Write Quotes
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I don't know what I'm going to write when I begin to write. It feels like you are walking down a path, but you can't see around the bend and you don't know where you are going to go, which is fun.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel -
I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed.
Marco Polo
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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.
Stevie Wonder -
I write about things that tear me apart, and it's all very personal to me. It's funny to hear people disassemble the lyrics. If they get it wrong, it almost means more to me, because it's morphed into something that is meaningful to them.
Robby Takac Goo Goo Dolls -
I heard some stuff recently from Julian Casablancas, and his solo stuff is amazing. If I could write with anyone, it would be him.
Harry Styles One Direction -
It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.
Ezra Pound -
I always write the pieces I want to write.
Harrison Birtwistle -
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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You can only write by putting words on a paper one at a time.
Sandra Brown -
I only write in blue ink.
Kat Graham -
I'd like to actually work with a lot of other people, and whether it's someone who is completely unknown who I love and think is a talent, maybe I'll work with them, or, like, maybe I'll work with some of the biggest pop stars and write music for them.
Flume -
Conception of a film starts with the music. Always. I hear the movie before I can ever write it. I would say that 80% of the time, that's the successful stuff. It's the other stuff I have to work for to get right, and sometimes it doesn't work out, but the music is always the beginning. So I'm still a music journalist.
Cameron Crowe -
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 -
When you write something it has to hit the level that you accept as being good.
Will Champion Coldplay
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I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.
Taylor Swift -
When you're No. 1 or No. 300, you still get to play and write the songs.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
I write because I have authority from life to do so.
Bessie Head -
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 -
If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.
David Belasco -
I promised myself that I would write as well as I can, tell the truth, not to tell everything I know, but to make sure that everything I tell is true, as I understand it. And to use the eloquence which my language affords me.
Maya Angelou
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In modern novels I try to not let myself get away and to be here, and that's why I write about my life and myself. But even when I do that there's an element of disappearing to a place that's not me. It's "the selflessness of writing". It seldom happens, but when it does it's worth quite a lot.
Karl Ove Knausgard -
I wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word.
Walker Evans -
So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?
Ted Nelson -
I'd love to write with some people from the U.K., like Ed Sheeran, Emeli Sande... there's a very long list.
Fleur East