Write Quotes
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When I write a movie, I write it for me.
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I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language.
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Not everyone can say, 'I'm going to write a classic today.' If that was the case, we'd all be doing it.
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I must never write when I do not want to write.
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I love to write.
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I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
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When I write, I tend toward melancholy, and the few times that I've tried pure joy in music, it doesn't really work that well. The joy can be through catharsis. I think that's what I do well, and observation.
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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I don't write books inadvertently.
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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.
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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.
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My mom was dying for me to write a book, she was my biggest advocate.
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I will always, forever, write songs, and wherever they're meant to be is where they'll be.
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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.
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I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.
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Do not write if there is no tremendous urge to do so. At the heart, there must be an inspiration or muse or one of those old-fashioned things. Else, why bore yourself, destroy other people's interest and kill trees?
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I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
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The sad part about happy endings is there's nothing to write about.
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I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.
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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.
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Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.
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I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
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It would be fun to write with Adele, actually. She seems like a fun girl to write with.
