Write Quotes
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I was born in New Orleans, but I grew up in Hawaii. That was a paradise. That's a paradise I keep inside of me all the time. It's funny, I don't really write too much in poetry about Hawaii, but I published a book of stories a couple of years ago.
Barbara Hamby -
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
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My works are all expressly my own - pleasingly peculiar, not a borrowed stroke in one of them. I write as I feel and as I don't feel.
Amanda McKittrick Ros -
I believe it's impossible to write good poetry without reading. Reading poetry goes straight to my psyche and makes me want to write. I meet the muse in the poems of others and invite her to my poems. I see over and over again, in different ways, what is possible, how the perimeters of poetry are expanding and making way for new forms.
Denise Duhamel -
Always write from your gut, no matter what the project is.
Paul Haggis -
I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It's a parallel thing in me.
Haruki Murakami -
If we can write or sing or create in some way, even when we are dealing with difficulties or pain, then it becomes something bigger than ourselves — and often beautiful.
Brenda Peterson -
The idea that historians write the definitive version of something that will last for all time is less current than it used to be.
Norman Davies
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Revision plays a very large role in writing. Sometimes it seems to be all revision. And the longer I write, the more I revise-until it is completely right.
Ellen Hunnicutt -
I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
Alan Bennett -
I love to write the weird and creepy stuff!
Beth Revis -
It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don't know me.
Mariah Carey -
There is a part of me that has to depend on fantasy, because if you can't be somewhat of a fantasy person, then you can't write.
Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac -
I want to write something that makes it easy for young people to look right into the abyss.
Dave Mustaine Metallica
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I write when I can. I have no set writing practices, or times, or methods. I write when I'm not doing other things - in the odd times when I'm traveling, or in hotels, or when I get time to be alone with my thoughts.
Allison Joseph -
And not only did this great consolidated ecclesiasticism assume to lord it over men's earthly treasures, but they lorded it over men's minds, prescribing what men should think and read and write.
George W Truett -
I like to write about the things I care about. It's no fun to sing about things you don't like.
Estelle -
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.
Nuno Bettencourt -
We join God’s story and allow him to write our stories by engaging in his mission to the world as his image bearers and commissioned representatives.
Andreas J. Kostenberger -
I have a really, really difficult time with dramaturgy sometimes in America, because I write about other cultures. I write about a culture that is very difficult, it is very foreign to a North American. A lot of people don't know about what's happening.
Nilo Cruz
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Well, I have to write. A lot of people forget that. They think I’m sort of crazy baffoon who can’t make up his mind what to do in life.
George Plimpton -
I actually write some pretty tough jokes. I don't want to push the "soft" angle too much.
Allison Silverman -
I would say, number one, don't worry about getting published. Just write. Number two, just write. Three is make sure you read.
Uzodinma Iweala -
There are people all over the world who like to write fan letters in the voice of their pet: 'Hello, my name is Fifi and I'm a labrador and I think you're great. Paw paw!'
Rebecca Hall