Write Quotes
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My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.
Sara Zarr -
I mean somebody could write another book and say Brad's idea about Buddhism and sex is wrong, and here's mine, and that would be great. Just the fact that it would exist would be good because nobody is saying it, it's like they're trying to pretend it's not there.
Brad Warner
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I'm not trying to write for the masses. I don't care.
Cass McCombs -
Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
Henrik Ibsen -
In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.
Catherine the Great -
I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.
Evan Dando -
I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound.
William Lashner -
I love poetry, but I find it so difficult to write well.
Emily Susan Rapp
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Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.
Norman MacCaig -
When I write, I can be heard. And known. But nobody has to look at me. Nobody has to see me at all.
Nora Raleigh Baskin -
You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.
George Bernard Shaw -
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.
Anne Reeve Aldrich -
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.
Marcel Proust -
You write a thing down because you're hoping to get a hold on it.
Sigrid Nunez
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I don't have a journal; I write music.
Michael J. Willett -
I can't write every day. I have to skip a day in between. If I try to do it every day, nothing comes.
William Sleator -
The way to praise a poet is to write a poem.
Paul Engle -
As a producer you can be more objective about the songs because you didn't write them.
Eric Bachmann -
Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the world and hope that some day they'll send back money.
Edna Buchanan -
I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words.
Cass McCombs
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I wanted to write poetry almost a little more than I wanted to eat.
Paul Engle -
Only a woman can write what it is to feel as a woman, to be a woman.
Simone de Beauvoir -
Still photographs are the most powerful weapons in the world. Words and pictures have a continuing struggle for primacy. In my mind, a person can write the best story in the world; but a photograph is absolute.
Eddie Adams -
I think about my editor when I write. She's a good friend, too.
Jostein Gaarder