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Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc. In a well functioning world, tools and agents… — Alan Kay
I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one. — Taylor Swift
I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly… — Taylor Swift
Sometimes I write about my own life. And sometimes I write about situations I see my friends going through. Sometimes I write about a scene… — Taylor Swift
I wanted to write a commentary on the Bible, to write about the Talmud, about celebration, about the great eternal subjects: love and happiness. — Elie Wiesel
My greatest disappointment is that I believe that those of us who went through the war and tried to write about it, about their experience,… — Elie Wiesel
I do not belong to this world. I continue to write everything in longhand. If I have to see something on the Internet, I ask… — Elie Wiesel
I used to work in the cotton fields a lot when I was young. There were a lot of African Americans working out there. A… — Willie Nelson
I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them. — Terry Pratchett
History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it. — Ferdinand Marcos
When I was 14, I would sit up in my room and write till my eyes would bleed. — Quincy Jones
If you want to write serious books, you must be ready to break the forms, break the forms. — V.S. Naipaul
If you write, produce and direct, you own things and see them through to the end. — Johnny Vegas
A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good… — David Mamet
When I realized I could write lyrics and let someone that I knew listen to them, but not know that the song was about them… — King Krule
I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place. — Jeff Kinney
I write in reverse: Rather than come up with a narrative and write jokes for that narrative, I write jokes independently of the narrative, then… — Jeff Kinney
I think the most satisfying part about filmmaking is seeing a production in full bloom. When I write, I write in isolation. — Jeff Kinney
I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the first… — John Irving
I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have a… — John Irving

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