Write Quotes
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I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.
Zach Braff -
I write in the most classical French because this form is necessary for my novels: to translate the murky, floating, unsettling atmosphere I wanted them to have, I had to discipline it into the clearest, most traditional language possible.
Patrick Modiano
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When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.
Paloma Faith -
Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.
George Bernard Shaw -
Sometimes I feel as if I am read before I write. When I write a poem about my mother, Palestinians think my mother is a symbol for Palestine. But I write as a poet, and my mother is my mother. She's not a symbol.
Mahmoud Darwish -
I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
W. P. Kinsella -
I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.
Taylor Swift -
I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
Carlene Carter
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'Jurassic Park' and 'Star Wars' shoved me into loving sci-fi and film in general when I was a barely coherent 3-year-old. And 'Lord of the Rings' took me to another planet entirely. Before that series, I knew I loved writing, but after, I knew that I had to write.
Victoria Aveyard -
I don't write books inadvertently.
A. N. Wilson -
If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
Patrick Ness -
The sad part about happy endings is there's nothing to write about.
Tammy Wynette -
Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time; we must restrain ourselves, when it becomes urgent; we must draw the bolt on the appetite, play a fantasia on the violin, then break the strings with our own hand. The Wise man is he who knows when and how to stop.
Victor Hugo -
I finished 'America America,' and I knew I had to write another book, not just for personal reasons but because I had a contract.
Ethan Canin
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I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
Beck -
All the stories I write come from someone I've met or some anecdote I've heard.
Edith Pearlman -
My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate.
Victor Cruz -
I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?'
Tate Taylor -
Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
Zadie Smith -
I would still give my left ball to write anything as good as OK Computer.
Chris Martin Coldplay
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When I was 14, I would sit up in my room and write till my eyes would bleed.
Quincy Jones -
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
Thomas Hobbes -
I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
Laura Mvula -
Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.
J. R. R. Tolkien