Write Quotes
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
Mallory Ortberg
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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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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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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
Randy Newman
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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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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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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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I write about what happens to me. It's all there. I couldn't do it any other way.
Peter Frampton
