Write Quotes
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Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?
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Don’t write to impress other people — impress yourself first!
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You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.
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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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A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke.
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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 hard for me to write about anything personal because I get way too personal.
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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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If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats.
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It doesn't have a life of its own. You guys can write about it. But it's been weird.
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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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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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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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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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When you write you have a certain vision of how it could be and it's great to be able to see it all the way to the goal line.
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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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Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?
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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
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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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You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate.
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I would be a terrible director, I could never write anything. One of my great strengths is that I know all of my weaknesses.
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What a place for him who intends to pass an examination, to write a book, or who wants the crumples got by crushing together too long with his fellows to be smoothed out of his soul.
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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 don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.
