Write Quotes
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It is my entire visual art practice: I eat, sleep, think, write about and do drawing.
Deanna Petherbridge -
I'm always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to record more than I like to write.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
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I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours.
Nicholas Sparks -
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 hate lyrics really well. It's not every day you can use them, really.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party -
People's relationship to what they want from theatre is changing. People, including me, are still looking for the next STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. And people can't or won't write that anymore.
Austin Pendleton -
Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
Erica Jong -
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.
Joyce Kilmer
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If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
Juan Ramon Jimenez -
If I switch showrunners and I get to stay on the show, I approach it like it's their show, and I'm here to write their music for them.
Bear McCreary -
Read as much as you can. Write only when you feel the inner need to do so. And don’t ever rush into print.
Nick Flynn -
I love the Juno – I haven’t mastered the JP-80 yet but the Juno is so easy to use. I love the arpeggiator. I love the sounds, they’re all the sounds I like to write with.
Isabella Summers Florence and the Machine -
You can't be a writer if you don't write, it's just that simple.
Nicholas Sparks -
Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.
Philip James Bailey
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Most new writers think it's easy to write for children, but it's not. You have to get in a beginning, middle and end, tell a great story, write well, not be condescending-all in a few pages.
Andrea Brown -
I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.
Paul Haggis -
I write about what I know – the places I’ve worked, the situations I’ve found myself in.
Andy McNab -
It's a funny habit to write encyclopedia entries. It's not a mass taste.
Sue Gardner -
If we don't risk it all, we may as well not write at all.
Anne Stuart -
Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.
George Bernard Shaw
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You cannot write well without data.
George V. Higgins -
Golf is a game in which you yell 'fore,' shoot six, and write down five.
Paul Harvey -
Do not wait for a poem; a poem is too fast for you. Do not wait for the poem; run with the poem and then write the poem.
Juan Felipe Herrera -
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
Ezra Pound