Write Quotes
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Write what readers want to read, which isn’t necessarily what you want to write.
Nicholas Sparks
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I wasn't the classic comedy type; I wasn't bullied or extrovert. I was more the ambitious literary one who wanted to write clever little plays.
Stewart Lee
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Those who write clearly have readers.
Albert Camus
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It's a funny habit to write encyclopedia entries. It's not a mass taste.
Sue Gardner
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When I'm trying to write a song for someone else, you can only see anything through your own eyes.
Cass McCombs
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He taught me everything I know. Every note I write I learned from that man upstairs. People rave over my arranging today, and I just think to myself, God bless Tommy Dorsey. If it hadn't been for him, I never could have done it.
Nelson Riddle
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If we don't risk it all, we may as well not write at all.
Anne Stuart
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All that he has to do is to write and publish a very little book. Its title should be simple -- a few plain words -- My Heart Laid Bare. But -- this little book must be true to its title.
Edgar Allan Poe
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You have to be a poet to know how to write a song with lyrics.
Petra Haden
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Some people can sit down and write a song, but they can't go on stage like I can.
Sharon Jones
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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.
Judith Butler
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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.
James Jackson Toth
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When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.
Sharon Creech
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Don't leave you to go find your point of view and your story. You are all you have been given . . . this is who you are, and from where you ought and need to write.
Bret Lott
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My favorite music to sing would be my own songs, my original songs, just because I know them, you know I write the tunes, so my favorite songs are the newest ones that I write. That's what I like to sing the most, because it means something, it's real, it comes from me.
Paul McDonald
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Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?
Evan Dando
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I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.
Celia Green
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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.
Crosby Loggins
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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.
Elise Valmorbida
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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.
Robert Trujillo Metallica
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O white-robed Angel, guide my timorous hand to write as on a lofty rock with iron pen the words of truth, that all who pass may read.
William Blake
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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
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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
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You cannot write well without data.
George V. Higgins