Write Quotes
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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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Nobody has to give me permission to write.
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I can read and arrange, but I can't write.
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That's just a part of your soul. I couldn't be complacent about that no matter how much I wanted to. Sometimes thinking I have to write songs for an album feels like I have to study for an exam. Then as soon as I start writing I remember how much I love the process. We both do.
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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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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 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.
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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 wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word.
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I still don't know whether I know how to write a sentence.
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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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Every writer has written a spec. It's the first thing you write, and it basically stands as a means of, 'Here's an example of how I tell stories.' It's almost like a business card.
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I didn't start running because somebody asked me to become a runner. Just like I didn't become a novelist because someone asked me to. One day, out of the blue, I wanted to write a novel. And one day, out of the blue, I started to run-simply because I wanted to. I've always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me, and convince me I'm wrong, but I won't change.
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I only write in blue ink.
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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 say I write extrapolations. I look at data points and ask what the world could look like.
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It's a lot easier to write about people when you're not living with them!
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I don't think you should write something as long as a novel around anything that is not of the gravest concern to you and everybody else and for me this is always the conflict between an attraction for the Holy and the disbelief in it that we breathe in with the air of the times.
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It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems.
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As long as I'm around the cats in the hip hop scene, they'll throw me a track and I'll write a rap over it.
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If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills.
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Good genre movies are a little bit like trying to write a haiku. There are certain things that you have to do to fulfill the audience's expectations, but inside that, you have complete freedom to talk about whatever you want. Who wants to see a movie about gun violence in America and class? But, if you set it in this terrifying, fun, roller coaster ride of a movie, you can talk about whatever you want. That's been the game that genre movies play, when they do it well.
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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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That's just the music industry. They always want you to write something like the one that was popular.
