Write Quotes
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I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.
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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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I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.
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It's difficult to write anything at the moment, as every week there's a seismic shift in world events.
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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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You remember how you were taught to write. Your mother put a pencil in your hand, took your hand in hers, and began to move it. Since you did not know at all what she meant to do, you left your hand completely free in hers. This is like the power of God in our lives.
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I could compose and write music and get to share it with the masses and the people around the world and to have them to receive it so beautifully - I love that.
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I write songs in batches and then record them and then can't write again for ages. I try and build one song upon another, they may not obviously look inter-related but often one song acts as a springboard into another.
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You have to be a poet to know how to write a song with lyrics.
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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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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 began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.
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If we don't risk it all, we may as well not write at all.
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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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I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.
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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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I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.
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You really have to love the song you’re working on so this carries through if it takes a few weeks to get every last detail right. So the key is, write what you like and don’t worry about getting your hands dirty.
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My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.
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It was a good chance for me to write lyrics that I was going to sing, I’ve always written lyrics for other people to sing. I thought. I’m going to write an album here, but i’m not going to write stuff that other people are gonna sing, because that would be pointless.
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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.
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I'd spent five hours that morning trying to write a song that was meaningful and good, and I finally gave up and lay down. Then, "Nowhere Man" came, words and music, the whole damn thing, as I lay down...Song writing is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed. You try to go to sleep, but the song won't let you. So you have to get up and make it into something, and then you're allowed sleep.
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I have a really, really difficult time with dramaturgy sometimes in America, because I write about other cultures. I write about a culture that is very difficult, it is very foreign to a North American. A lot of people don't know about what's happening.
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If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life.
