Write Quotes
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I never took any writing classes or planned to write. But I was working as an advertising copywriter in the late '80s and thought, 'What a shame there has never been a decent book on Jean Harlow,' then thought, 'Why don't I write one myself?' being kind of an idiot and not having the slightest idea what I was getting myself into.
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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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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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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.
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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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Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?
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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 think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books that are packaged to become films.
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Women do not always have to write about women, or gay men about gay men. Indeed, something good and new might happen if they did not.
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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 do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you.
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Recognize how truly blessed you are. Take time to count your blessings and write them down. To make your dreams come true you must already be soaking in the very presence you wish to create.
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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.
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I'm just going to keep trying to write music for me because that's what got me here.
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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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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.
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Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?
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I think about my editor when I write. She's a good friend, too.
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I love you now as I write this, and I love you now as you read this.
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I find it very hard to write about Jewish history.
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It is my entire visual art practice: I eat, sleep, think, write about and do drawing.
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Live a life worth reading about. Then write it.
