Write Quotes
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I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words.
Cass McCombs -
Most people don't know me, that is why they write such things in which most is not true. I cry very very often because it hurts and I worry about the children, all my children all over the world, I live for them.
Michael Jackson
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When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.
Haruki Murakami -
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 -
I didn't write because I had anything to say, but in order to find out what there was to say.
Eugene H. Peterson -
I don't write every day, but if I go more than a couple of months without writing, I begin to get a little nervous. I usually have bursts of poems. Five or six come together and then I slack off and want to do something else.
Elaine Equi -
I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what I know.
Sarah Dessen -
Everyone has early fiction fantasies, but it wasn't until my second child Betsy was born that I allowed the urge to write a novel bubble up.
Susan Isaacs
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In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come to the end of time. God sends a time of forced leisure, a time of sickness and disappointed plans, and makes a sudden pause in the hymns of our lives, and we lament that our voice must be silent and our part missing in the music which ever goes up to the ear of our Creator. Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time and not be dismayed at the rests. If we look up, God will beat the time for us.
John Ruskin -
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 -
I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.
Brett Dennen -
A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke.
Rumi -
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
Stephen King -
It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.
Nathaniel Borenstein
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If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life.
Nick Flynn -
Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
Emil Cioran -
Be fearless. Write what you want. Write how you want. Create art.
Beth Revis -
Write, if you must; not otherwise. Do not write, if you can earn a fair living at teaching or dressmaking, at electricity or hod-carrying. Make shoes, weed cabbages, survey land, keep house, make ice-cream, sell cake, climb a telephone pole. Nay, be a lightning-rod peddler or a book agent, before you set your heart upon it that you shall write for a living.... Living? It is more likely to be dying by your pen; despairing by your pen; burying hope and heart and youth and courage in your ink-stand.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward -
Greta, Greta, he whispered, eyes shut in rapture, on thy breast I write my Edda, at thy feet I lay the keys of Niflheim, by thy leave alone, I live, and breathe, and die.
Catherynne M. Valente -
Sometimes I feel as if the only thing I can do is write. It helps me think.
Elizabeth Wein
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I don't know how to write jokes from the point of view of a six-foot-two guy. So, I'll always talk about it, but I just don't want it to be the absolute focus of all of my act.
Brad Williams -
It doesn't have a life of its own. You guys can write about it. But it's been weird.
Brad Soderberg -
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 -
It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
Erica Jong