Write Quotes
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I don't really like to write at a desk. I like to write when driving in a car. ... Once you're working on it, you're working on it all the time, and sometimes stuff'll come in the middle of the night, in a dream or something. Your mind is working on it all the time.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel -
Live a life worth reading about. Then write it.
Chris Campanioni
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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
Albert Camus -
More than periods where I don't write anything, I have periods where I just write junk and I know I'm writing junk but I can't stop.
Jonathan Dee -
To write it down was to put the finishing touch on any event, see what it was, what it meant, what it stood for. To put anything into words was like pouring melted wax on top of cold glasses of jelly, to harden there and preserve and keep what was underneath like new.
Ardyth Kennelly -
I write to be recorder, observer, participant, and sometimes, even judge. I want to engage the world as I see it with my whole self - all of those different aspects of it.
Allison Joseph -
We write stories about common people and common things. That's what Skynyrd always is about - the real working class of America.
Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd -
Knowing what I'll write about and what I won't has never really been a problem. I won't write about things that bore me.
Ree Drummond
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I didnt write Snow White for any class, but I got bitten by the screenwriting bug and wrote a couple of scripts in my spare time instead of going to keg parties or something.
Evan Daugherty -
I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours.
Nicholas Sparks -
I don't write fantasy, I write reality. Also, my novels have roots to Greek tragedies and as such, there has to be tragedy.
Nicholas Sparks -
For some musicians it becomes self-reflexive to think, "I have to write some of my kind of songs now."
Alan Licht -
It's hard for me to speak, whether in English or Afrikaans. The reason I write is because I cannot speak. I feel blunt.
Antjie Krog -
You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.
Sarah Orne Jewett
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Provide me with ink and paper and I will write.
Edmund Campion -
I only write when I feel the inspiration. Fortunately, inspiration strikes at 10:00 o'clock every day.
William Faulkner -
Writing is rewriting. A writer writes. And be fearless. Some people are going to hate what you write. It’s going to make some of them mad. In the end, you have to write for yourself.
Ken Levine -
I write about what I know – the places I’ve worked, the situations I’ve found myself in.
Andy McNab -
I want to gather up all the words in the world and write them down on little pieces of paper—then throw them in the air. They would look like tiny sparrows flying toward the sun. Without all those words, the sky would be clear and perfect and blue. The deafening world would be beautiful in all that silence.
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.
William Faulkner
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Any story that I write or tell is rooted in personal truths in some fashion or another, so they’re all very personal to me.
Josh Stewart -
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.
Bindu -
Happy music that is genuinely joyful is probably the hardest music to write. I think miserable stuff is more natural to the human condition and maybe more cathartic.
Peter Gabriel Genesis -
I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.
Paul Haggis