Write Quotes
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I wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word.
Walker Evans -
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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So many people can now write competent stories that the short story is in danger of dying of competence.
Flannery O'Connor -
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 -
I write songs from the heart, and I don't hold back.
Laura Mvula -
I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine... before she realizes she's reading.
Maya Angelou -
National identity is a motion. It's something you're inside, you don't get what's happening, you can't see it from above. And that's where you have to write. You can't see what's happening now or what's going to happen, so you just dive into it and write.
Karl Ove Knausgard -
No one can ever write about anything that happened to him after he was twelve years old.
Ignazio Silone
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All we know how to do is write music and love God.
Sonny Sandoval P.O.D. -
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.
Cheryl Baker Bucks Fizz -
All the best songs are, I think, the easiest write because they just come out.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte -
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.
Jennifer Donnelly -
I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.
Linda Ronstadt -
With our first record, we wrote concept songs but not a concept record.
Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
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To do an extreme metal record is something that is well within my capacity as a musician to write stuff out of the box, write stuff that's probably more extreme than the band I'm in at the present time, and it's something that needs to come out of me one way or another.
Phil Anselmo Pantera -
The big thing that everyone forgets, you're famous and on TV and everything, but I think there's something very rewarding to be able to write a song, record it, and have it turn out as you heard it in your head, or even better.
Phil Collen Def Leppard -
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.
Flannery O'Connor -
Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I have to write everything down.
Cate Blanchett -
It's easier to write about a celebrity, a personality, than it is to dig in and write about the music.
Lee Ranaldo Sonic Youth -
You're always going to write and draw inspiration from things that you're feeling, things that you've felt. It's kind of impossible not to unless you're writing a song and there's an exact scenario that you're trying to write a song for.
Harry Styles One Direction
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There has never been a greater illusion than fear. Fear exists only whilst you believe in it - whilst you fear it. So...stop believing, stop fearing. Set up a shadow inventory, write down all your fears and set out on your warrior path. Make this your life purpose and gold will be smelt from your terror.
Geoff Thompson -
I hate editing. I love to write, but I hate to reread my stuff. To revise.
Barry Hannah -
But 'why then publish?' There are no rewards Of fame or profit when the world grows weary. I ask in turn why do you play at cards? Why drink? Why read? To make some hour less dreary. It occupies me to turn back regards On what I've seen or pondered, sad or cheery, And what I write I cast upon the stream To swim or sink. I have had at least my dream.
Lord Byron -
I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I'm kinda sentimental about the jewels.
Ava Gardner