Write Quotes
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No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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If you write something down on paper, it becomes an actual goal. Before you write it down, it's a thought, a dream that may or may not get done.
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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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We write about things that we've done or things that have happened to people around us.
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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 realized that you have to deal with a lot of baggage when you write about your own era, that it's harder to separate what is actually compelling from what is interesting simply because it mattered to you at the time.
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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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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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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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Never write a letter while you are angry.
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The real task was to write songs that were believably bad. It was one of the best jobs I've ever had in
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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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I do not write for an audience.
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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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Any play is hard to write, and plays are getting harder and harder to get on the stage.
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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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Poetry allows me to write about what I don't know, whereas journalism demands a higher level of certainty to be worthy of being written.
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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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I didn't want to write a book. They made me do it.
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...I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it again.
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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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If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
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I think I'm enjoying writing for me.I know what's in my head, so there's a little less margin for error, but I think I really would like to write for an artist, and obviously it really depends on the artist, and the sort of story I would do.
