Write Quotes
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Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
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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'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.
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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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Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think.
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We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are.
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Never loan money to friends or family that you are not able to write off entirely.
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When I get into the studio, I write from my heart.
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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
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To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
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The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.
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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 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 know that one of the great arts that the writer develops is the art of saying, 'No. No, I'm finished. Bye.' And leaving it alone. I will not write it into the ground. I will not write the life out of it. I won't do that.
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I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
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To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.
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I always thought I'd write about my dad, at some point, ... I didn't think it would be like this, but it arrived like this. I'd been listening to a lot of Garrison Keillor at the time. I love that simple story that ends on a grace note and you go, 'Wow, I'm just happy to be alive right now.' That was the feeling I was chasing.
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If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.
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I write my songs many times to chord progressions on a piano. Unfortunately, I can't keep playing the piano, so I just record it into the software.
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I write in the studio.
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I love to stay at home and write.
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I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
