Write Quotes
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Don't try to outguess what's going on in publishing, and write what you want to write.
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No one ever comitted suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.
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I meant to write a song of battle, for storied deeds of war inspire; I seemed to hear the cannon thunder, I seemed to see the smoke and fire. But oh, the pathos of the ending when brave men conquered in the fight, knelt, kissing yielded blood-stained colors!--my eyes are blurred, I cannot write.
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I had to educate him that there was no such thing as writer's block, that writers write when they write, and when they don't, they don't.
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Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.
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Always write from your gut, no matter what the project is.
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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.
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Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?
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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.
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I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.
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If we don't risk it all, we may as well not write at all.
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The call to write does not respect background or experience.
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You have to be a poet to know how to write a song with lyrics.
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I think about my editor when I write. She's a good friend, too.
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I write songs simply because I get a kick out of making them exist. I'm also sort of addicted to the recording studio, and making albums is my idea of fun.
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Everybody struggles with get tiring as a musician having to play the same songs over and over again on one level or another. That is why you're cast to write the best songs you can. It keeps it going for you. My old man used to tell me be careful what you write you might have to play it for the rest of your life. That is always a challenge and the best way to remedy it is to write.
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When I moved to Beijing in 2005 to write, I was accustomed to hearing the story of China's transformation told in vast, sweeping strokes - involving one fifth of humanity and great pivots of politics and economics.
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With our fans, a lot of times, people get upset because maybe they didn't get what they wanted, whatever. But we always write the songs for us, number one.
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I lived to write, and wrote to live.
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I try and picture you reading this -- there is a sense that as I write I try and get nearer to you, connect in my mind with you.
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Everyone has a set of presuppositions: what gender is, what it's not. And they may not write them out or they may not be in theoretical books published by Routledge, but they have a theory.
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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.
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I can write three novels in the time it takes to write one novella. I'm probably not going to go with that form again.
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To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
