Write Quotes
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Learning to write . . . is a desperately idiosyncratic, eccentric, single-souled, lifelong quest.
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In the case of Roadcase Royale, everyone in the band has a lot to offer as a writer and producer.
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At the moment of their emancipation, women have a need to write their own histories.
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I know just playing live for us in general gives us motivation to do the kind of songs we want to write and even more focused on wanting to have it translate better live than songs we’ve written in the past.
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In a way I never did with George W. Bush or Barack Obama or Bill Clinton, I will write about the actions of the Trump presidency with the working assumption that our nation must be protected both by and from the president.
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We write. How fortunate we are: The world does not close in on us. The world does not grow smaller.
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I was seized with a strong desire to write poetry, so strong, in fact, that in imagination I thought I heard a voice crying in my ears – "Write! Write". I wondered what could be the matter with me, and I began to walk backwards and forwards in a great fit of excitement, saying to myself– "I know nothing about poetry."
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I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road.
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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.
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Everywhere I go - from villages outside Kandy, Sri Lanka, to community centers in Amman, Jordan, to offices at the State Department in Washington, D.C. - I find people with a similar story. 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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I don't know how to write or to be anything other than Bananarama-ish because that's who we are.
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You know what's weird, I just write to write, with no intention, I just write.
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If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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There are no laws by which we can write Iliads.
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You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what's burning inside you.
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If I'm feeling confident, then I write confident, happy, or assured music. I can hear some early electronic sketches I did where I'm clearly not confident and everything's a bit mid-range, nothing really pushes through.
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I have to write the songs before I become too enamored with my own melodies.
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You can't be a writer if you don't write, it's just that simple.
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I just want to write books or give talks which, if I were in the audience or I were the reader, I would appreciate.
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To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a writer does not see what he describes-countrysides and figures, movements and gestures-how could he have a style, that is originality?
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It was the enchantment of spoken verse that led me to write for children.
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When you write a book you're not allowed to wave hands too much, but you don't even have hands to wave—you have to wave pages.
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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.
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I probably write a poem every 50 years.
