Write Quotes
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To write about business one should be in business, just as in writing about Tasmania one should visit Tasmania.
James Cook
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You can't write any form of fiction unless you enjoy reading it. You must be sincere in your approach. It's no good despising the form. So many people think they could earn some money from writing something for which they have no affection. It won't work. The first thing you have to have is belief.
Charlotte Bingham
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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?
Anne Bronte
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My mirror probes down to the heart. I write words on the forehead and around the corners of the mouth. My human faces are truer than the real ones.
Paul Klee
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In the case of Roadcase Royale, everyone in the band has a lot to offer as a writer and producer.
Nancy Wilson Heart
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To write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard.
Franz Kafka
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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.
Coco J. Ginger
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Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her.
Charles Dickens
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I went on to write my graduate thesis on the "Montgomery Story" comic book itself. It was the first long-form history that was ever written about it. And it's how I found out Martin Luther King actually helped edit "Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story."
Andrew Aydin
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I write on big yellow legal pads - ideas in outline form when I'm doing stand-up and stuff. It's vivid that way. I can't type it into an iPad - I think that would put a filter into the process.
Robin Williams
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I've kept journals at many times in my life starting from when I was about 13 or 14. But it's boring and contrived to keep a journal every day. Better to write as the mood strikes.
Erica Jong
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I come from a place of sincerity. I write about what I see and feel. I write about what I want, I don't have a political agenda. Politics may enter into a song but it always comes from the heart.
Brett Dennen
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I just can't seem to write songs about peace and love. Yeah right, how do you get that?
Siobhan Máire Deirdre Fahey Bananarama
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According to Chekhov," Tamaru said, rising from his chair, "once a gun appears in a story, it has to be fired." "Meaning what?" "Meaning, don't bring unnecessary props into a story. If a pistol appears, it has to be fired at some point. Chekhov liked to write stories that did away with all useless ornamentation.
Haruki Murakami
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It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.
Honore de Balzac
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If I switch showrunners and I get to stay on the show, I approach it like it's their show, and I'm here to write their music for them.
Bear McCreary
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Obviously I find women more interesting than men to write about.
Marge Piercy
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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.
Morten Harket A-ha
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I just write... if it's really good, it's going on the record. If it's average, it's going in the trash.
Tommy Lee Mötley Crüe
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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.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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I write as the birds sing, because I must, and usually from the same source of inspiration.
Gene Stratton-Porter
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If people can write to each other across space, why can they not write across time too?
Ahdaf Soueif
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We always make our records really quickly, and this time we're gonna just slow it all down. Usually we write 12 or 13 songs, and then we just record them and that's it. We'd like to write, like, 40 songs and really spend a lot more time writing than we ever have.
Mike Einziger Incubus
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It was the enchantment of spoken verse that led me to write for children.
William Jay Smith