Write Quotes
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You can't write about an iconic Hollywood star of the sixties without bumping up against Elizabeth Taylor.
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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.
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A lot of people write and tell us what The B-52s meant to them - straight, straight-A students, those who were a little awkward, weren't always the ones who fit in. People have told us that just having us and our music was beyond important and really made me feel that what we were doing was worth something big.
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When you get divorced, you have to go through this awful thing of listing everything you own. When you actually sit down and write the list, you realize that the only good investments are art and property.
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I don't write with a machine. I write with a pen and a paper, which is what is most comfortable for me.
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There may be a point where I may decide to write an autobiography.
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Some critics will write 'Maya Angelou is a natural writer' - which is right after being a natural heart surgeon.
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Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's pleasure, but you don't get wiped out.
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I meet kids now who become novelists, poets, write for the theater and movies, who were simply inspired by what they saw during the Spoleto Festival.
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Anyone who says, “Here’s my address, write me a poem,” deserves something in reply. So I’ll tell you a secret instead: poems hide. In the bottoms of our shoes, they are sleeping. They are the shadows drifting across our ceilings the moment before we wake up. What we have to do is live in a way that lets us find them.
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When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.
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I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality.
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I have no control over the super PAC; all I do is write the check.
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I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite.
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I write poems to find out why I write them.
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And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness.
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You live through stuff, and it affects the way you feel about the world, and you write about it.
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It's hard to write new stuff when the songs you have written before are still changing and evolving. It would be like building something when the foundations there are not really solid.
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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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You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.
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Paris is an unsolved puzzle. She inspires me in a way that other places don't. And she demands more of me. Just try to write about her without bumping into cliche after cliche.
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To be honest, I would never have imagined myself acting on a sitcom that I didn't write.
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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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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
