Write Quotes
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You have to live your story before being able to write your story.
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When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.
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I think that if you just write your characters you end up with something that people can access.
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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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When one does a thing, it appears good, otherwise one would not write it. Only later comes reflection, and one discards or accepts the thing. Time is the best censor, and patience a most excellent teacher.
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Being a bad writer a thousand times first.
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I just write songs whenever I feel like it, whenever they come to me.
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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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I would say, number one, don't worry about getting published. Just write. Number two, just write. Three is make sure you read.
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I write in order to comprehend, not to express myself.
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I love poetry, but I find it so difficult to write well.
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I write plays about things that I can't resolve in my mind. I try to root things out.
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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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Young writers reasonably say, 'I don't know what to write about,' so writing about yourself is a very literal way to begin.
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Sit down and write it down with a pen and then make up your mind you are going to do it. Don't spend any time thinking of why you can't. The fun is not in getting it, the fun is in growing. Goals are to help us grow, goals are to help us get. The getting is a site benefit; the growth is the real benefit.
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You write a thing down because you're hoping to get a hold on it.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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I began to write poetry in high school, and would ride miles over sandy roads in the fine hills around Cedar Rapids, repeating the lines over and over until I had them right, making some of the rhythm of the horse help.
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Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.
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When you write in the third person, you get to imagine other people's interiority.
