Write Quotes
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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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There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.
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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.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
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I wanted to write about the things that I love.
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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 still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.
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In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.
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I write to escape; to escape poverty.
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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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Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
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I don't sit and write stand-up material; I come up with an idea onstage.
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I write fifteen hours a day, stopping at Oprah-o'clock.
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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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There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.
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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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I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.
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Any of the rewards or accolades or any of that are very nice and everything but the music is what saves me. And it did. I would write my way out of any kind of depressing period.
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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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His Majesty the King requires that the Royal Chancellery in all written documents endeavor to write in clear, plain Swedish.
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If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.
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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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I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.
