Write Quotes
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You write a novel by inventing a world and inventing the rules that govern that world. Then you break the rules when you want to.
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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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It took me ten minutes to write this very sentence. I'm no writer. This is not my calling.
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I'd like to write the way Matisse paints.
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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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I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
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I wasn't ready to write my own songs when I was in my early 20s. I'm still growing but I definitely grew because of my experiences on the road and in the studio.
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I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.
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Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers.
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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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I don't really write for an audience. I just write what the subject seems to me to require.
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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 don't know what I'm going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you can't see around the bend and you don't know where you are going to go, which is fun.
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As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.
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I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
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I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.
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I like to write about things that are dark or twisted. Where the poetry seems to be is when you start in the dark and reach for the light - that's what makes it not depressing to me.
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I’ve seen these so-called journalists flat-out lie. I say that because incompetence doesn’t begin to explain the inaccurate stories they have written.
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One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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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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We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away.
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No man can write who is not first a humanitarian.
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Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the pulse.
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I'm a long distance runner, and I get my best ideas when I'm out running. It also helps that I can't write it down immediately - if you hold onto an idea, other things will stick on it.
