Write Quotes
10211 quotes by 5140 authors
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To get the truth, you want to get your own heart to pound while you write.
— Robert McKee
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I like when the song starts to take over and you feel like you have to dance more than write.
— Carly Rae Jepsen
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My twenties were a write-off. It's a cruel illness, because you can't see it and you can hide it so well.
— Sarah Lancashire
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Any time something is written against me, I not only share the sentiment but feel I could do the job far better myself. Perhaps I…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
— Larry Hagman
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I want you to take a moment here and write down all the problems that are plaguing you at this moment, from big to small.…
— Jillian Michaels
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Ask yourself, "Why do I want to be in shape?" and write all ... Put your list everywhere to constantly remind yourself why you're doing…
— Jillian Michaels
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I tell people this: It's hard to write about walking in the park, but it's easy to write about a breakup.
— Kris Allen
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There is a communication of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk. And that is my answer when people ask…
— M.F.K. Fisher
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Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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He who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem.
— John Milton
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It's often wrong to write for specific actors because one ends up using what is least interesting about them, their mannerisms and habits. I prefer…
— Claude Chabrol
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I write with a mouse, because it has no psychological associations or memories or habits associated with it.
— Fred Frith
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The chances of a person breaking through their own habits and sloth and limited mind to actually write something that gets out there and matters…
— George Saunders
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I have found, for example, that if I have to write upon sum rather difficult topic, the best plan is to think about it with…
— Bertrand Russell
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How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is…
— Ernest Hemingway
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The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
— Jean Rostand
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Look, then, into thine heart, and write!
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the more you write…
— Virginia Woolf
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I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world.
— Jeanette Winterson
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