I Write Quotes

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Before I write I let my mind go blind and let the lord do his thing. — Tupac Shakur
There's a lot of reflection that goes on whenever I write a song - it's been a wild whirlwind last couple of years and there's… — Nick Lachey
But I don't really write to honor the past. I write to investigate, to try to figure out what happened and why it happened, knowing… — Horton Foote
I write in order to make the little voices in my head go away. Thus far it hasn't worked. — Douglas Wilson
Like, when I write a song, the song comes first before production. Everything is written on an acoustic guitar so you can strip away everything… — Taylor Momsen
I don't use a pen. I write with a goose quill dipped in venom. — Clifton Webb
I think I am probably in love with silence, that other world. And that I write, in some way, to negotiate seriously with it. — Jorie Graham
Sold my soul to the devil / for nice penmanship. / Now I write real pretty / but I'm starting to regret it. — Dan Mangan
I write very raw, ugly, illiterate first drafts very quickly (novels are always in first draft in under a year) and then I spend years… — Porochista Khakpour
That adolescent me, the girl who was, as I remember her, insecure, unsure, dreaming, yearning, longing, that girl who was hard on herself, who was… — Norma Fox Mazer
Why do I write historical fiction? Johnny Tremain, The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Island of the Blue Dolphins-that's why. I'll never forget how it felt… — Jennifer Armstrong
I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination. — Leslie Banks
I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do. — Peter Straub
When I write a song it's always from the point of view: makes the song the best it can be. — Gloria Estefan
I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write — Colin Quinn
I write as a witness to what I have seen. — Terry Tempest Williams
I write to create red in a world that often appears black and white. — Terry Tempest Williams
I write because it is dangerous, a bloody risk, like love, to form the words, to say the words, to touch the source, to be… — Terry Tempest Williams
When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I… — Haruki Murakami
Would you convey my compliments to the purist who reads your proofs and tell him or her that I write in a sort of broken-down… — Raymond Chandler

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