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Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army! — Hilaire Belloc
I believe that people should write biographies only about people they love, or understand, or both. Novels, on the other hand, are often better if… — Penelope Fitzgerald
Here was the freedom I desired, long sought-for, not yet known Freedom to write, to walk, to wander, freedom to climb hills, to pull a… — Daphne du Maurier
I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid, — Carl Hiaasen
There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list. — Umberto Eco
I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot… — Arnold Schoenberg
I write music, itâ€™s performed. After all, my music says it all. It doesnâ€™t need historical and hysterical commentaries. In the long run, any words… — Dmitri Shostakovich
Take your materials from what is around you - if you see a dandelion, write about that; if it's misty, write about the mist. The… — Masaoka Shiki
Far be it for me to have worked it out in any abstract way. I don't know why the bull and Mrs. May have to… — Flannery O'Connor
The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. . . . I… — William Butler Yeats
He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem. — Thomas Carlyle
The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess. — Bill McKibben
If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder. — Unknown Author
Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it. — Mark Twain
To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art. — Albert Camus
I write out of instinct. — Unknown Author
I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami. — Stephen King
Freedom of discussion is in England little else than the right to write or say anything which a jury of twelve shopkeepers think it expedient… — A. V. Dicey
I want to write about the great and powerful thing that listening is. And how we forget it. And how we don't listen to our… — Brenda Ueland
I have never written the music that was in my heart to write; perhaps I never shall with this brain and these fingers, but I… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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