Write Quotes
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If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
Ted Rall
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It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself.
Dan Castellaneta
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
P. D. James
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I'm really not a journalist, and I don't do a ton of newsy pieces. Occasionally I'll write about something that's going on recently, but I really don't do a ton of stuff that's tied to current events.
Mallory Ortberg
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I love the soul sound that the Bee Gees are into now, and that's the kind of feel that I want to have on all my records. Unfortunately, though, I don't write in that vein. I'm better at writing country-rock music because, while I was recording in Miami, the Eagles were working in the studio next door and I was heavily influenced by their soun.
Andy Gibb
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And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
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I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.
J. A. Konrath
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I would still give my left ball to write anything as good as OK Computer.
Chris Martin Coldplay
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I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and then another layer, and the stuff that would come up underneath was so inspiring, it made me want to write about it.
Damien Rice
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I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write.
Daniel Adair 3 Doors Down
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I'm not sure there are too many people who write what I write.
L. E. Modesitt
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Do not write if there is no tremendous urge to do so. At the heart, there must be an inspiration or muse or one of those old-fashioned things. Else, why bore yourself, destroy other people's interest and kill trees?
Vikram Seth
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Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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I write songs that are like diary entries. I have to do it in order to feel sane.
Taylor Swift
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Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.
George Bernard Shaw
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Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.
Gary Oldman
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I really tend to write in retrospect.
Randy Houser
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I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
Lance Bass NSYNC
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I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
Lainie Kazan
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I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president?'
Tate Taylor
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Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail.
Eliot Spitzer
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When I'm writing, it's the weirdest thing: it's not even a conscious process. I'm not even thinking when I write, and then all of a sudden, I'll have a song that makes me feel so much better than I did before.
Banks
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I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.
Questlove
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As always, I wrote songs. Some people cook or play sports. This is what I love to do. Sometimes I can't express myself that well in talk, so I write songs.
Yael Naim