I Write Quotes

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I write in that space between Ella's childhood and mine. I know it all sounds a bit sinister. — Carol Ann Duffy
It's hard to know exactly what it sounds like to me. I'm in the studio and I write it. and that's it. — Nuno Bettencourt
Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades… — Elizabeth Gilbert
The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic… — Zach Braff
I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I… — Eric Brown
I write and direct the Duke University Children's Hospital Benefit every year. — David Friedman
I write plays for people who wouldn't be seen dead in the theatre. — Barrie Keeffe
I've never tried to define my states of mind when I write. — Adrienne Kennedy
Sometimes I write them down in musical notation as a trigger to remind me about certain directions to go. Or I can be specific about… — Harold Budd
With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully… — Augusten Burroughs
Winning the Pulitzer is wonderful and it's an honor and I feel so humbled and so grateful, but I think that I'll think of it… — Jhumpa Lahiri
I write what's given me to write. — Philip Levine
I talk to Simon, I write to him. I never used to write a diary. But now I'm writing a diary to him. I think… — Petra Nemcova
I write a lot of music in my time off and I compose most of the songs on guitar. I've actually gone into the studio… — Scott Patterson
My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff. — Harvey Pekar
When I see somebody being mistreated, my eyes tear up and I want to stop it. And I believe that the best thing I can… — John Pomfret
I write because I can't imagine not writing. — Richard Price
I write because I write - as anyone in the arts does. You're a painter because you feel you have no choice but to paint.… — Richard Price
You don't have to know anything about music to understand what I write. Mine are simple melodies. — Harry Warren
I write a lot of songs people don't hear. I really just enjoy the process. I finish 'em all. I don't think there's a whole… — Bob Seger

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