I Write Quotes
1668 quotes by 1201 authors
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Like, I kind of developed my musical style in a vacuum. Even though I listen to a lot of stuff, the way I wrote was…
— Liz Phair
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I'm all over the place. As you may have seen from the credits, I write with everybody.
— Michael McKean
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I write when something sticks in my craw. Writing is a compulsion — or an itch.
— Hisaye Yamamoto
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I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct…
— Anthony Minghella
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When I present or speak, I write the slides myself. And regarding time, I would like to be able to publish more than I do.
— Padmasree Warrior
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At the time I write, the glory of the truffle has now reached its culmination. Who would dare to say that he has been at…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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When I write what publishers call 'fantasy' I am writing in what I think is the most important tradition of fiction: starting with Homer and…
— Janet Morris
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I write not to record what I think but to discover what I think
— David Malouf
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Everything that I write will be signed with my name.
— Elinor Glyn
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If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.
— Wanda Jackson
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I see life as increasingly complex, vivid, colorful, crazy, chaotic. That's the world I write about...the world I live in.
— Julia Glass
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I write the kind of stuff I'd like to watch,
— Steven Moffat
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I remember listening to the radio as a kid and finding that the songs always made me feel more peaceful. Funny, but the more hurtin'…
— Chris Isaak
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I write my own songs, and I only see their flaws.
— Chris Isaak
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My readers are 90 percent gay, and it's who I write for. I am not here to entertain straight people.
— Sarah Schulman
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America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?
— Allen Ginsberg
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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
— Tahar Ben Jelloun
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The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really…
— Pete Townshend
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Sometimes, I write '60s or '80s style pop songs.
— Peter Steele
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Before I write down one word, I have to have the character in my mind through and through. I must penetrate into the last wrinkle…
— Henrik Ibsen
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