I Write Quotes

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I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write. — Leonard Cohen
I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate. — Michael Connelly
I write about things that are important for us as Americans. I'm concerned about al-Qaeda sneaking across the border with the illegal immigrants that are… — Brad Thor
The most annoying and full- of- crap thing a writer says is, I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it. A… — Harlan Coben
I don't write for an audience. I write for myself. And if I imagine an audience at all, it's the characters, but I know that… — Ursula Hegi
I write about sex, not love. What do I know about love? — Sarah Jessica Parker
I write every day as a matter of course It is not a burden. It is the way I live. — Mavis Gallant
As a writer, I write to see. If I knew how it would end, I wouldn't write. It's a process of discovery. — John McGahern
I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot… — Arnold Schoenberg
I write music, itâ€™s performed. After all, my music says it all. It doesnâ€™t need historical and hysterical commentaries. In the long run, any words… — Dmitri Shostakovich
The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. . . . I… — William Butler Yeats
I write out of instinct. — Jerome Weidman
I write because to write a new sentence, let alone a new poem, is to cross the threshold into both a larger existence and a… — Jane Hirshfield
When I write, I don't know what is going to emerge. I begin in a condition of complete unknowing, an utter nakedness of concept or… — Jane Hirshfield
I'm a full-time believer in writing habits...You may be able to do without them if you have genius but most of us only have talent… — Flannery O'Connor
I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done — Clifford Geertz
Whom do I write for? I write for the story. Each story, it seems to me, knows best how it should be told. As I… — Jerry Spinelli
Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility… — Kate DiCamillo
Nobody believes this, but I write very fast, — Robert Caro
But every point of view is a point of blindness: it incapacitates us for every other point of view. From a certain point of view,… — Richard Wurmbrand

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