I Write Quotes

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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, — P.J. O'Rourke
I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre. — Jackie Collins
When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause. — Wietse Venema
I write in praise of the solitary act: of not feeling a trespassing tongue forced into one's mouth, one's breath smothered, nipples crushed against the… — Fleur Adcock
This will be a great day in our history; the date of a New Revolution - quite as much needed as the old one. Even… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm not even really aware of writing for myself. — Tanith Lee
When I write a paper, I change my notation much more than I change my concepts. — Leslie Lamport
I write scripts in storyboard fashion using stick figures, and thought balloons and word balloons and captions. Then I'll write descriptions of what scenes should… — Harvey Pekar
I am not a writer except when I write. — Juan Carlos Onetti
When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
A very wise author once said that a writer writes for himself, and then publishes for money. I write for myself and publish just for… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
I don't much believe in the idea of characters. I write with words, that is all. Whether those words are put in the mouth of… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
He taught me everything I know. Every note I write I learned from that man upstairs. People rave over my arranging today, and I just… — Nelson Riddle
I write the songs first and in most cases teach myself the technique second. — Joe Satriani
When I write I can shake off all my cares. My sorrow disappears, my spirits are revived. — Anne Frank
I write a thousand words a day. — Lisa See
I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of my manuscripts back to myself… — Erik Larson
There's no new direction. It's not more poppy or more rocky. They're just rock'n'roll tunes. I'll never change the music I write. — Noel Gallagher

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