Write Quotes
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I write what I don't know. It's way more interesting.
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No one can ever write about anything that happened to him after he was twelve years old.
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I write songs from the heart, and I don't hold back.
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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.
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I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life.
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I have a thousand melodies in my head, but I don't write them all down. I write down the jewels. So when I have a jewel I go into the studio. Jewels are hard to find--you have to dig.
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With our first record, we wrote concept songs but not a concept record.
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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.
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You can only write by putting words on a paper one at a time.
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We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out.
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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.
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I can go write an absolutely saccharine pop record with a really catchy lyric for another artist that could become a hit without meaning anything to me, but that's more the science laboratory, that's the other thing.
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I play the piano a lot at home, I write songs on the piano and guitar. I would like to actually play piano on stage... I don't think I'll get the chance for a while.
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You need to write on your own and produce your own life.
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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.
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Nothing flatters me more than to have it assumed that I could write prose, unless it be to have it assumed that I once pitched a baseball with distinction.
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Usually when I write lyrics I try to read a lot and listen to a lot of other stuff. Some of my favourite lyricists are like Lou Reed, kind of the classics - Bob Dylan and stuff like that.
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I'll write anything; I don't want to judge its form.
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It took me ten years to write The Night Journal, so that was a big ordeal.
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I want to write. I have always wanted to write. I do not care it I am not good at it. I just want to try.
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But basically, I'm trying to write a fun story.
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I either write the book or sell the jewels. And I'm kinda sentimental about the jewels.
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Whatever you write about me, don't make it sad.
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Let go of your story so the Universe can write a new one for you.
