Write Quotes
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I write to be recorder, observer, participant, and sometimes, even judge. I want to engage the world as I see it with my whole self - all of those different aspects of it.
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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 can write about pain without experiencing pain, which I am thankful for.
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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 write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound.
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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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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 didn't write because I had anything to say, but in order to find out what there was to say.
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If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.
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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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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 don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.
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I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.
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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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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 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 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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You write about experiences partly to understand what they mean, partly not to lose them to time. To oblivion. But there's always the danger of the opposite happening. Losing the memory of the experience itself to the memory of writing about it.
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Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.
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When we get together to rehearse, we could write music together all day long - GOOD music.
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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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My secret dream is to write an epic poem. That's probably the most pretentious thing I've said.
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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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I often wonder if I had the complete freedom to not have to write, if I would write. That's the one mystery that I hope I get to experience.
