Write Quotes
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We speak naturally but spend all our lives trying to write naturally.
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Every record we do, we do one song we didn't write.
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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 don't write music for critics or hipsters. I write for me.
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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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I write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it.
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You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don't, for any reason, ever tell the truth.
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For me, the guitar was just a tool to make songs. I started when I was 10 - I learned what I had to learn to get my ideas across. I always felt I was a weak guitar player, but now I realize with the finger-picking stuff, I actually know how to do what I do with my songs, but I couldn't step in and be an overall guitar player. But my guitar playing has always been driven by the need to write songs.
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I'd love to say that I could write political songs, but I don't feel clued-up enough.
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Write to one person, not a million.
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... every writer I had ever known wrote his best work when he had his back up against the wall and thought he would never write another word.
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I write in public libraries and sometimes coffee shops. I can't write at home and gave up trying long ago. I need activity around me that I'm forced to block out. It helps me focus.
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'Life of Pi' was actually a very simple novel to write.
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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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Let go of your story so the Universe can write a new one for you.
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Nobody has to give me permission to write.
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That's just the music industry. They always want you to write something like the one that was popular.
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I've always asked to be able to speak and write about injustice and to do it in a way that would encourage people to make things better for everyone.
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I can read and arrange, but I can't write.
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I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A.
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It's so, so awful for my entire body and my spine and my hands, and I have a perfectly good desk to write at, but I don't care. I love writing in bed.
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I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?
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Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.
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If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills.
