Write Quotes
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I like to write about the things I care about. It's no fun to sing about things you don't like.
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I had done a couple TV pilots, and a friend of mine wanted to leave comics and come work in Hollywood, and I said, "Well, you've got to understand that when you sell a TV pilot, imagine if you turned in the best issue of Batman ever, and DC was like, 'Well we love this, but we can't publish it because we have to publish this other thing by this other person." The odds are really long on getting anything made, so if you come from comics and you're still making a living in comics, that really helps because you're not desperate for someone's permission to write for a living.
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Some writers pick a topic and write around that, but I like to include it all.
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You know what, I just write what I feel.
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I like to write about things that are extreme in some form. I like to write about something I feel I have to write about.
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I write my music to minister to myself. I have enough sin and enough shortcomings and enough need in my own life that I don't need to write to evangelize to the "masses." But if someone else can hear my music and relate to it with the same need that I do, then I give God the glory for that.
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People think that I only write about homosexuality, but that's not true.
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... Simone Weil is a mystery that should keep us all humble, and I need it more than most. Also she's the example of the religious consciousness without a religion which maybe sooner or later I will be able to write about.
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Furiously and gorgeously write your ass off.
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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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I write hate lyrics really well. It's not every day you can use them, really.
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It's hard to know exactly what it sounds like to me. I'm in the studio and I write it. and that's it.
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The way to praise a poet is to write a poem.
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If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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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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We just write down a bunch of words, and pray to god they make sense. And if we don't, it doesn't matter, we're artists.
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You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.
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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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It's hard for me to speak, whether in English or Afrikaans. The reason I write is because I cannot speak. I feel blunt.
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I write because I don't know how to ask my questions any other way. es
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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.
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I don't like to write a script unless I know who the artist is. A lot of people can do it without that, and that's cool, but I like to look at the art.
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If Orwell had a chance to write 1984 from the vantage point of 1984 instead of 1948, perhaps he would have seen the class of hackers instead of the proles as a threat to Big Brother's rule.
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I wasn't as used to the new dumb questions, so when men I had once thought of as wise daddies now asked me 'How do you write?' I did not try and spill red wine in their suede pants. I would just smile and say, 'On a typewriter in the mornings when there's nothing else to do.'
