I Write Quotes
1668 I Write quotes by unique 1176 authors
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Other people write about the bling and the booty. I write about the pus and the gnats. To me, that's beautiful.
— Unknown Author
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If I could express the same thing with words as with music, I would, of course, use a verbal expression. Music is something autonomous and…
— Jean Sibelius
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Sometimes I write about things that never happened to me that wind up happening to me. When you put things out in the universe, sometimes…
— Chad Kroeger
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I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.
— Jack Prelutsky
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The way I write, words can means lots of different things.
— Beth Orton
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Sasuke is always in the corner of my mind. Naruto and Sasuke progress as a pair. So when I write about Naruto, I always have…
— Masashi Kishimoto
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I write about the things that haunt or obsess me.
— Caroline Leavitt
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How many words a day do I write? Between six and seven thousand. And how many hours does that take? Three on a good day,…
— John Creasey
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I discovered John Truby ten years ago when a friend told me about his screenwriting course. I studied Truby's principles for a year and --…
— Caroline Lawrence
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When I write songs I think about how it makes people feel, and I hope that when it goes into your ears you feel happy…
— Lights
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Writing is an outlet, but it’s not an outlet of escape. People keep a journal when they want to escape. I write to rub my…
— Amelia Gray
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Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued.
— Joseph Wambaugh
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I write in order to comprehend, not to express myself.
— Anna Kamienska
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I don’t write poetry when I wish, I write when I can’t, when my larynx is flooded and my throat is shut.
— Anna Kamienska
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I have no talent. I write poems for myself, to think things through, that’s all.
— Anna Kamienska
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It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I'm stitching the scraps back…
— Julia Alvarez
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When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.'
— Maya Angelou
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I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it.
— Frank Serpico
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I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts.
— Aldous Huxley
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Actually, when I write, there is a feeling of necessity, of something that is stronger than myself that demands that I must write as I…
— Jacques Derrida
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