Write Quotes
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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.
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The similarity between the big directors I've worked with is that they allow the writer to find a way of doing what they want done without saying 'do it this way.' They describe what they want, then letting the writer figure out a way to do it.
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Most people would rather not hear about the environment because it's scary, so my goal was to write something that was readable so that people would learn a lot and not be so depressed that they would throw the book away.
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I don't want to change the way I write my songs, I like the way I write my songs, so I keep 'em the same. I'd like to write more country songs, but other than that, I'm pretty good where I am.
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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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The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.
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I don't play a lot of instruments so when it comes to the song writing process I don't have a lot to do with that. A lot of times it's just acoustic guitar and a small riff that produces a song. Ultimately you want to write a song that people are going to enjoy and that you love to play, most importantly you have to write it for yourself first.
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I just write... if it's really good, it's going on the record. If it's average, it's going in the trash.
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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.
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I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.
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You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that it is accepted. You do not write specifically to a generation.
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And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.
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I've kept journals at many times in my life starting from when I was about 13 or 14. But it's boring and contrived to keep a journal every day. Better to write as the mood strikes.
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My ideal job? Landlord of a bordello! The company's good and the mornings are quiet, which is the best time to write.
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Don't waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
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I come from a place of sincerity. I write about what I see and feel. I write about what I want, I don't have a political agenda. Politics may enter into a song but it always comes from the heart.
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I do not know what I think until I write it.
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I can't really write unless I'm full of inspiration. And even then I can't write unless I have some alone time.
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Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her.
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I wanted to protect the songs. I wanted to make sure I could write freely and not be self-conscious about it.
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My darlings, if I can't write dark, epic music, I can't live!
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I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.
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When you write a great song, it just blows you away. When you write a song that connects with people around the world - I mean like it actually transcends language barriers - you see how it can affect people, and it's quite a tall order to follow up on.
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Some people are very unfulfilled. In consequence they write passionately good romance because they believe that they could still find happiness. Emily Bronte was not a fulfilled woman but the passion she felt went into Wuthering Heights.
