I Write Quotes

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I got on the phone with the president of my label and I said, "Obviously, I write songs in a lot of styles and play… — Ryan Adams
I'm in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write. — Bertolt Brecht
I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out. — Rainbow Rowell
I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that I write, last… — Fernando Pessoa
I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself. — Fernando Pessoa
When I write, I solemnly visit myself. — Fernando Pessoa
Ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write [create]? Dig into yourself for a deep answer. — Rainer Maria Rilke
When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after the first light as possible. There is no… — Ernest Hemingway
It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write. — Erica Jong
There is no blue without yellow and without orange, and if you put in blue, then you must put in yellow, and orange too, mustn't… — Vincent Van Gogh
I tend to write things seven times before I show them to my editor. I write them seven times, then I take them on tour,… — David Sedaris
I refuse to be misled by any kind of a mirage about any alleged success of what I write. Those things are too easily exaggerated,… — Thomas Merton
Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood. — Billy Joel
Of every four words I write, I strike out three. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky sentence,… — Janet Fitch
Cheryl Cole, if you're reading this, I may not be as prety as you but at least I write my own songs. — Lily Allen
My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't,… — Yann Martel
The book is an unbearable totality. I write against a background of facets. — Edmond Jabes
And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be â€“ if I were a child. I write for the child… — Astrid Lindgren
I write and chop with my left hand and do everything else, including eating with a knife, with my right. — Heston Blumenthal

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