Write Quotes
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It doesn't have a life of its own. You guys can write about it. But it's been weird.
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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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I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.
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Ultimately, we as a band just write what we write. Some of it's very serious, and even in the serious songs, there's sometimes an angle of levity. I think that's just how we communicate naturally and to shy away from that would be, first of all, boring for me, but also it wouldn't ring true to who I am or the way I relate to people or the way we relate to people as a band or the way we relate to the audience. Humor is a big part of it, but we also take our craft very seriously.
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The call to write does not respect background or experience.
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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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Don't try to outguess what's going on in publishing, and write what you want to write.
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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.
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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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Write what readers want to read, which isn’t necessarily what you want to write.
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Some people can sit down and write a song, but they can't go on stage like I can.
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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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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 began to write poetry when I was about four years old. In other words, I've always been writing poetry.
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Going on unemployment was a total low point for me, but it was also the point when I promised myself I'd write every day from 9 to 5. I tried to make the most out of every situation that came along.
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Pundits always have something to write about; the novelist just has a blank screen.
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If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul.
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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.
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I lived to write, and wrote to live.
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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.
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I willingly trust myself to chance. I let my thoughts wander, I digress, not only sitting at my work, but all day long, all night even. It often happens that a sentence suddenly runs through my head before I go to bed, or when I am unable to sleep, and I get up again and write it down.
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I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.
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I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours.
