Write Quotes
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It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.
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There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. ... The truth is that when an author begins to write for the sake of covering paper, he is cheating the reader; because he writes under the pretext that he has something to say.
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It came naturally to find out what I did best, which was to write songs and sing well.
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We try to write things that can be interpreted on lots of different levels. There's not a right way or a wrong way... people can adventure a little.
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I write, I sing, I play... I Amazing Race! Broken Bow recording artist... I'm one third of Runaway June
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If you’re a person that feels it one day and then doesn’t feel it the next day, then you’ve got to only write on the days that you feel it.
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I decided I'm gonna sing what I want, wear what I want, write what I want, and hope that if it comes from my heart then people will see that it's real and gravitate toward it.
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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.
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We just try to write about things that are close to our hearts. We don't sit around trying to write another 'Free Bird' or 'Sweet Home Alabama.'
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Theirs is an American tragedy in which we all have played a part. It could go on and on, or someone must write "The End" to it. I have concluded that only I can do that. And if I can, I must.
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Never write a letter while you are angry.
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IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle.
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It's hard to write any good song. It seems more rewarding, or maybe just easier, to write sad ones.
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I didn't want to write a book. They made me do it.
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I took William Zinsser's advice that you write to yourself and you hope that there are people out there who are like you.
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I do not write for an audience.
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If I hear a really good song it's like, oh man, I want to write a song that good. But the urge to create mostly comes from nature, weather and I think it just effects me.
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Now write this: 'The greatest rapture of my life was afforded me on a boat in Nassau by Fatima Blush,' and sign it 'James Bond, 007.'
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Poetry does need a bit of ferocity. The only way to attend to the fractured world is to write a ferocious kind of music, to sing that volatility.
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In order to write about the machine you have to know it, to live with it, to love it (or hate it). I think that true writing could be done on industrial subjects by people who work in industry, who are firmly linked with it. But ... and here is the opposite 'but', the technology of literary craftsmanship is itself a very fine and complex matter. Qualified specialists from industry prove themselves dilettantes in the field of literature. The needed synthesis is not yet in sight.
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I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable.
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I want to write stories that are different from the ones I've written so far, Junpei thought: I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love. But right now I have to stay here and keep watch over this woman and this girl. I will never let anyone-not anyone-try to put them into that crazy box- not even if the sky should fall or the earth crack open with a roar.
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We write about things that we've done or things that have happened to people around us.
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If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
