Write Quotes
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The idea that historians write the definitive version of something that will last for all time is less current than it used to be.
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Why do you write?' Because I love words and stories so much. Because I would be grief stricken every day of my life if I couldn't write. Because I'm obsessed and compelled. Because I'd be utterly useless at anything else.
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We all have a lot of people inside us, yet we get to live only one life. Fiction lets us slip into someone else’s skin, so to speak. That’s why we read novels, and also why we write them - to experience more life, through imagination.
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You write a thing down because you're hoping to get a hold on it.
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All I can do is write about whatever grabs me.
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The only reason people write is because they are not wonderful men.
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Golf is a game in which you yell 'fore,' shoot six, and write down five.
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But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.
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To write about history or language is supposed to be within the reach of every man. To write about natural science is allowed to be within the reach only of those who have mastered the subjects on which they write.
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Provide me with ink and paper and I will write.
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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!"
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I'm trying to write stories that are interesting and enjoyable.
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How can you contrive to write so even?
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At the moment of their emancipation, women have a need to write their own histories.
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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.
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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.
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I decided to write Collateral Beauty on my own which made it the first spec script I wrote in 11 years.
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I write too much to ever keep everything just for myself.
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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.
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I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!
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You have to live your story before being able to write your story.
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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.
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You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.
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Language the most forcible proceeds from the man who is most sincere. The way to speak with power, or to write words that pierce mankind to the quick, is to speak and write honestly.
