Write Quotes
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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
Saul Bellow
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I like to process things and I do like to write about what I’m feeling and when something really emotionally hits me, whether it’s joyful or traumatic, I know I need to write about it to get that experience out.
Noah Kahan
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I write slowly.
Yann Martel
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When I write, I want something to sound good itself.
Padgett Powell
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It's hard to be in the limelight and write songs that cater to fans that have expectations of you. We just want to write songs that we love, but all the different people with different ideas coming in make it difficult. We have to ask ourselves if we're writing for the most important people: the fans.
Josh Dun Twenty One Pilots
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I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something.
Fiona Apple
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If you do write down your passwords, don't make it obvious which password corresponds to which account. Even better, write the passwords incorrectly and make up an easy rule for fixing them. You could decide to add 1 to each number in your password, so that 2x6Y is written as 3x7Y.
Barton Gellman
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If you want a database, you don't go out and say you're going to write it. I see platforms as going in that direction.
Parker Harris
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I play piano and write better than I can sing.
Irene Cara Escalera
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At least I can write.
R. L. Stine
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Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.
Taylor Swift
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Before I studied story, I was trying to write a novel, and it was terrible. It wasn't going anywhere, and I couldn't figure out what I was trying to do. It was really hard; much harder than I thought it was going to be. Now that I've studied story, I think I'd have a different approach and maybe I could actually get it done.
Donald Miller
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I write literary, not commercial, fiction - or so I've been told by my publishers who are proud I write literary fiction but secretly wish I wrote commercial.
Tawni O'Dell
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I write what I write.
Umberto Eco
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You write about what you know.
Larry David
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If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.
Calvin Trillin
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To write, you have to want something to survive you.
Elena Ferrante
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Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care. I just do comedy.
T. J. Miller
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I write about true-life type things.
Karen Kingsbury
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Maybe I'll write an episode of 'Black-ish' about a guy being fired in late-night.
Larry Wilmore
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I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.
Vikram Seth
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When I do stand-up for a long time, I'll get burned out, then I'll get an acting gig. For me, the grass is always greener. I'd like to do a mixture of all of it. My goal is just to do small movies that I've written. That's what I'm trying to do now, just write smaller movies.
Zach Galifianakis
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My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.
Patrick deWitt
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I hope never to retire. I write so many because it's the thing I like to do most - to write. And if you write every day, you just naturally get a lot of books.
Eve Bunting