Write Quotes
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Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
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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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History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it.
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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.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write.
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I used to see a lot of cocaine. There were journalists who used cocaine and didn't write about it and I didn't write about it. I would never do drugs, so I would always get the same response from people: "Smart kid, more for me." Whether it was a joke or sincere or both, but I was just happy not to be in there partying with the band like some of these other journalists.
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I love a lot of music that's considered folk music, but I also love a lot of music that's considered punk or considered rap. I don't mind being called a folk singer. But it seems a bit limiting. I want to be able to write whatever kind of song I want.
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I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.
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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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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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No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.
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I write in the most classical French because this form is necessary for my novels: to translate the murky, floating, unsettling atmosphere I wanted them to have, I had to discipline it into the clearest, most traditional language possible.
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I'm one of the idiots that negotiates after I write.
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I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.
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I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.
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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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One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.' I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class - cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl!
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What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.
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Write down everything you want to do with your life and then spend the next 25 years doing them.
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I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show.
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I don't want to write, I'd rather draw.
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In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.
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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.
