Write Quotes
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If people can write to each other across space, why can they not write across time too?
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The men who make history have not time to write it.
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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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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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Never write a letter while you are angry.
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Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.
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When I write legally, I try to write very plain, very vanilla, very clear.
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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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It's hard to write any good song. It seems more rewarding, or maybe just easier, to write sad ones.
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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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You know what, I just write what I feel.
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In autumn, when the leaves are brown, Take pen and ink, and write it down.
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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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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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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 just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?
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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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The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets.
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... Simone Weil is a mystery that should keep us all humble, and I need it more than most. Also she's the example of the religious consciousness without a religion which maybe sooner or later I will be able to write about.
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Eh, it's not that attractive to have a plan. I know that if I ever feel that I need to make a funny movie, I’ll figure out how to write one. I’ll get it done. If I ever get some ambition, I’m gonna get some shit done.
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They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.
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I think the complaint that I hear most often from kids, even kids who like to write is that don't know what to write about. A journal is a great source of story starters.
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When I write the music for any of my songs, I write as a composer-lyricist in my head.
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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.
