Write Quotes
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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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My big thing is that I love to write. I want continue writing and performing.
Antoniette Costa
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I found it incredibly challenging to write clear prose that had the dynamism that I wanted.
Alex Lemon
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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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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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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.
Allison Joseph
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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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I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound.
William Lashner
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No one I know actually reads what I write, so thank heavens for you strangers.
Sarah Vowell
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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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I like to write about the moment of light in the hour of darkness.
Ethan Canin
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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 think that if you just write your characters you end up with something that people can access.
Ayana Mathis
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Basically, I just write whatever story grabs me rather than considering the genre.
Sarah Pinborough
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I start my process hand written, and then I dump it in. It's like you're getting a second draft 'cause when I put it in the computer, I fix it and change stuff. That's my process. I picked that up from speaking to Neil Gaiman and Joe Hill. I was messing around with the idea of starting to write more, writing a book and doing things like this, and I reached out for advice. They were like, "Oh, we hand write, and then we dump it all in." I was like, "Great! There's no more blank pages."
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
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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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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 I cannot be myself in what I write, then the whole is nothing but lies and humbug.
Henrik Ibsen
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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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I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.
Haruki Murakami
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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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Don't write about a character. Become that character, and then write your story.
Ethan Canin
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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 willingly trust myself to chance. I let my thoughts wander, I digress, not only sitting at my work, but all day long, all night even. It often happens that a sentence suddenly runs through my head before I go to bed, or when I am unable to sleep, and I get up again and write it down.
Simone de Beauvoir