Write Quotes
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Paul McCartney and I made a deal when we were 15. There was never a legal deal between us, just a deal we made when we decided to write together that we put both our names on it, no matter what.
John Lennon
The Beatles
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We write about things that we've done or things that have happened to people around us.
Johnny Van Zant
Lynyrd Skynyrd
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When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day.
Alberto Moravia
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Best Buy. I heard recently they are downsizing and I got sad! I remember when Circuit City was around, I never understood why people would shop there. I always thought Best Buy had a better selection and cheaper prices.
Kerry King
Slayer
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If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. As to that regular, uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain.
Lord Byron
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I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.
Robert Frost
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I write, I sing, I play... I Amazing Race! Broken Bow recording artist... I'm one third of Runaway June
Jennifer Wayne
Runaway June
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I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn't tell anyone.
Celia Johnson
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Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces.
Allegra Goodman
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Only a woman can write what it is to feel as a woman, to be a woman.
Simone de Beauvoir
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In order for me to write, I have to experience life. I write the songs based on real life, and I perform them from a very real place.
Estelle
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You know that in order to copyright material somebody has to write it down for you. Any piece of recorded material has to be scored in order for it to be copyrighted. I've seen the scores of my things and they don't resemble the music in any way. If you give them to somebody who has never heard the music and say, "What does this sound like to you?" they'll play you something that has no relationship with the music it derives from. Notation simply isn't adequate.
Brian Eno
Roxy Music
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To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a writer does not see what he describes-countrysides and figures, movements and gestures-how could he have a style, that is originality?
Remy de Gourmont
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But it is not at all unthinkable for anyone to tell a writer how to write. It comes with the territory.
Ernest Lehman
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All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.
Robert Frost
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What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour: For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper," To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.
Lord Byron
