Write Quotes
10211 quotes by 5140 authors
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I mean if I'm in the middle of a field with my keyboard and some headphones and I feel inspired to write something, I'll just…
— Vanessa Brown
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Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published.
— Charles Keating
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I write plays for people who wouldn't be seen dead in the theatre.
— Barrie Keeffe
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I don't plan to write another science book, but I don't plan not to. I do enjoy writing histories, and taking subjects that are generally…
— Bill Bryson
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It's one thing you aspire to: someday, you'll be able to write a book.
— Thomas Keller
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That has to remain the principal reason for doing it, doesn't it? I know it's possible to write for money, and many very good writers…
— Jonathan Kellerman
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I can't read, I don't know how to write, my whole life has been one big fight.
— Albert King
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It would probably take me an hour to two to write it down, get the feel of it, and that's with quite a few changes.…
— Ben E King
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I've never tried to define my states of mind when I write.
— Adrienne Kennedy
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So, immediately after that, I got a commission to write a piece for chamber orchestra, and in working on the material I discovered it was…
— Joseph Jarman
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Sometimes I write them down in musical notation as a trigger to remind me about certain directions to go. Or I can be specific about…
— Harold Budd
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But my point is these Civil War songs were gruesome. The hatred that's so bad in this country today, and for the past 10 or…
— T-Bone Burnett
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You shouldn't even be writing this story if you haven't heard me play live. You can't write with the passion you receive until you see…
— Dick Dale
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With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully…
— Augusten Burroughs
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Judy couldn't move to Britain for family reasons, so I had to come to the States, and the U.S. government wouldn't give me a Green…
— Bernard Cornwell
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But then of course you reach a point where you have to say, I've got to figure out how this book's going to end. Otherwise,…
— Anthony Doerr
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It's too late for that - trying to second guess it. It's over. I'm worried about how to get the kids through school and still…
— Christopher Darden
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The only difference was one of them was trying to make a perfect cake and one of them was trying to write a great book.…
— Michael Cunningham
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For years, I sort of would try to write a story that somehow fit the title. And I don't think it happened for maybe another…
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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Winning the Pulitzer is wonderful and it's an honor and I feel so humbled and so grateful, but I think that I'll think of it…
— Jhumpa Lahiri
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