Write Quotes
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I did not write it. God wrote it. I merely did his dictation.
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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 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 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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I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.
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In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.
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My method is, I just sit down and write a book.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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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 didn't consciously make the decision to write an adult novel. I didn't think of it as my riposte to the YA genre.
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Mostly, I just write about feelings that people can relate to. Because, yeah, I don't know who I am, and this is not my sound forever... I'm a human, so hopefully, I will always develop.
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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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You write a novel by inventing a world and inventing the rules that govern that world. Then you break the rules when you want to.
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It's hard to write a comedy sketch.
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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 do, however, think it would be difficult to write books I don't like to read.
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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!
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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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My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.
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I have a nice little movie career, and I write plays and do my act.
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I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words.
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I couldn't imagine having to write a paper and have to think about what song I am going to sing.
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If I didn't write, I'd be like a duvet cover; I have no other marketable skills. Clearly I'm not meant to do anything else.
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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.
