Write Quotes
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I'm usually really drawn to a song, and I know it would be good to cover if it sounds like something that I could write, or I wished I could write. Sometimes a writer just sounds like they're in your head, and that is really cool for me.
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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 try to write stories that will attract younger readers and make them feel part of a wider readership. I do not feel able to write books that are about, or even for, teenagers; and I am inclined to be suspicious of books which 'target' them.
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I write my music.
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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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Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail.
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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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I could learn how to press 'Record' on a tape recorder and write for a newspaper or a magazine.
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I really don't have anything urgent to say, and I think you shouldn't write unless you have something urgent to say. Sometimes that troubles me, and sometimes I don't really care.
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Let's make Marco Rubio explain why he thinks oil companies should write our energy policy.
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I don't think of myself as Scottish or lesbian when I sit down and write. I am glad I have broken out of that limited audience.
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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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Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
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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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Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the pulse.
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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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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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When I write and produce something, I know exactly how I want it to sound, and I have a very strong interpretation of it. I can't really think of anyone at the moment I'd particularly like to play a duet with. You never know, though, I might receive an offer tomorrow and say, "Yeah, that'd be great." But it's not something that's on my mind.
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When I open my mouth and sing, the truth comes out. When I write, the truth comes out. I can't lie. That, I think, is one of the strongest elements of my music. When people talk about my writing as though I'm doing it from an accountant's perspective, it really pisses me off.
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I don't want to write, I'd rather draw.
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I don't write women who are weak or simpering.
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Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.
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One can be well-bred and write bad poetry.
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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.
