Write Quotes
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I have never written for an audience. On the other hand I do not write merely to please myself.
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I write poetry on my iPhone. I've got about 100 poems on there.
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It is remarkable what fine hands men of genius write, even when they are as awkward in all other uses of the hand as a cow with a musket.
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No man can write who is not first a humanitarian.
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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.
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I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland.
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That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.
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I'm the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that's horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.
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I'm usually really drawn to a song, and I know it would be good to cover if it sounds like something that I could write, or I wished I could write. Sometimes a writer just sounds like they're in your head, and that is really cool for me.
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I've never yet managed to write a novel which didn't have an Indian central character.
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We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.
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I don't really write. I'm an on-the-spot type of person. This beat, let's listen to it; let's vibe. And then I'll do a melody, and then we'll go back and do it.
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I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.
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It took me ten minutes to write this very sentence. I'm no writer. This is not my calling.
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I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.
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I had novels to write, so I wrote them.
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Looking back, I see that I write books about brothers and sisters, about what makes up a family, what works and what is nurturing.
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I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
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I love pop music, but at the same time, I'm seeking to write whatever I'm organically inclined to.
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Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write it, mostly technical things pertaining to craft.
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I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant!
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Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.
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They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love it, they absolutely love it. Then they say, 'But doesn't it need a small dog, and an Eskimo, and shouldn't it be set in New Guinea?' And you say, 'But it is a sophisticated romantic comedy set in Paris.'
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I only write in blue ink.
