Write Quotes
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I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.
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The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.
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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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My darlings, if I can't write dark, epic music, I can't live!
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"You write something in advance of when it happens or when it’s pertinent. I always say it’s like a postcard from the future."
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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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When I take up my pen to write, I feel the strength of standing up and refusing to be silent. In an oppressive situation, silence is death.
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She wanted to write about something other then love. Yet her freethinking pen seemed more adhered to her heart then to her head. A battle she never felt worth fighting.
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And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about.
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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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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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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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Don't waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
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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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We've never been very good at servicing fans. I'm here to concentrate on music, not to be a pen pal to people who write to me.
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Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves.
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Bukharin's a swine and surely worse than a swine because he thinks it below his dignity to write a couple of lines.
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When I write love songs, people think they're really soppy - but I see love as a consolation for the boredom of life.
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I cannot get him to write or speak in real, solid earnest. I don't much mind it now, but if it be always so, what shall I do with the serious part of myself?
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I write my music to minister to myself. I have enough sin and enough shortcomings and enough need in my own life that I don't need to write to evangelize to the "masses." But if someone else can hear my music and relate to it with the same need that I do, then I give God the glory for that.
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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.
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It is almost impossible to write fiction about the Mormons, for the reason that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar that they call for constant explanation.
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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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The world is full of paper, write to me.
