Write Quotes
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I always write the pieces I want to write.
Harrison Birtwistle
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As soon as a thought darts, I write it down.
Thomas Hobbes
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To be honest, I would never have imagined myself acting on a sitcom that I didn't write.
T. J. Miller
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Penmanship means a lot to me. I don't have cursive penmanship, though. I've created my own penmanship. It's very clear. Everyone can read it. I write things down all day long.
Action Bronson
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Every time an adult is going to write something for a teenager and you don't have, physically, a person who is that, you are always going to be a little off.
Zoe Saldana
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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.
Flannery O'Connor
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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.
Cynthia Leigh Wilson The B-52s
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Even writing verses from my first album, there were songs that I didn't use because I just felt that they weren't really for me. But I think that happens naturally when you write songs. You're in a different mood in every session. There's so many songs out there that could potentially be used by other artists.
Fleur East
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Whatever you write about me, don't make it sad.
Rita Hayworth
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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.
Cameron Crowe
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Anyone who has problems, or worries, anyone who laughs and cries, anyone who feels can write. It's only talking on paper... talking about the things that matter to us.
Patricia Reilly Giff
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My biggest problem about writing is whenever I write piano pieces, because I then have to learn to play them, which is sometimes not so easy.
Philip Glass
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Real poetry, is to lead a beautiful life. To live poetry is better than to write it.
Matsuo Basho
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I probably write 10 things to every one that I want to use. It's easy for me to write something that's so poppy that it's wrong for me. If I was 22 years old... it's easy for me to write something that's less mature than I am or ought to be. I'm looking for something that acts my age.
Alex Chilton Big Star
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I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.
Joanne Rowling
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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.
Adele
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Write to one person, not a million.
Fairfax Cone
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We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out.
Wallace Stegner
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Write down everything you can think of, no matter how stupid it seems. I always write down my thoughts throughout the day. Sometimes good things come out of it, and I'll find an idea to develop into a song, so my best advice is to try and draw inspiration from everyday things.
Grace Martine Tandon
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When you write for yourself, it's 100 percent all your essence.
Camilo
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We speak naturally but spend all our lives trying to write naturally.
Margaret Wise Brown
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My job is to look out on that world that I write about and be as honest as I possibly can about that world. If that's optimistic and uplifting, OK. If it's not, OK.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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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?
Salman Rushdie
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I think if you write from your own gut, you'll come up with something interesting, whereas if you sit around guessing what people want, you end up with the kind of same schlock that everybody else has got.
John Prine