Write Quotes
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I don't write about myself. I'm never in my books.
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Wow. Did I just write that? I didn't want who I am to come between us? How could I not have seen that?
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If you wish to write, write.
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People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.
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It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
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I want to write songs with meaning. I have high standards for my work.
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If you wanna write a song, ask a guitar
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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.
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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.
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I've always thought flight was fun and wanted to write about flight, and I knew a lot of househusbands who were having a really bad time with it. I thought flight might perk up a marriage here or there.
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I began to write poetry in high school, and would ride miles over sandy roads in the fine hills around Cedar Rapids, repeating the lines over and over until I had them right, making some of the rhythm of the horse help.
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My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.
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My first job is to write the characters as full and authentic people as well as I can.
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I see and write things first as an artist, second as a woman, and third as a New Yorker. All three have built-in perspectives that aren't neutral.
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If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.
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Basically, I just write whatever story grabs me rather than considering the genre.
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The only successful way to write, and the only one I have found, is to be the character. Give up on trying to control them. Writers always talk about hearing voices. That's what they mean.
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I wanted to write in you.
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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.
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It's scary when you get to a point where you write these songs that people like, and then you think, "Am I ever going to be able to write something better than that?"
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I always write my novels with music. I don't listened to the music seriously. Music seems to encourage me.
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I write about sex, not love. What do I know about love?
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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.
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It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don't know me.
