Write Quotes
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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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At most, I may write when I am disturbed by something. I have recently discovered the pleasure of finding written answers to written questions.
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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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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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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'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.
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I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.
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When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.
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You cannot write well without data.
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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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No one I know actually reads what I write, so thank heavens for you strangers.
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It's hard for me to write about anything personal because I get way too personal.
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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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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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I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you.
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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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Writers often write their best when they are feeling their worst.
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My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.
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Wow. Did I just write that? I didn't want who I am to come between us? How could I not have seen that?
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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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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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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.
