Write Quotes
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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'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel.
Haruki Murakami
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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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People take things a little too personal. I write these songs, and they're experiments with thoughts. That's it. I'm not a teacher.
Cass McCombs
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I write about things, recent experiences, people around me, some not so affectionately. I’d like to think I’m a little past writing about beer and chicks - unless it’s about my wife, who is a cool chick.
Jizzy Pearl
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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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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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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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The difference between people who can read and write and those who can't is just absolutely astronomical.
Juan Enriquez
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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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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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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.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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I think that if you just write your characters you end up with something that people can access.
Ayana Mathis
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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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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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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
Stephen King
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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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All of it made me think about this book I want to write. It's about greed.
John Densmore The Doors
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When you write in the third person, you get to imagine other people's interiority.
Emily Gould
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Really I'm just an actor. The only difference between me and those cats in Hollywood is that I write my own script.
Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
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Men who can, when they wish to write a document, shut themselves up for days with their thoughts and their books, know little of what difficulties a woman must surmount to get off a tolerable production.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
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Be fearless. Write what you want. Write how you want. Create art.
Beth Revis
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I'm very parasitic, from my own experiences. I just go and mine my dirty laundry, you know, and go through it until I find something that's interesting enough to me to write a song about.
Nikki Jean
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I always write my novels with music. I don't listened to the music seriously. Music seems to encourage me.
Haruki Murakami