Write Quotes
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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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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.
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If my life has got a book, I will write a word 'Super Junior' the biggest in it.
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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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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.
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The men who make history have not time to write it.
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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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You start to compete with yourself when your catalog gets bigger and bigger... I mean, everybody wants the next 'Bless the Broken Road,' but you don't write those every day, so it's difficult.
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I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.
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If you're still watching, write in and we'll send you a fiver each.
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He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.
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My identity is based around being a writer. I can't not write. It's a compulsion.
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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.
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If summer was a book then I was going to write something beautiful in it. In my own handwriting. But I had no idea what to write.
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Whether or not you write well, write bravely.
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Sometimes things you write are messages to yourself. Even though I think my stuff has a particular voice because you are who you are, it's good to switch it up, professionally and personally. The dare to be great situation is always going to be the one that matters the most.
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When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and is it is cool and you come to your work and warm as you write. You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit again.
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I used to worry I was entirely uninteresting, but the truth is I think if my life was more exciting I'd never have any time to write.
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I'm really open to just about anything but I think the real dream is to be able to write my own thing.
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When thousands of people discover that their story is also someone else's story, they have the chance to write a new story together.
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I think everything I do has Howard Roark [hero of The Fountainhead] in it, you know, as much as anything. The person I write for is Howard Roark.
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All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas.
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I could never write my memoirs, just because too many people are still alive and would be hurt.
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Read as much as possible, especially the work of writers who most deeply affect you. Make those writers your family. Never wait for inspiration to strike before getting to work; be disciplined and form the habit of writing every day.
