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I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I simply was endeavoring… — William S. Burroughs
Speaking for myself, art differs from writing in that I never know what I'm going to paint until I paint it, so it's almost like… — William S. Burroughs
Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters. — Steve Buscemi
I never had any master plan about directing, and I don't really write. — Steve Buscemi
Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend. — Barbara Bush
I don't write letters anymore. — George H. W. Bush
I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write. — George W. Bush
I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their… — George W. Bush
The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law. — George W. Bush
And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses.… — Octavia Butler
They say the test of literary power is whether a man can write an inscription. I say, 'Can he name a kitten?' — Samuel Butler
I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants. — A. S. Byatt
I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite. — A. S. Byatt
I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers. — A. S. Byatt
I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about. — A. S. Byatt
I'd like to write the way Matisse paints. — A. S. Byatt
What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude. — A. S. Byatt
I think sometimes - not always - I write songs that are accessible. — David Byrne
Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life. — David Byrne
If I don't write to empty my mind, I go mad. — Lord Byron

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