Write Quotes
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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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National identity is a motion. It's something you're inside, you don't get what's happening, you can't see it from above. And that's where you have to write. You can't see what's happening now or what's going to happen, so you just dive into it and write.
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I just write the stuff I want to at the time, what feels right for me.
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Don't write slogans, write truths.
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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'd like to actually work with a lot of other people, and whether it's someone who is completely unknown who I love and think is a talent, maybe I'll work with them, or, like, maybe I'll work with some of the biggest pop stars and write music for them.
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I write songs, I play instruments, and I produce music that comes out for the world.
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I say I write extrapolations. I look at data points and ask what the world could look like.
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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've been writing for years, you know, and when I get to a particular place, city, or different locale, I find myself first of all being challenged by those that love me to write more.
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When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.
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When I write, I want something to sound good itself.
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I didn't want to write another book about fraudulence.
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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.
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One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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That's the life really isn't it? You write. You record. You play. And it never grows old.
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I don't really write all that well with others.
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I'm a huge David Lindsay-Abaire fan. If I could write, I would want to write like him.
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I write what I write.
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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.
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My instinct is to write under the cloak of an opaque historical setting.
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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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All this is rather pretentious and fey to even talk about, but Flannery O'Connor sat down to write stories. The rest of us, some of us, don't have that kind of wit and genius. We don't do that. We sit down and have some accidents.
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One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.
