Write Quotes
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I've been in the room or watched artists walk in who don't write, and you can't figure out what they really want.
Bebe Rexha
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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.
Maya Angelou
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I just want to sit in my room and write books.
M. J. Rose
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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.
Maya Angelou
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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.
Zadie Smith
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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.
Phil Collins Genesis
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
Mallory Ortberg
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She lives the poetry she cannot write.
Oscar Wilde
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
Irvine Welsh
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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.
Barry Manilow
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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.
Laurie Notaro
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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.
Patrick O'Brian
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I write about what happens to me. It's all there. I couldn't do it any other way.
Peter Frampton
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
Randy Newman
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I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.
Tavi Gevinson
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I love to stay at home and write.
Jack Antonoff Fun.
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I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
Iris Johansen
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To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
Aristotle
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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.
Nadia Ali
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
Sally Phillips
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When I write a movie, I write it for me.
Taylor Sheridan
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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.
Cameron Crowe
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Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.
Eddie Slovik
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
Vance Joy