I Write Quotes

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When I write songs I write for myself...I'm writing it as a form of expression, and hoping to find an audience, an audience that responds… — Patti Scialfa
I write music with an exclamation point! — Richard Wagner
When I write, I don't have any expectation of what kind of song it will become or who it might reach. — Macklemore
The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I'll overreach myself once too often and try… — Orson Scott Card
One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write… — John Thorn
Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of… — Edward Abbey
Had my credentials been in order I would never have become a writer. Had I been blessed with even limited access to my own mind… — Joan Didion
What do you know about me, given that I believe in secrecy? ... If I stick where I am, if I don't travel around, like… — Gilles Deleuze
I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade... the rivers of… — Marquis de Sade
I write 2,000 words a day when I write. It sometimes takes three hours, it sometimes takes five hours. — Nicholas Sparks
O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a letter of criticism… — Virginia Woolf
If I write a new play, my point of view may be profoundly modified. I may be obliged to contradict myself and I may no… — Eugene Ionesco
I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see a new play… — Thornton Wilder
I want to fall in love with something in the way I fell in love with the idea of Harry before I write anything else. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
My nutritionist says, 'If you bite it, write it.' Writing down everything that you put in your mouth really helps. I donâ€™t count a damn… — Tyra Banks
I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with… — Petrarch
Listen closely. Thereâ€™s a remote possibility that you might learn something: First, I donâ€™t give a damn if my work is commercial or notâ€¦Iâ€™m the… — John Fante
I don't write for children. I write, and somebody says, 'That's for children.' — Maurice Sendak
When I write a book, I put everything I have into it; so the more I have, the more the books become. Some people get… — Matthew Woodring Stover
I tend to plan as I write. And I want to leave myself open and the character open to keep on going until it seems… — Roddy Doyle

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