I Write Quotes

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I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write. — Ursula K. Le Guin
I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that… — Charles Caleb Colton
I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without… — Francis Ford Coppola
Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing. — Elvis Costello
I write on weekends, on vacation, and, really - on deadline and on my floor. Both terrible for the back. — Sloane Crosley
Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life. — Rachel Cusk
As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates… — Rachel Cusk
I have no sense of a model or predecessor when I write a memoir: For me, the form exists as a method of processing material… — Rachel Cusk
I don't write shows with dialogue where actors have to memorize dialogue. I write the scenes where we know everything that's going to happen. There's… — Larry David
I can't control what people think. I'm not trying to manipulate people's thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life,… — Mos Def
It's very much a piece of myself when I write a song. I don't mean to say it's very personal, like the lyrics mean something… — Zooey Deschanel
Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero. — Ani DiFranco
I write very, very slowly, and for me, I have to summon all sorts of resources to make one of these pieces work. — Junot Diaz
I think there's something really painful about your identity being entirely composed of ghosts. For me, I didn't want to be this kid whose Dominicanness… — Junot Diaz
I write for the people I grew up with. I took extreme pains for my book to not be a native informant. Not: 'This is… — Junot Diaz
I write incredibly slowly. And, on top of that, I spent my entire youth and twenties working like a dog, so one of the things… — Junot Diaz
When I write, what I long for is not more realism or fiction but more courage. That's what I always find myself short on and… — Junot Diaz
When I write with Maiden, then I write only with the guys in Maiden, we don't do songs from outside people. — Bruce Dickinson
I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what… — Joan Didion

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