Write Quotes
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I wanted to protect the songs. I wanted to make sure I could write freely and not be self-conscious about it.
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Been writing and singing together since we were 15. Hard to put words to how special it is to have Ben on this song with me. And I can’t believe we finally get to share it with everyone!
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Lila is right, one writes not so much to write, one writes to inflict pain on those who wish to inflict pain. The pain of words against the pain of kicks and punches and the instruments of death.
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The only sort of book I care to write about the war is the sort people will read after the war is over — a century after it is over.
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The best way is not to read as much from the media and what they write.
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Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.
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I do not know what I think until I write it.
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The way to praise a poet is to write a poem.
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For me going to war offers me the ability to write about apparently very alien, sometimes hated or despised people, who've been objectified in a way that restores their humanity. Hopefully for my readers, that denies them the ability to objectify them. I think that's the point. If you can do that, that's a good thing.
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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 write because I don't know how to ask my questions any other way. es
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If writing is your passion, write and don't let anyone else convince you otherwise. You don't need to quit your day job to do it. Create a realistic schedule and stick with it.
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I didn't write 'Enter Sandman.'
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When I write love songs, people think they're really soppy - but I see love as a consolation for the boredom of life.
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Sometimes you have to play it a couple of times sometimes to really hear it. Even for me because I write my style of writing is very stream of conscious. So it's hard sometimes to explain my work because it's not really linear to anything ...
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If I write a new play, my point of view may be profoundly modified. I may be obliged to contradict myself and I may no longer know whether I still think what I think.
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You write in songs what you're too scared to write in real life, and then you sing the songs to loads of people instead of telling it to the person you should be telling it to... Songs are a great way of dealing with those issues but kind of a coward's way as well.
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Let me tell you what, reality is better than any script you could ever write.
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Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.
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My freestyling ability is nonexistent. I can't even write a verse if I tried to sit anywhere and write one. Being a good rapper is hard to do. I'm a good Rapaport, but that's about it.
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Furiously and gorgeously write your ass off.
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I thought Cheever was magnificent and that if I could write like him that would be the best I could do. And then I realized that what I really wanted to write had nothing to do with what he was doing.
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I start with the joke line and write backward.
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If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
