I Write Quotes
1668 quotes by 1201 authors
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When I write, it's purging for me. It's a therapeutic process.
— Lisa Marie Presley
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When I'm doing interviews, I'm doing interviews, and when I am writing, I'm writing. I sit there with a musician and I write. It's the…
— Lisa Marie Presley
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Mythology, science and space exploration are subjects that have fascinated me since my early childhood. And they were always connected somehow with the music I…
— Vangelis
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Not every song I write is ecstasy. And it can happen only one time. After that, when you sing the same melody and words, it's…
— Paul Simon
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I can write anywhere. I write in airports. I write on airplanes. I've written in the back seats of taxis. I write in hotel rooms.…
— Garrison Keillor
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I cannot listen to Beethoven or Mahler or Chopin or Bach when I write because those composers require you stop what you are doing and…
— Antonio Damasio
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I write songs because I have to write them, and if I didn't I'd be doing some other kind of music that didn't require a…
— John Frusciante
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I live making comics. Comics is an industrial art but less suffering, because comics are for young people who are more adventurous. I do that.…
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
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I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture, I do a…
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
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And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss and the corresponding instinct to protect myself against loss…
— Richard Ford
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My rights, my wrongs, I write ‘til I’m right with God.
— Kendrick Lamar
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When I have a problem, I write it down and ask St Joseph to sleep on it
— Pope Francis
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I try to write from a really honest place when I write pop music and carry the song into a more deep and more symbolic…
— Lady G
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Life happens, and I write about it wherever I am.
— Melissa Etheridge
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I write songs for people who drive in cars. I really do.
— Melissa Etheridge
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I write to find what I have to say. I edit to figure out how to say it right.
— Cheryl Strayed
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I try not to focus on what people say too much because there's nothing I can do about it. All I can do is focus…
— Kip Moore
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What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well,…
— Patricia Reilly Giff
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many…
— J. Cole
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I am building a stairway to the stars. I have the authority to take the whole of mankind up there with me. That is why…
— Bessie Head
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