Write Quotes
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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 -
Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.
Yuna
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
Taryn Manning Boomkat -
I write to escape; to escape poverty.
Edgar Rice Burroughs -
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 -
People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
Tad Williams -
I really tend to write in retrospect.
Randy Houser -
My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
Tao Lin
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How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.
Walter Jon Williams -
When you're rich you don't write checks.
Randy Moss -
I am a bit prudish, I think. It's hard for me to write about sex, and I don't really care to read about it, either.
Patrick deWitt -
I don't really belong to that world and I don't think anyone's going to miss me. I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely.
Phil Collins Genesis -
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 -
I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
Kate DiCamillo
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A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a song about it.
Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony -
I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just writing down what's happening in front of me.
Victoria Aveyard -
I was a hired drummer for 3 Doors; there wasn't an opportunity for me to write.
Daniel Adair 3 Doors Down -
I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don't have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop!
Edan Lepucki -
And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics.
Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day -
When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
C. K. Williams
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
Patrick Modiano -
I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.
A. S. Byatt -
Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
Garry Shandling -
I wasn't trained as a writer-director. And the projects I write are difficult to finish.
Ziad Doueiri