Write Quotes
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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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Let go of your story so the Universe can write a new one for you.
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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.
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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.
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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 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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We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out.
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I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.
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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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I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.
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Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it when you write. If you are a science fiction or fantasy writer, going to conventions and attending panels is very useful.
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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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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.
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As soon as a thought darts, I write it down.
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I don't go into any album with pressing issues. I just try to write songs.
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I always write the pieces I want to write.
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That's what I'd rather be doing more than anything. I love to play and perform and write, record, do whatever - just stay in music.
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I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.
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I try to write in a way that makes people feel things.
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I'm not a big gadget guy. When I write, I'll do the whole thing by hand, and then I'll put it into the computer.
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I've never been able to write for stand-up.
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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.
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There's a tendency when you write a book to portray yourself as the hero.
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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.
