Write Quotes
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My big thing is that I love to write. I want continue writing and performing.
Antoniette Costa
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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.
William Faulkner
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It doesn't have a life of its own. You guys can write about it. But it's been weird.
Brad Soderberg
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The difference between people who can read and write and those who can't is just absolutely astronomical.
Juan Enriquez
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It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write.
Evan Davis
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It's much more important to write than to be written about.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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What I really meant to write to you about today was to tell you that I read your learned and technical and I am sure admirable denouncements of Walt Whitman with a respectful attention due to so much earnestness; and when I had done, and wondered awhile pleasantly at the amount of time for letter-writing the Foreign Office allows its young men, I stretched myself, and got my hat, and went down to the river; and I sat at the water's edge in the middle of a great many buttercups; and there was a little wind; and the little wind knocked the heads of the buttercups together; and it seemed to amuse them, or else something else did, for I do assure you I thought I heard them laugh.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.
Haruki Murakami
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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.
Nasri
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To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
Marcel Proust
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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.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don't know me.
Mariah Carey
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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.
Andreas J. Kostenberger
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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.
Etan Cohen
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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.
George Bernard Shaw
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Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle of his soul.
Henrik Ibsen
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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.
Sigrid Nunez
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What do you really want? Sit down and write it out on a piece of paper, write it in the present tense. You might begin by writing, 'I am so happy and grateful now that...' and then explain how you want your life to be in every area.
Bob Proctor
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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.
Simone de Beauvoir
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If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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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.
Topher Grace
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I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.
Haruki Murakami
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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.
Nick Tosches
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Where is it written that lives should have a meaning? So she began to disparage all that struggle of mine to write. She said mockingly: Is the meaning that line of black markings that look like insect shit?
Elena Ferrante