I Write Quotes

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I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me,… — Karen Thompson Walker
There's nothing as perfect as the initial idea. And the only reason I write and direct is to protect the writing, because that's what's most… — Ricky Gervais
You're responsible for your own character to a degree, because when it comes to the final draft of the script, you might say, "Well, I… — Charlie Day
I fell into writing plays by accident. But the reason I write plays is that it's the only thing I'm any good at. — David Hare
I write about what I know, what I live, what I observe. — Taylor Momsen
I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. — Edward Gorey
I don't know too many people because I stay at my house, I write songs, I go to the store. — Jules Shear
I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language. — Daniel Alarcon
As I write, Kim Beazley has the numbers and the game looks over. — Margo Kingston
Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project… — Antony Sher
I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them. — Charles de Lint
I write on a computer, but I've run the complete gambit. When I was very young, I wrote with a ballpoint pen in school notebooks.… — Charles de Lint
I don't actually talk about my books much, because I find if I talk about them I don't want to write them anymore. I write… — Charles de Lint
There isn't a single day I don't do some writing -- if you don't, you won't have a book. When you're self-employed it is very… — Charles de Lint
It is now only in letters I write what I feel: not in literature any more, and I seldom say it, because I keep trying… — E. M. Forster
The one affectation I have forced on the publisher ... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself, I dont spell… — Andy Rooney
Poetry, at least the kind I write, is written out of immediate need; it is written out of pain, joy, and experience too great to… — Madeleine L'Engle
It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write the kind of… — Madeleine L'Engle
Not like Homer would I write, Not like Dante if I might, Not like Shakespeare at his best, Not like Goethe or the rest, Like… — William Allingham
[As a screenwriter] I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and… — Raymond Chandler

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