I Write Quotes

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I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then I type it… — Paul Auster
In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing that I find… — Billie Joe Armstrong
I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. — Isaac Asimov
Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but… — Kate Atkinson
I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent. — Bill Ayers
I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone. — Sebastian Bach
Humanity is a failed experiment, but I think I'm God and I'd like to start over. I don't want to die, I just want everyone… — Roseanne Barr
To say that I have an undisciplined mind would not be incorrect overall, but it's a little off the mark because I have great discipline… — Roseanne Barr
I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose… — Samuel Beckett
The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I'm writing about, and that's why they always end up being so… — Adele
Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and… — Bjork
I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early. — Daniel J. Boorstin
I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them… — Anthony Bourdain
It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about. — Anthony Bourdain
What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You… — David Bowie
First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it is something to… — Geraldine Brooks
When I write a word in English, a simple one, such as, say, 'chief,' I have unwittingly ushered a querulous horde into the room. The… — Geraldine Brooks
I write seven days a week, starting at 4 o'clock in the morning, including Christmas. — Dan Brown

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