Write Quotes
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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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When you write for someone else, you're being an actor, the feeling is the feeling of another.
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I wouldn't write about people who are living and who are close to me, because I think it's a very violent thing to do to another person. And anytime I have done it, even in the disguise of fiction, the results have been horrific.
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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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I write slowly.
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I won't say extremely prolific, but I try to write stuff that will last a long time.
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'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.
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By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware.
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I write songs, I play instruments, and I produce music that comes out for the world.
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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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I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.
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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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Every record we do, we do one song we didn't write.
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There's a tendency when you write a book to portray yourself as the hero.
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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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If you try to write something that's memorable, you'll never get it. Sometimes it's the way the actor says the words that make it memorable.
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I do not write, I build.
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I don't write music for critics or hipsters. I write for me.
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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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And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate.
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I don't really write all that well with others.
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I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.
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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
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Our image, if we have one, has been shaped only by me, Tom and Richard and the songs we write.
