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I Write Quotes by Colm Toibin
- I write with a sort of grim determination to deal with things that are hidden and difficult, and this means, I think, that pleasure is…
- I am violently untidy. My desk is overcrowded. I write my first drafts in longhand in a long notebook using a plastic throwaway fountain pen.…
- The problem is once you've written the opening paragraph and worked out how the rest of the story will go in your head, there's nothing…
- The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as from the need…
More I Write Quotes
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. — Isaac Asimov
- Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very… — Kate Atkinson
- I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent. — Bill Ayers
- I write my lyrics into the computer and I hum my music into the dictaphone. — Sebastian Bach
- Humanity is a failed experiment, but I think I'm God and I'd like to start over. I don't want to die, I… — Roseanne Barr
- To say that I have an undisciplined mind would not be incorrect overall, but it's a little off the mark because I… — Roseanne Barr
- I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I,… — Samuel Beckett
- The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I'm writing about, and that's why they always end… — Adele
- Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music… — Bjork