Write Quotes
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I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
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Madeleine Albright introduced herself to me. I talked to Henry Kissinger and Barbara Walters. And I asked Peter Jennings to write a note of encouragement to my son, Logan, a news anchor at the ABC affiliate in Palm Springs.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
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What I write, I write. I'll always do it in some form.
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
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I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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Not everyone can say, 'I'm going to write a classic today.' If that was the case, we'd all be doing it.
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To write, you need to find what you love.
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
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I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.
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A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a song about it.
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I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs.
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Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.
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Nine months after we submitted the original screenplay for 'The Attack,' the studio that was involved pulled out. I've been told that 'you don't write in a French way; you can't make these multicultural films.'
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People often write after they finish their career, or they don't play anymore, or they are not anymore active. So I say, why do that? And let's do it differently.
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Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse.
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'Jurassic Park' and 'Star Wars' shoved me into loving sci-fi and film in general when I was a barely coherent 3-year-old. And 'Lord of the Rings' took me to another planet entirely. Before that series, I knew I loved writing, but after, I knew that I had to write.
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I came across humanity in Istanbul, and all I know about life comes from Istanbul, and definitely, I am writing about Istanbul. I also love the city because I live there, it has formed me, and it's me. Of course it is natural. If somebody lived all his life in Delhi, he will write about Delhi.
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I write novels and other things.
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When you research prolific songwriters, it is usually later in their career they write songs that they distance themselves from, or it's about other people.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
