I Write Quotes

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Burnout is grist to the mill. I write every day, for most of the day, so it's just about turning into metaphor whatever's going on… — Grant Morrison
I write short stories. I write every day. — Isaiah Mustafa
What I write, if you have to label it, is crossover, and I think that much of the stuff that is called children's or YA… — Robin McKinley
With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about. — Walter Dean Myers
I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully. — Robert Metcalfe
In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences. — China Mieville
Every book I write, the first thing I have to do is get into the voice, and the voice varies from book to book -… — China Mieville
Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain. — Erin Morgenstern
I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I… — Erin Morgenstern
I'm not a big gadget guy. When I write, I'll do the whole thing by hand, and then I'll put it into the computer. — Vince Vaughn
I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie. — Marianne Wiggins
I write songs about things that I'm simultaneously trying not to think about. — Warren Zevon
I write in the morning from about eight till noon, and sometimes again a bit in the afternoon. In the morning I start off by… — Gene Hackman
The main objective in any song, the songs that I write, has always been that it reflect the way I feel, that it touch me… — Neil Diamond
Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue. — Leslie Charteris
This above all-ask yourself in the stillest hour of your night: must I write? Delve into yourself for a deep answer. And if this should… — Rainer Maria Rilke
As soon as a thought darts, I write it down. — Thomas Hobbes
When we're falling in love or out of it, that's when we most need a song that says how we feel. Yeah, I write a… — Taylor Swift
When I write, I fall into the zone many writers, painters, musicians, athletes, and craftsmen of all sorts seem to share: In doing something I… — Roger Ebert
So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing and will probably be a… — Edward Abbey

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