Write Quotes
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There is a part of me that has to depend on fantasy, because if you can't be somewhat of a fantasy person, then you can't write.
Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
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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.
William Faulkner
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Don’t write to impress other people — impress yourself first!
Vinny May Jr.
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I just being able to write songs I'm proud of and finding some women to play with is exciting.
Douglas Glenn Colvin Ramones
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Almost through force of habit, she found her lips saying the words she had so often said before: “Let’s not spoil it . . . You will write to me, my dear, my dear . . .” His face was impassive. “I never write,” he said.
Bel Kaufman
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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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I can never plan out what direction my poems will take in terms of either form or content. I wish I could but it doesn't work that way for me. If I try to write something, I'd probably end up doing the opposite.
Elaine Equi
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I write for young girls of color, for girls who don’t even exist yet, so that there is something there for them when they arrive. I can only change how they live, not how they think.
Ntozake Shange
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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 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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Recognize how truly blessed you are. Take time to count your blessings and write them down. To make your dreams come true you must already be soaking in the very presence you wish to create.
Brandon Bays
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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
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If I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
Henrik Ibsen
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A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke.
Rumi
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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.
Ben Lerner
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Women do not always have to write about women, or gay men about gay men. Indeed, something good and new might happen if they did not.
Kathryn Hughes
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I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound.
William Lashner
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If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats.
Eugen Weber
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Rock stars wanting to write is even worse than wanting to act in movies, right?
Evan Dando
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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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I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.
Brett Dennen
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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.
Cressida Cowell
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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 doesn't have a life of its own. You guys can write about it. But it's been weird.
Brad Soderberg