Write Quotes
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I consider plot a necessary intrusion on what I really want to do, which is write snappy dialogue.
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Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.
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I always thought I'd write about my dad, at some point, ... I didn't think it would be like this, but it arrived like this. I'd been listening to a lot of Garrison Keillor at the time. I love that simple story that ends on a grace note and you go, 'Wow, I'm just happy to be alive right now.' That was the feeling I was chasing.
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I write 'by the seat of my pants.' I love to do research. I am inspired by contemporary writers and contemporary events. I live in the real world.
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I write in the studio.
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All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.
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'Places to Go' is something that I would never normally write because I would usually be worried with what people would think about me.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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She lives the poetry she cannot write.
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My grandmother died in childbirth, and my great-aunt lived with us. She had bound feet. She never knew how to read or write.
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If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't say it.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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I really hate to write.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
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When I write, I tend toward melancholy, and the few times that I've tried pure joy in music, it doesn't really work that well. The joy can be through catharsis. I think that's what I do well, and observation.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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I've heard Stephen King say that when you write a novel you end up revealing everything about yourself.
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Not everyone can say, 'I'm going to write a classic today.' If that was the case, we'd all be doing it.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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In my case, I write in the past because I'm not really part of the present. I have nothing valid to say about anything current, though I have something to say about what existed then.
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I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
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I must never write when I do not want to write.
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Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is a symbol for Palestine. But I write as a poet, and my mother is my mother. She's not a symbol.
