Write Quotes
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I don't think of myself as Scottish or lesbian when I sit down and write. I am glad I have broken out of that limited audience.
Val McDermid
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I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don't have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop!
Edan Lepucki
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I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Louis C.K. was able to make it happen. His producers don't bug him. He's able to go into his cave and write exactly what he wants to write, and there are no decisions made by committee, and you have a singular voice, and everyone's like, 'Oh my God! We love this.'
Parker Posey
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They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. There's only one of those.
T-Pain
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When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I don't really think about genre. I like to write books that I'd love to read myself.
Dan Brown
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I write poetry because I can’t disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat. For a long time I’ve been the servant of the song that comes, that appears and can’t be buried away. How to seal myself up now?…It no longer matters to me who receives what I submit. What I carry out is, in that respect, greater and deeper than I, I am merely the channel.
Gabriela Mistral
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It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.
Barbara Kingsolver
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If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.
Zakk Wylde
Black Label Society
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If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills. Clearly I'm not meant to do anything else.
Harlan Coben
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I took temp jobs, recorded a demo in the evenings and eventually shopped a record deal. All I knew was that I wanted to write songs; thankfully, I also got to sing them.
Natasha Bedingfield
