I Write Quotes

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You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know what you know. What… — Douglas Adams
The more I write, the more I've come to realize that books have a different place in our society than other media. Books are different… — Joe Meno
(W)hat I write when I force myself is generally just as good as what I write when I'm feeling inspired. It's mainly a matter of… — Tom Wolfe
I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal. — Doris Lessing
I write because I hate. A lot. Hard. — William H. Gass
I write out of revenge. — William Goldman
I write of the wish that comes true--for some reason, a terrifying thought. — James M. Cain
I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot… — Kage Baker
I'm a musician. I write songs. I just hope when the day is done I've been able to tear a little corner off of the… — Bono
When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for children. Children are… — Madeleine L'Engle
If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that… — Susan Sontag
If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant. — Fernando Pessoa
(The new boyfriend) knows I write every day for hours but has no idea that all Iâ€™m writing about is me. It seems wiser to… — Augusten Burroughs
I do not know what I think until I write it. — George Bernard Shaw
The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life. — Zadie Smith
When I write, I make discoveries about my feelings. — Gail Carson Levine
I write as a function. Without it I would fall ill and die. It's as much a part of one as the liver or intestine,… — Charles Bukowski
When I write, I don't translate for white readers.... Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If I'm specific, and… — Toni Morrison
That is why I write - to try to turn sadness into longing, solitude into remembrance. — Paulo Coelho
I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite. — Margaret Mitchell

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