Write Quotes
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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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My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.
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If you wanna write a song, ask a guitar
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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.
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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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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 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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When we get together to rehearse, we could write music together all day long - GOOD music.
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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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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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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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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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If you're trying to write about what the Chinese people are talking about, you can sometimes get a distorted picture if you go online and look at the conversation on social media.
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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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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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I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books that are packaged to become films.
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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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I want to write something that makes it easy for young people to look right into the abyss.
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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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When you write in the third person, you get to imagine other people's interiority.
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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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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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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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Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.
