Write Quotes
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I write about things, recent experiences, people around me, some not so affectionately. I’d like to think I’m a little past writing about beer and chicks - unless it’s about my wife, who is a cool chick.
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I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger than I am.
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I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa; unless of course the pictorial magazines and comic strips finally atrophy man's capacity to read, and literature really is on its way back to the picture writing in the Neanderthal cave.
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A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke.
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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.
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It's much more important to write than to be written about.
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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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Knowing what I'll write about and what I won't has never really been a problem. I won't write about things that bore me.
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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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I wanted to be a film student again, as a man in my 60s. To go someplace alone and see what you can cook up, with non-existent budgets. I didn’t want to be surrounded by comforts and colleagues, which you have when you’re a big time director. I wanted to write personal works.
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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 do write fiction, and I find it more difficult, but also more liberating. On the one hand, you can make up the story, but you have to make up the story.
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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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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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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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If you wanna write a song, ask a guitar
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I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what I know.
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I have so many books to write now. So I'll write from home. Sometimes I'm writing in the office too, in my cubicle. It looks like a mess. It doesn't look like anybody uses the spot.
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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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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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People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.
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It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
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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.
