Write Quotes
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If we don't risk it all, we may as well not write at all.
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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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No one I know actually reads what I write, so thank heavens for you strangers.
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You really have to love the song you’re working on so this carries through if it takes a few weeks to get every last detail right. So the key is, write what you like and don’t worry about getting your hands dirty.
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You have to be a poet to know how to write a song with lyrics.
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It's hard for me to speak, whether in English or Afrikaans. The reason I write is because I cannot speak. I feel blunt.
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I think being an activist and an artist is an interesting contradiction, because so often they are at odds with one another. When you write as an artist you have to clean the palate of your own politics in creating characters and activism is kind of the exact opposite.
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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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When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.
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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 can only describe it as: the whole experience was imprinted on my body. And when I started to write it, it just came from such a very, In The Body of the Worldvery physical... it just came from my body. I don't know how to explain it better than that. I guess my head was transmitting it. It was a very, very physical experience writing this book.
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People's relationship to what they want from theatre is changing. People, including me, are still looking for the next STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE. And people can't or won't write that anymore.
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I think that if you just write your characters you end up with something that people can access.
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Most people don't know me, that is why they write such things in which most is not true. I cry very very often because it hurts and I worry about the children, all my children all over the world, I live for them.
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If you write a page a day in couple months you have a good chunk of the book and then after a year you have almost a book. It's not that...hard.
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There are moments when you have to write certain things and you don't have to think of your sex. If you are writing about the population of the thirteenth district in Paris, even if you are writing on the women in the thirteenth district, there's no need to consider your sex.
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To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule of grammar.
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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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You cannot write well without data.
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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.
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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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Every time I lock my people in a spacecraft or land them on an asteroid, the blood wells up again, and I'm writing horror. Horror's my default setting. It's also where I prefer to write.
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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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I'm very parasitic, from my own experiences. I just go and mine my dirty laundry, you know, and go through it until I find something that's interesting enough to me to write a song about.
