Write Quotes
10211 quotes by 5140 authors
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I hear people talk in my head, and I write it down. I choose where they live and how they dress to be real.
— Nicole Holofcener
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The fact that I get to write and direct my own personal story is an amazing thing.
— Nicole Holofcener
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I study religion because I find it fascinating and problematic. But I struggle with the idea of what religion is, what being religious means. A…
— Elaine Pagels
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I was always afraid to write music.
— Dory Previn
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My songs have always had hope and perseverance in them - I never write songs that have no escape hatch, no positivity.
— Jakob Dylan
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I would be a terrible director, I could never write anything. One of my great strengths is that I know all of my weaknesses.
— Topher Grace
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I discovered that, in order to write a magnificent piece, you should shoot the images because once you are filming, you are writing the script…
— Wadah Khanfar
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Our society expects that everyone should learn to write, even though very few become professional writers. Similarly, I think that everyone should learn how to…
— Mitchel Resnick
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Being someone who had had a very difficult childhood, a very difficult adolescence - it had to do with not quite poverty, but close. It…
— Sherwin B. Nuland
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Neurotechnology may benefit from questioning what kinds of low-information-content signals we can read and write before we try to upload and download consciousness.
— Christopher deCharms
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I wanted to live the life my characters were living, so I rented a yacht and sailed from Naples to Capri before taking a helicopter…
— Brad Thor
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At least for me, it takes more knowledge to write fiction than nonfiction. At least about someplace that I begin with a lot of ignorance…
— William T. Vollmann
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I read and write for most of the day, but I do let myself be interrupted by real life. I enjoy going out with friends…
— William T. Vollmann
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I think a lot of times stereotypes come when there are disconnected white writers who maybe have two or three black friends, and they write…
— Dorian Missick
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I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically.
— Mark Takano
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When I started to write realistic, real fiction, the voices that were the strongest for me - the characters that I heard, the people that…
— Kenneth Bonert
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It costs so much to make films. With a novel, you can write the whole thing on a ream of paper from Staples for $4.
— Ruth Ozeki
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Many people have told me that my books read like novels. Perhaps this is because, when I write, I feel I am really there, so…
— Alison Weir
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My inspiration comes from God, so I always have to be open, kind of like being an antenna. I like to write songs people love.
— Brenda Russell
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No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play…
— Lajos Egri
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