won't be misunderstood; I know nothing about the value of the things I am able to write. I know that writing is my vocation. When I sit down to write I feel extraordinarily at ease, and I move in an element which, it seems to me, I know extraordinarily well; I use tools that are familiar to me and they fit snugly in my hands.
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A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.
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I had a general burnout: I got extremely tired; I couldn't do anything anymore. I canceled tours; I cancelled everything in my life. For a year and a half, I was completely sick; I couldn't do anything. So yeah, I wanted to write about it in my lyrics. 'Anatomy Of A Nervous Breakdown' is really about that, the inspiration behind it.
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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
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I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.
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I wrote when I did not know life; now that I do know the meaning of life, I have no more to write. Life cannot be written; life can only be lived.
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A lot of people say that 'the best songs fall into your lap' and that they're the easiest ones to write and take the shortest amount of time: I wholeheartedly disagree with that.
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If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
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I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.
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Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
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'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.
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I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
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Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.
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I finished 'America America,' and I knew I had to write another book, not just for personal reasons but because I had a contract.
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Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.
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Anyone who knows anything should know you cannot take a master track of a recording and write another song over the top of it. You just can't do that. You can call it a tribute or whatever you want to call it, but it's against the law. That's a problem with some of the younger generation, they don't understand the concept of intellectual property and copyright.
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The thing was always, as every story you write has a built-in problem, was: Was it too personal. That was the thing I wondered about for a long time. Oddly enough, it's often the personal stuff that people come up to you later and say about it, 'I can't believe you put that in a movie. That happened to me.' And sometimes, the thing that you make up happened to no one.
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We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
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I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
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When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.
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I write songs from the point of view I had at a time;I'm not tryingto write songs from a young person's point of view.That only ends in disaster.
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I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.
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I've had to write a column an hour after I've come back from a funeral. A deadline is a deadline, I mean, that was just what my job was.
