Write Quotes
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It's a funny habit to write encyclopedia entries. It's not a mass taste.
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When I read good stories, I want to write good stories 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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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.
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I think about my editor when I write. She's a good friend, too.
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I think the cardinal rule of learning to write is learning to read first. I learned to write by learning to read.
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Every time I lock my people in a spacecraft or land them on an asteroid, the blood wells up again, and I'm writing horror. Horror's my default setting. It's also where I prefer to write.
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Pundits always have something to write about; the novelist just has a blank screen.
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I myself have never called what I write anti-poetry. I also think that my poetry should not be only known as the poetry of Ernesto Cardenal but rather as Nicaraguan poetry.
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At most, I may write when I am disturbed by something. I have recently discovered the pleasure of finding written answers to written questions.
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We write stories about common people and common things. That's what Skynyrd always is about - the real working class of America.
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People are born with the knack to write poems and songs. I'm not a poet at all.
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My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings writing in my diary, eating everything in the kitchen and waiting for Mr. Wrong to call.
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I produce more movies than I write, but when I write, it is such an immersive, intense process that it probably takes as much or more time than producing multiple movies.
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If we don't risk it all, we may as well not write at all.
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To attempt to write about Dun Aengus and bring some sort of freshness to it is rather like trying to perform a similar service for Stonehenge: so many people have attempted it before that one is tempted to give up what one is looking at is not only one of the wonders of Ireland, but of the entire Western world.
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You cannot write well without data.
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Language is the currency of consciousness. We speak to fill the void. We write it down to remember.
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I can only describe it as: the whole experience was imprinted on my body. And when I started to write it, it just came from such a very, In The Body of the Worldvery physical... it just came from my body. I don't know how to explain it better than that. I guess my head was transmitting it. It was a very, very physical experience writing this book.
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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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Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of a mind, universal literacy has given him rubber stamps, rubber stamps inked with advertising slogans, with editorials, with published scientific data, with the trivialities of the tabloids and the platitudes of history, but quite innocent of original thought.
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I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours.
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I just like writing lyrics. I find a little satisfaction in performing live, making records. But primarily, I just try to write every day.
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Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?
