Write Quotes
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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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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.
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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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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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I just realized quite early on that I'm not going to be the type who can write a novel every two years. I think you need to feel an urgency about the act. Otherwise, when you read it, you feel no urgency, either. So I don't write unless I really feel I need to, and that's a luxury.
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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 just want to sit in my room and write books.
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I must never write when I do not want to write.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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When I write a movie, I write it for me.
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I really hate to write.
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I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
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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 don't really belong to that world and I don't think anyone's going to miss me. I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.
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She lives the poetry she cannot write.
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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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If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.
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I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
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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 understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
