I Write Quotes

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I don't write fantasy, I write reality. Also, my novels have roots to Greek tragedies and as such, there has to be tragedy. — Nicholas Sparks
I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality. — Manuel Puig
Money is not worth dying for. I know, because years ago, while nearly a million dollars in debt, suicide was an option. Rather than run,… — Robert Kiyosaki
Dig deep into your heart, where the answer spreads its roots in your being, and ask yourself solemnly, Must I write? — Rainer Maria Rilke
I started writing when I had three kids under the age of 4. I used to write every ten minutes I got to sit in… — Jodi Picoult
I think everything I do has Howard Roark [hero of The Fountainhead] in it, you know, as much as anything. The person I write for… — Neil Peart
I write because I'm unhappy. I write because it's a way of fighting unhappiness. — Mario Vargas Llosa
I write poetry because I canâ€™t disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat. For a long… — Gabriela Mistral
I write every day when I'm at home - trying to catch up with correspondence. — Colin Dexter
I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write. — Tom Araya
I write a manifesto and I want nothing, yet I say certain things, and in principle I am against manifestoes, as I am also against… — Tristan Tzara
I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house. — Jeffery Deaver
I write in the afternoon, from about 12 until 6 or 7. I use an upstairs room as my office. Once I get going I… — Lee Child
I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information. When I write an advertisement, I donâ€™t want… — David Ogilvy
I write quite a lot of sonnets, and I think of them almost as prayers: short and memorable, something you can recite. — Carol Ann Duffy
I think that my work is easy to understand because I am not a thinker, I am not a... How can I put it? I… — Sharon Olds
I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print — Laurell K. Hamilton
We have to have genius creative thoughts precisely four times a year and on exact dates. I actually write them on my calendar. I write,… — Tom Ford
I may have a little bit of a talent for music, but I've learnt to tap into my own self when I write. When I… — Neil Diamond
I write journals and would recommend journal writing to anyone who wishes to pursue a writing career. You learn a lot. You also remember a… — Judy Collins

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