Write Quotes
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I write because I don't know what I think until I read what I say.
Flannery O'Connor -
I write too much to ever keep everything just for myself.
Laura Pergolizzi
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It took me ten years to write The Night Journal, so that was a big ordeal.
Elizabeth Crook -
I do not know what I think until I write it.
George Bernard Shaw -
You write a play mostly out of yourself. There's a need to get a certain thing down.
Israel Horovitz -
But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just have to keep doing it no matter what anybody says.
William Joyce -
I started to write because of my dream to become a filmmaker. I got to know about a film school in Paris and it was my goal to get there. To do that I knew I had to learn French. In order to practice I started to write journals in French. The effort I made to master what I regarded a bad thing - a language owned by the rich Moroccans - brought me the ability to write.
Abdellah Taia -
O white-robed Angel, guide my timorous hand to write as on a lofty rock with iron pen the words of truth, that all who pass may read.
William Blake
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The best way is not to read as much from the media and what they write.
Alexander Zverev -
If people can write to each other across space, why can they not write across time too?
Ahdaf Soueif -
Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order. At least spare us their morality when we write.
Michel Foucault -
If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for a love relationship is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don't know what will be the end.
Michel Foucault -
I consider it almost antifeminist to say that there is a feminine nature which expresses itself differently, that a woman speaks her body more than a man, because after all, men also speak their bodies when they write. Everything is implicated in the work of a writer.
Simone de Beauvoir -
I hope never to retire. I write so many because it's the thing I like to do most - to write. And if you write every day, you just naturally get a lot of books.
Eve Bunting
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No one I know actually reads what I write, so thank heavens for you strangers.
Sarah Vowell -
When I start to write a song, I initially fall into patterns and creative habits that are familiar, and because they're familiar, they sound convincing. It's important for me to not pursue those ideas, because I've already done them, but to find ideas that are different and feel strange to write and disconcerting to write.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party -
I can still write blues songs because I remember everything.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
It's pretty easy to think of the idea of a story, and maybe even to write a scene or two, but understanding the ebb and flow of a narrative, where to leave the little clues your protagonist (and reader) need, while playing fair, takes a lot more skill and patience than you might think.
Dennis Green -
You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you.
Arthur Plotnik -
I don't know how to write or to be anything other than Bananarama-ish because that's who we are.
Keren Woodward Bananarama
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Take some wood and canvas and nails and things. Build yourself a theater, a stage, light it, learn about it. When you've done that you will probably know how to write a play.
Eugene O'Neill -
Know your literary tradition, savor it, steal from it, but when you sit down to write, forget about worshiping greatness and fetishizing masterpieces.
Allegra Goodman -
If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
Blaise Pascal -
I write about how I was attracted to stripping because I didn't feel comfortable with my body, for instance, but there could be plenty of not-so-good reasons why I chose to go into journalism, too. Maybe someone had a trauma in childhood and it led them to become a nurse, or a lawyer, but because people stigmatize sex work they try to find a traumatic moment in your past and say, "There!"
Craig Seymour