Write Quotes
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Read as much as you can. Write only when you feel the inner need to do so. And don’t ever rush into print.
Nick Flynn
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When I'm trying to write a song for someone else, you can only see anything through your own eyes.
Cass McCombs
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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.
Steve Buscemi
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I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.
Celia Green
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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.
Eve Golden
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Our historical bequest is sublime. I have inherited a fragmented but highly creative exile and, since 1948, a home. I don't know that I want to settle there. I prefer the creative spur of exile. () But wherever I am I shall be Jewish, and that sound will inform every syllable I write. I am blessed with a long ancestry of wisdom, prophecy, and promise, a line of overwhelming creative achievements, courage, humor, and, above all, a dogged and chronic permanence, the greatest legacy of all.
Bernice Rubens
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It's difficult to write anything at the moment, as every week there's a seismic shift in world events.
Stewart Lee
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I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours.
Nicholas Sparks
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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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The dragons I would write about would not be the rather generalized, big, green things that I had read about in storybooks. What I wanted to create was a multiplicity of different dragon species, of all shapes and sizes, adapted to their environment and habitats in the same way as birds or other animals we see today.
Cressida Cowell
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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.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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
