Write Quotes
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All the stories I write come from someone I've met or some anecdote I've heard.
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The books I like to read the most feel like they've been written by somebody who had to write them or go crazy. They had to get them out of their heads. I like that kind of urgency.
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I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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If you want to get an email to Robert Redford, you send it to his assistant, and she prints it out. And then he will write you a letter, which is incredibly rare and incredibly classy. Unfortunately, I can't be that removed from technology.
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It would be fun to write with Adele, actually. She seems like a fun girl to write with.
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I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.
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I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.
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The sad part about happy endings is there's nothing to write about.
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I have a handicap in that English is not my first language. So even though I'm a writer, I don't write anymore because it's just harder in English.
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The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.
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Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
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I never write my stories as a wake-up call as such. I simply explore the kinds of situations that I find personally challenging by placing characters into situations that challenge them in similar ways.
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I don't want to write, I'd rather draw.
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It's always performing for me. I write and I record so I can perform. It all ties to that. I've done it since I was a little kid. That's my absolute rush, is playing for different people every night, bringing something else to the table they've never seen.
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Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.
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If I write something, and I'm going to put in all that love and energy, I want to direct it.
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A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
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History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
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I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised by it. But you have to go with what feels right.
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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They can sonically sound like me, but nobody's ever gonna be able to write songs like T-Pain. There's only one of those.
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If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.
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I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.
