Write Quotes
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So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.
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I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me.
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So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything?
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There is a difference between a great producer and somebody who is a big advocate of your music. Just because you're a big advocate for a band doesn't mean you need to be in the studio with them, and at the same time - we don't need to get into this conversation - you can write a hit, but it might not hit.
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Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I have to write everything down.
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When you write for yourself, it's 100 percent all your essence.
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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 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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I heard some stuff recently from Julian Casablancas, and his solo stuff is amazing. If I could write with anyone, it would be him.
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He also managed to squeeze in some sightseeing: visiting the Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square and the Great Wall. Still, most of his energy was expended in the classroom, where he learned how to read and write Mandarin. After awhile, I gave up writing, ... But I still could comprehend the characters.
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When you write something it has to hit the level that you accept as being good.
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When you're No. 1 or No. 300, you still get to play and write the songs.
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All we know how to do is write music and love God.
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Music is infinite and personal. I don't want to put myself in a box. I want to try everything and I'm trying everything. I'm really trying to write what's in my heart and what I feel without a lot of help in that department. It's about being brave.
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I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.
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I write because I have authority from life to do so.
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I still don't know whether I know how to write a sentence.
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The rain comes down harder as I write. It sheets off the roof in torrents. I wish it would pound against me. Pound the life from my body. The flesh from my bones. The pain from my heart.
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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.
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I only write in blue ink.
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If you can't write your idea on the back of my calling card, you don't have a clear idea.
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I did not write half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed.
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I'd love to write with some people from the U.K., like Ed Sheeran, Emeli Sande... there's a very long list.
