I Write Quotes

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A lot of the time, I write a lot of angry stuff, but then I don't want to be a finger-pointer - I'd rather be… — Dave Matthews
When people ask what I write about, that's what I tell them: 'The drama of human relationships.' I'm not even close to running out of… — Joyce Maynard
I want to sell to people my own age, because that's the way I write songs. — John Mellencamp
I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk. — H. L. Mencken
I'm a comic book artist. So I think to myself, what do I like to draw? I like to draw hot chicks, fast cars and… — Frank Miller
I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself. — Michel de Montaigne
When I write I try as far as possible to forget I'm writing it at all. I tell it down onto the page, as if… — Michael Morpurgo
I write fiction. I make things up, it's what I do. — Michael Morpurgo
Ignorance breeds antipathy. Until I got to know how computers worked, I didn't want anything to do with them. I said, 'Well, why do I… — Viggo Mortensen
Whenever I write a novel, music just sort of naturally slips in (much like cats do, I suppose). — Haruki Murakami
I write in a small office at home. — Walter Dean Myers
I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child. — Vladimir Nabokov
I write against the religion because if women want to live like human beings, they will have to live outside the religion and Islamic law. — Taslima Nasrin
When I'm driving the highway by myself is when I write best. — Willie Nelson
I don't have any writing routine. Sometimes I go to my local coffee shop and I write there for some hours. Apart from that, I… — Jo Nesbo
I always rewrite the very beginning of a novel. I rewrite the beginning as I write the ending, so I may spend part of morning… — Joyce Carol Oates
I don't feel I write fast. I write in longhand and do so much revision. On the page, it's so old-fashioned. I could write a… — Joyce Carol Oates
I think all art comes out of conflict. When I write I am always looking for the dramatic kernel of an event, the junctures of… — Joyce Carol Oates
I write in longhand and assemble lots of notes, and then I try to collate them into a coherent chronology. It's like groping along in… — Joyce Carol Oates
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. — George Orwell

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