Write Quotes
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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
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If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.
Martin Luther
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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 novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound.
William Lashner
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I didn't write because I had anything to say, but in order to find out what there was to say.
Eugene H. Peterson
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Consider for a moment what you pay attention to all day long. What seems important to you, what do you take for granted and hardly attend to at all? Write it down. Do not judge your answers. Be honest and simple. As you keep track all week long, you'll be amazed at what claims your attention, what you give your precious life force to.
Brenda Shoshanna
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Be fearless. Write what you want. Write how you want. Create art.
Beth Revis
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The way I write is that, every time I reintroduced a character, I'd have to face some kind of inner demon.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
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If cats could write history, their history would be mostly about cats.
Eugen Weber
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I don't write about myself. I'm never in my books.
Susan Straight
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I like to write about the moment of light in the hour of darkness.
Ethan Canin
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Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.
Esther Renay Dean
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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.
Steven Amsterdam
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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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I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel.
Haruki Murakami
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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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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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If you wish to write, write.
Epictetus
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I wanted to write in you.
Beatrice Sparks
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In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.
Catherine the Great
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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.
Paul Engle
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I never want to write something until I know every scene in the movie. I don't want someone hiring me and then me not being able to write it. Which is always a fear. So I like to figure it out, know all the characters, and know almost every scene in the movie before I start writing.
Stephen Sommers
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I just write whenever I can.
Elmer Kelton
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The best advice I can give to any aspiring author is to write every single day. Work at the craft of writing. Take it seriously.
Andrea Davis Pinkney