Write Quotes
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Those who write need that "willing suspension of disbelief ", as Coleridge called it.
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I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.
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I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.
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I would say, number one, don't worry about getting published. Just write. Number two, just write. Three is make sure you read.
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There are skills you pick up on in a clinical environment in terms of how to ask questions, what to look for, how to listen that serve one well when trying to write.
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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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I try to write about realistic people doing realistic things. Or as close as I can get, given that I'm trying to write a suspenseful crime novel.
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All of it made me think about this book I want to write. It's about greed.
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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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I wasn't the classic comedy type; I wasn't bullied or extrovert. I was more the ambitious literary one who wanted to write clever little plays.
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I began to write poetry in high school, and would ride miles over sandy roads in the fine hills around Cedar Rapids, repeating the lines over and over until I had them right, making some of the rhythm of the horse help.
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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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The way I write is that, every time I reintroduced a character, I'd have to face some kind of inner demon.
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May I point out something? You always use true and truthfully, when you speak and when you write. Or you say: unexpectedly. But when do people ever speak truthfully and when do things ever happen unexpectedly? You know better than I that it’s all a fraud and that one thing follows another and then another. I don’t do anything truthfully anymore, Lenù. And I’ve learned to pay attention to things. Only idiots believe that they happen unexpectedly.
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Being a bad writer a thousand times first.
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I never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write.
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I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.
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It was a good chance for me to write lyrics that I was going to sing, I’ve always written lyrics for other people to sing. I thought. I’m going to write an album here, but i’m not going to write stuff that other people are gonna sing, because that would be pointless.
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Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story.
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We all have a lot of people inside us, yet we get to live only one life. Fiction lets us slip into someone else’s skin, so to speak. That’s why we read novels, and also why we write them - to experience more life, through imagination.
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Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?
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I just write whenever I can.
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I grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected. And all of my friends were good girls too, and my boyfriends were good boys. Everybody was pretty nice. And that affects how I write my characters. There aren't very many bad guys in my novels.
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If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing.
