Write Quotes
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It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write.
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I try to write about realistic people doing realistic things. Or as close as I can get, given that I'm trying to write a suspenseful crime novel.
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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.
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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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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 write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.
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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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If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.
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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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In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.
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I wanted to write in you.
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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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Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.
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If I don't write every day for one week or even, frankly, one year, I don't really think too much about that.
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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 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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That the object of writing is to write to yourself, to let your self know what you have been trying to avoid.
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If you wish to write, write.
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If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.
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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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It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don't know me.
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I write about sex, not love. What do I know about love?
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I'm lucky; people write scripts for me.
