Write Quotes
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
Mallory Ortberg
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We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand.
C. Day Lewis
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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 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 just want to sit in my room and write books.
M. J. Rose
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
Randy Newman
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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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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 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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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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She lives the poetry she cannot write.
Oscar Wilde
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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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When I write a movie, I write it for me.
Taylor Sheridan
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
Ilana Glazer
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I must never write when I do not want to write.
Langston Hughes
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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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I would like to write a movie and, if it wasn't too crazy, also direct.
Tavi Gevinson
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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 really hate to write.
Jack Kerouac
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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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I love to stay at home and write.
Jack Antonoff Fun.
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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.
Laura Mvula
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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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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
Carlene Carter