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Write Quotes by Mary Oliver
- It's very important to write things down instantly, or you can lose the way you were thinking out a line. I have a rule that…
- I decided very early that I wanted to write. But I didn't think of it as a career. I didn't even think of it as…
- I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think…
- I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not…
- The poet must not only write the poem but must scrutinize the world intensely, or anyway that part of the world he or she has…
- He is exactly the poem I wanted to write.
- I want to write something so simply about love or about pain that even as you are reading you feel it and as you read…
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- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I grew up in a working-class family, so I guess you could say I write from what I know. — Andrea Arnold
- I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. — Isaac Asimov
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- If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word. — Margaret Atwood
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- A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb. — Wystan Hugh Auden