Write Quotes
10211 quotes by 5140 authors
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Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose…
— Samuel Beckett
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After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity.
— George Ade
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I wouldn't be able to write a song like 'Someone Like You' and get someone else to sing it because it's so personal. It's like…
— Adele
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I can't write another breakup record. That would be a real cliche.
— Adele
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You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.
— Saul Bellow
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If I am constantly working, my relationships fail. So at least now I can have enough time to write a happy record. And be in…
— Adele
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The way I write my songs is that I have to believe what I'm writing about, and that's why they always end up being so…
— Adele
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I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both…
— John Berger
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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
— Hector Berlioz
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Be polite; write diplomatically; even in a declaration of war one observes the rules of politeness.
— Otto von Bismarck
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The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
— Otto von Bismarck
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Every Republican's voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they're proposing. Romney wants to let the -…
— Joe Biden
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Frontiersmen good and bad, gunmen as well as inspired prophets of the future, have been my camp companions. Thus, I know the country of which…
— Buffalo Bill
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As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels.
— Bjork
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Sometimes when I write lyrics there are images in them, usually on a quite simplistic level, like colors. But most often music comes first and…
— Bjork
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Stand-up is the only thing in which you actually write it, act it and direct it simultaneously, so it's actually a great theater exercise.
— Lewis Black
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The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.
— Judy Blume
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A lot of people have said to me, 'That's a great idea, running for president. You'll get booked for more speeches. You can write a…
— John Bolton
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Strangely, some songs you really don't want to write.
— David Bowie
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