Write Quotes
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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
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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.
Denise Duhamel
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Well, I have to write. A lot of people forget that. They think I’m sort of crazy baffoon who can’t make up his mind what to do in life.
George Plimpton
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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.
Cass McCombs
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I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.
Paul Haggis
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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.
Simon Kinberg
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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.
Kathryn Hughes
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Don't try to outguess what's going on in publishing, and write what you want to write.
George Singleton
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The only successful way to write, and the only one I have found, is to be the character. Give up on trying to control them. Writers always talk about hearing voices. That's what they mean.
Ethan Canin
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I write for young girls of color, for girls who don’t even exist yet, so that there is something there for them when they arrive. I can only change how they live, not how they think.
Ntozake Shange
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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.
Charlize Theron
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I don’t write poetry when I wish, I write when I can’t, when my larynx is flooded and my throat is shut.
Anna Kamienska
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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.
Marcel Proust
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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.
Elise Valmorbida
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If we don't risk it all, we may as well not write at all.
Anne Stuart
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You talk to people and they seem really nice and then you read what they write and it's very disillusioning. You have to deal with how people let you down in terms of that. Because I think I'm basically a nice person and I think I'm a real person, and a lot of people aren't.
Mariah Carey
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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.
Edward Bernays
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Revision plays a very large role in writing. Sometimes it seems to be all revision. And the longer I write, the more I revise-until it is completely right.
Ellen Hunnicutt
