Write Quotes
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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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Write, if you must; not otherwise. Do not write, if you can earn a fair living at teaching or dressmaking, at electricity or hod-carrying. Make shoes, weed cabbages, survey land, keep house, make ice-cream, sell cake, climb a telephone pole. Nay, be a lightning-rod peddler or a book agent, before you set your heart upon it that you shall write for a living.... Living? It is more likely to be dying by your pen; despairing by your pen; burying hope and heart and youth and courage in your ink-stand.
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Greta, Greta, he whispered, eyes shut in rapture, on thy breast I write my Edda, at thy feet I lay the keys of Niflheim, by thy leave alone, I live, and breathe, and die.
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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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My mother had always taught me to write about my feelings instead of sharing really personal things with others, so I spent many evenings writing in my diary, eating everything in the kitchen and waiting for Mr. Wrong to call.
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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 think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what I know.
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You write a thing down because you're hoping to get a hold on it.
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We join God’s story and allow him to write our stories by engaging in his mission to the world as his image bearers and commissioned representatives.
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Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.
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Any story that I write or tell is rooted in personal truths in some fashion or another, so they’re all very personal to me.
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It is my entire visual art practice: I eat, sleep, think, write about and do drawing.
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When I write, I can be heard. And known. But nobody has to look at me. Nobody has to see me at all.
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Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.
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There's still plenty of lead in this pencil, but I only write to one person now.
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When people cannot write good literature it is perhaps natural that they should lay down rules how good literature should be written.
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Knowing what I'll write about and what I won't has never really been a problem. I won't write about things that bore me.
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I'm always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to record more than I like to write.
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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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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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When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.
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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
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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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Everybody won’t like everything you write. Some people won’t like anything you write. Get over it.
