I Write Quotes

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The phrase 'teen hottie' literally makes me want to throw up. I'm a pop princess at heart. Pop is about distilling what you want to… — Lorde
It's not so much that I write well, I just don't write badly very often and that passes for good on television. — Andy Rooney
I pretty much drink a cup of coffee, write in my journal for a while, and then sit at a computer in my office and… — Jess Walter
The key to being a wonderful writer is not to write. You just get out of the way. Leave room for God to walk in… — Michael Jackson
I write to be the characters that I am not. — Joss Whedon
I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read. — Alice Walker
I write to save someone's life, probably my own — Clarice Lispector
I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature. — Susan Sontag
I write everything as a wake-up call to myself and others, to anyone who may have gotten tired of hitting the snooze button. — Anne Lamott
I talk out the lines as I write them. — Tennessee Williams
I write longhand and I type and I rewrite on the typed pages. — Joseph Heller
I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer. — Will Eisner
Why do I write? The truth, the unvarnished truth, is that I haven't a clue. — Gloria Naylor
Everything of mine is permeated with my love of ideas-both big and small. It doesn't matter what it is, as long as it grabs me… — Ray Bradbury
Books are not about messages. I write to understand my soul — Paulo Coelho
There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write fiction, I know… — Isabel Allende
If I write what my soul thinks it will be visible, and the words will be its body. — Helen Keller
I write to make peace with the things I cannot control. I write to create fabric in the world that often appears black and white.… — Terry Tempest Williams
I can recapture everything when I write, my thoughts, my ideals and my fantasies. — Anne Frank
When you spend time with your friends, what do you talk about? Those things which made an impression on you that day, that week ...… — Naguib Mahfouz

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