Write Quotes
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I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can 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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What I really meant to write to you about today was to tell you that I read your learned and technical and I am sure admirable denouncements of Walt Whitman with a respectful attention due to so much earnestness; and when I had done, and wondered awhile pleasantly at the amount of time for letter-writing the Foreign Office allows its young men, I stretched myself, and got my hat, and went down to the river; and I sat at the water's edge in the middle of a great many buttercups; and there was a little wind; and the little wind knocked the heads of the buttercups together; and it seemed to amuse them, or else something else did, for I do assure you I thought I heard them laugh.
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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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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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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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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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Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.
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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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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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If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.
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If you wanna write a song, ask a guitar
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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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I wanted to write in you.
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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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It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don't know me.
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Basically, I just write whatever story grabs me rather than considering the genre.
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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.
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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?"
