Write Quotes
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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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There's still plenty of lead in this pencil, but I only write to one person now.
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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.
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I write songs simply because I get a kick out of making them exist. I'm also sort of addicted to the recording studio, and making albums is my idea of fun.
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I can never plan out what direction my poems will take in terms of either form or content. I wish I could but it doesn't work that way for me. If I try to write something, I'd probably end up doing the opposite.
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It sounds shameful, but on my best days I write only about three or four hours.
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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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When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.
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I went into journalism in a grandiose way. I thought maybe I'd do a little journalism whilst I write the great novel of all time you see - one has to keep oneself afloat.
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You write a thing down because you're hoping to get a hold on it.
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Everybody won’t like everything you write. Some people won’t like anything you write. Get over it.
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In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.
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I wasn't aware I'd write the novel when I wrote the New Yorker story either. And the narration of their construction in 10:04 is fiction, however flickering.
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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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If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.
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To attempt to write about Dun Aengus and bring some sort of freshness to it is rather like trying to perform a similar service for Stonehenge: so many people have attempted it before that one is tempted to give up what one is looking at is not only one of the wonders of Ireland, but of the entire Western world.
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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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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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I don't write about myself. I'm never in my books.
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Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
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I should write a book. I've always wanted to write a book. I should write a book about kids who see dead people.
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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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It's much more important to write than to be written about.
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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.