Write Quotes
10211 quotes by 5140 authors
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I find screenplays easy to write, my novels being very visual. You see what people look like. The physical action is described.
— John Irving
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A lot of writing I do on tour. I do a lot on airplanes. At home, I write a lot, obviously. When I write a…
— Pete Townshend
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Although I still write, research and investigate, my role is primarily that of a publisher and editor-in-chief who organises and directs other journalists.
— Julian Assange
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My dad would go to work every day and write in a room full of funny people. He enjoyed it. I know great writers who…
— Joss Whedon
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I always write my music based on what is going on in my life at the time.
— Janet Jackson
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I want to direct one day. I want to write my own thing and really be behind the scenes because you have more creative control.
— Madeline Zima
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I write about my life, choosing incidents that I think will be, for one reason or another, significant to people. Often because they may have…
— Harvey Pekar
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Writing is a spiritual practice in that people that have no spiritual path can undertake it and, as they write, they begin to wake up…
— Julia Cameron
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Grace is above praise and blame. I never read the bad stuff people write, but I never read the good stuff, either. Ever. I know…
— Suze Orman
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When it comes to lyrics, I just write down a lot of things, and only a very tiny fraction of it, I think, is any…
— Matt Berninger
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There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda. Propaganda can be written by…
— Wole Soyinka
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I went to college at NYU for acting, since acting was my dream from very young. I did a lot of hip-hop courses while I…
— Gina Rodriguez
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The horrible truth is that I am lazy and I am going to write and do bits that just hand themselves to me.
— Al Madrigal
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I want to write and direct and kind of do my own thing.
— Jessica Williams
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People will write whatever they want and make up whatever they want anyway.
— Mick Jones
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Any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.
— Richard Avedon
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I write about living, not dying.
— John Diamond
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I just always wrote songs as a side hobby. So it was sort of a natural thing to write comedy songs. But when I started…
— Kyle Dunnigan
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When I get a new script, I write a record of how many costume and make-up changes I have. I cross-check them against the shooting…
— Gina Bellman
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I feel like everything I write about is a gift I need to share because there is somebody out there going through a similar thing…
— Ashley Monroe
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